'Earth Black Box', a project to create a black box to convey that 'human beings were here' after the destruction of humankind



A project to prepare a black box that summarizes information that makes it possible to know that 'human beings were here' even after the destruction of human beings in an inorganic object such as

the monolith that appears in ' 2001: A Space Odyssey' is 'Earth. Black Box '.

Earth Black Box
https://www.earthsblackbox.com/

Earth is getting a black box to record our climate change actions, and it's already started listening --ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-12-06/climate-change-earth-black-box-recorder/100621778

Indestructible'Black Box' will record our planet's demise in minute detail | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/earth-black-box-records-planet-demise

The black box mounted on the airplane is for storing records useful for investigating the cause of an aviation accident, and the project to make an earth version of this is 'Earth Black Box'. The Earth Black Box is planned to be built on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia, and is a steel building measuring 4 meters long x 10 meters wide x 3 meters deep.



It seems that Malta, Norway, Qatar, etc. were also listed as candidate sites for construction of the Earth Black Box, but it will be built in Tasmania in consideration of geopolitical and geological stability and catastrophic climatic changes. Has been decided.

The official website of the Earth Black Box states, 'Unless humans change their lifestyles dramatically, climate change and other human dangers will disrupt our civilization,' especially the climate. There is a wording that conveys a sense of crisis about fluctuations.

In fact, according to the 'Emission Gap Report ' released by the United Nations in October 2021, it is predicted that the average temperature will rise by 2.7 degrees by 2100 due to the progress of global warming, and this temperature change is 1.5. It is necessary to reduce the world's annual greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2030 in order to keep it within ~ 2 degrees Celsius.

Jim Curtis of Clemenger BBDO , Australasia's largest marketing company involved in the construction of the Earth Black Box, said the project was run entirely for non-profit purposes and was designed with a focus on functionality. Is appealing. In fact, 7.5 cm steel plates will be used for the outer walls of the Earth Black Box, and construction worker Jonathan Niebourne explains, 'It's designed to last longer than humanity.'

A large number of storage drives are stored inside the Earth Black Box, all of which can be connected to the Internet. In addition, all electricity is supplied from the solar panels on the roof of the structure, so even if the local power grid goes down, it can be supplied by itself. During the day, the Earth Black Box will download science-related data via the Internet, basically collecting climate change-related materials.



According to the project, the data collected by Earth Black Box can be roughly classified into the following two types.

-Measured values of land and sea temperatures, ocean acidification, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, species extinction, land use changes, population, military spending, energy consumption, etc.
· News and contextual data on major conferences such as newspaper headlines, social media posts, Conference of the Parties (COP) Climate Change Conferences, etc.

'If the Earth collapses as a result of climate change, this indestructible recording device entrusts the knowledge left to learn from the Earth's collapse,' Curtis said of the Earth Black Box.

Construction of the building is scheduled to begin in mid-2022, but data collection at the Earth Black Box has started since the 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) held in November 2021. I am. 'By using compression and archiving, we have enough storage capacity to store the data for the next 30 to 50 years,' said a project representative. In addition to collecting data in storage, the project aims to enable longer-term data storage by engraving information on steel plates.

In addition, the developer of Earth Black Box said, 'In addition, it will be equipped with a heartbeat to send statistical data to space at long intervals and to inform people in the field that Earth Black Box is collecting data. We are considering the functions of the above, 'he said, saying that he is considering unique functions other than data collection.

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