Entire church begins two-day journey across Swedish city of Kiruna
www.bbc.com
The landmark 113-year-old wooden building is at risk from subsidence and will be moved 5km on giant rolling platforms.
  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    22 hours ago

    Yup.

    Backstory is that Kiruna is a mining town way up north in Sweden, and the mine has hollowed out the town to the degree that they kind of need to get stuff out of the way.

    Some historically significant buildings get spared in the move, not all though.

    Money comes from mines being a profitable affair

  • TheRealKuni@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    22 hours ago

    Pretty amazing what humans can accomplish when they want to work together. Especially when the incentive is valuable stuff underground.

    • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      20 hours ago

      Don’t worry, as soon as super-orbital sources are secured, none of us poors’ll be useful anymore.

      Beltalowda leva xox!