They lay over one hundred thousand feet of thick copper wire, connecting Edison's power station to hundreds of homes and businesses throughout New York.
There's enough magma in the volcano system underneath the surface today to fill the entire Grand Canyon 11 times over, or bury the entire Netherlands with one full kilometer of molten rock.
It says that if all other factors are equal, a body exposed to air decomposes twice as fast as one immersed in water and eight times as fast as one buried in earth.