Earth's Black Box: 32ft steel monolith will be built in Tasmania this YEAR and filled with hard drives documenting our climate change actions as an 'unbiased account of the events that lead to the demise
If humanity is obliterated by climate change, how will we even know it's happened?
That's the question being answered by Australian scientists, who are building Earth's Black Box – a 32-foot-long steel monolith that captures data about our planet.
It'll be filled with hard drives that constantly document climate change, giving an 'unbiased account of events' that lead to Earth's demise.
There is nothing, I think, so exasperating as that sort of falsehood which affects not to see what is quite palpable.
Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas (1864)
9 comments:
So the hard drives monitor the world's climate change; analyse the data, draw conclusions and archive the results. All on their own without human intervention. So they are unbiased. Amazing! I didn't know hard drives could do this.
Tammly - obvious nonsense isn't it? But published nonsense.
I hope this box has excellent humidity control. Or maybe I don't.
decnine - and a sustainable power supply such as solar panels.
And an operating system (with suitable hardware, screen, keyboard & pointing device) to display the contents...
Dave - and engineers to update everything and fix whatever goes wrong and...
Probably not, because it's the updates which usually break things!
I wonder how long it will be before they quietly dismantle it, realising nothing is happening and nobody is demising?
Dave - good point, they will need engineers to sort that too.
Bucko - we'll never know, but one day somebody could discover it quietly rusting away behind an old barbed wire fence.
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