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This Mysterious, Indestructible 'Black Box' Will Tell The Future What Happened to Us
https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | Dec 7, 2021 | PETER DOCKRILL

Posted on 12/07/2021 9:43:47 AM PST by Red Badger

Illustration of Earth's Black Box. (Earth's Black Box)

At a distant end of the Earth – hidden somewhere on the remote Australian island of Tasmania – a strange structure is about to witness and record the end of the world as we know it.

The project, called Earth's Black Box, is a giant steel installation, soon to be filled with hard drives powered by solar panels, each of them documenting and preserving a stream of real-time scientific updates and analysis on the gloomiest issues the world faces.

Information related to climate change, species extinction, environmental pollution, and impacts on health will all be chronicled in the monolithic structure – so that if some future society might one day discover the archive, they'll be able to piece together what happened to our planet.

"Unless we dramatically transform our way of life, climate change and other man-made perils will cause our civilization to crash," the Earth's Black Box website explains.

"Earth's Black Box will record every step we take towards this catastrophe. Hundreds of data sets, measurements and interactions relating to the health of our planet will be continuously collected and safely stored for future generations."

""Illustration of Earth's Black Box. (Earth's Black Box)

In a sense, the box, which evokes the brutalist design of Norway's famous 'Doomsday Vault', actually serves a somewhat complementary purpose.

While the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a fortress designed to protect a vital backup of the world's seeds in case the worst ever happens, Earth's Black Box is conceived as an ongoing record of the world's trajectory towards a dire predicament.

"The idea is if the Earth does crash as a result of climate change, this indestructible recording device will be there for whoever's left to learn from that," Jim Curtis, executive creative director at marketing agency Clemenger BBDO, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

"It's also there to hold leaders to account – to make sure their action or inaction is recorded."

The project – a collaboration between Clemenger BBDO, creative agency The Glue Society, and researchers at the University of Tasmania – is due to be completed in its undisclosed location in early 2022, but the box's systems are already partially active, in that they are 'live recording' environmental updates in a beta test.

Part of the point of the exercise, the box's makers say, is to help nudge humanity away from doomsday-like scenarios, with the mere existence of the installation hopefully encouraging today's society to act more progressively and responsibly in terms of climate action and environmental stewardship.

"" Illustration of Earth's Black Box. (Earth's Black Box)

"When people know they're being recorded, it does have an influence on what they do and say," The Glue Society's Jonathan Kneebone told the ABC.

"That's our role if anything, to be something in the back of everyone's mind."

While some might belittle Earth's Black Box as a PR stunt designed to capture people's attention – as opposed to a serious scientific documentation project – there's no doubting the world urgently needs more attention and action on these issues, no matter how those eyeballs are secured.

In a world where ice sheets are destabilizing in response to unprecedented levels of global warming, where greenhouse gas emissions are headed the wrong way, where water is running out, and where animals are vanishing with such speed that scientists say we've entered our planet's sixth mass extinction, this is not the time to look away.

"The purpose of the device is to provide an unbiased account of the events that lead to the demise of the planet, hold accountability for future generations, and inspire urgent action," the Earth's Black Box makers say.

"How the story ends is completely up to us."


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To: Red Badger
"The purpose of the device is to provide an unbiased account of the events that lead to the demise of the planet, hold accountability for future generations, and inspire urgent action," the Earth's Black Box makers say.
IOW, panic porn, regurgitated by a media shill.

41 posted on 12/07/2021 10:56:07 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Louis Tully


42 posted on 12/07/2021 11:01:12 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Red Badger

“Unless we dramatically transform our way of life, climate change and other man-made perils will cause our civilization to crash.”
“The purpose of the device is to provide an unbiased account of the events that lead to the demise of the planet”

Oh, yeah. No bias there whatsoever, right?
I mean, the entire project assumes as fact the Earth is absolutely going to be destroyed and it will absolutely be our fault.
No bias at all.


43 posted on 12/07/2021 11:05:08 AM PST by servo1969
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To: Red Badger

Thrust into the air, with a slight bend now downward and to the left. The “Peyronie’s” Memorial and massage parlor.


44 posted on 12/07/2021 11:11:48 AM PST by John S Mosby ( Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Red Badger
each of them documenting and preserving a stream of real-time scientific updates and analysis on the gloomiest issues the world faces.

It will run out of storage during Biden's term.

45 posted on 12/07/2021 11:13:40 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Candor7

Oh, man ............


46 posted on 12/07/2021 11:13:47 AM PST by glennaro (Although I don't believe in "big conspiracies", neither do I believe in "big coincidences")
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To: Red Badger

What idiocy— what if there is NO-ONE to discover it, and furthermore they probably couldn’t figure out the software, assuming they aren’t “inheritors”. Rubber science again— like a stupid doomsday Star Trek show. Supposed to “guilt us” into what-— something else that isn’t provable.


47 posted on 12/07/2021 11:14:17 AM PST by John S Mosby ( Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Red Badger

Trail Closed

https://rumble.com/vqb4mp-trail-closed.html


48 posted on 12/07/2021 11:24:40 AM PST by aces (and )
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To: z3n

https://rumble.com/vqb4mp-trail-closed.html

Trail closed..smile


49 posted on 12/07/2021 11:25:22 AM PST by aces (and )
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To: Red Badger

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50 posted on 12/07/2021 11:49:00 AM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Leaning Right

Geez the “crazed sex poodle” was stupid...

That’s why he flunked out of divinity school.

This is why Tipper divorced him- she knew about the ‘massages’ before it came out in the newspapers.

SOMEONE wanted him to stay down and shut up... that’s why they released it.


51 posted on 12/07/2021 11:54:35 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Candor7; PLMerite

Once you go blackbox, you never go backbox.


52 posted on 12/07/2021 12:05:48 PM PST by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: KobraKai

OMG, I get that reference!


53 posted on 12/07/2021 12:07:45 PM PST by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: Red Badger
Will the future be able to read it?

Once upon a time, this was the leading language of 'civilization'/

54 posted on 12/07/2021 12:17:36 PM PST by ASOC (This space for rent)
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To: ASOC

True, and there are people who can still read it...................


55 posted on 12/07/2021 12:23:57 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Sounds like another Biosphere II stunt. I doubt any of it will survive the ravages of time.


56 posted on 12/07/2021 12:24:17 PM PST by x
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To: Lazamataz

Well. that brought on the laughbox!


57 posted on 12/07/2021 12:27:20 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: x

Somebody will cover it in graffiti......................


58 posted on 12/07/2021 12:28:18 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: glennaro

Well, boxing day after Christmas is coming up you know!


59 posted on 12/07/2021 12:30:12 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Red Badger
"The project – a collaboration between Clemenger BBDO, creative agency The Glue Society, and researchers at the University of Tasmania"

Who?

"The developers estimate that storage will run out in 30 to 50 years, according to the ABC."

HAW HAW HAW! Freaking Echel0awn>5Geyes is 60 years old and performs the same useless-as-t!ts 'function'.

What would be a damn shame if some Tasmanian tourists tested out how mobile this rusted turd drive really is with some grapple hooks. Gosh. Yeah. That would be a damn shame.

60 posted on 12/07/2021 1:06:06 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least ONE of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J, and MERCK)
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