Earth’s Black Box
On an empty plain in Tasmania there now sits a metallic structure filled with storage drives that is recording "every step we take" toward climate-change catastrophe. Its creators — marketing communications company Clemenger BBDO in collaboration with University of Tasmania researchers — describe it as "Earth's Black Box".
Perhaps I'm too cynical, but I predict that the project is abandoned within 20 years and this turns into an architectural curiosity sitting in the middle of nowhere. I was going to say 10 years, but I'll be charitable.
More info: cnet.com, EarthsBlackBox.com
Perhaps I'm too cynical, but I predict that the project is abandoned within 20 years and this turns into an architectural curiosity sitting in the middle of nowhere. I was going to say 10 years, but I'll be charitable.
More info: cnet.com, EarthsBlackBox.com
Comments
They must have run out of data to falsify.
Posted by Virtual in Carnate on 01/04/22 at 07:50 AM
My first impression is of the alien's slab in "2001: A Space Odyssey".
Posted by KDP on 01/04/22 at 11:54 AM
Their point, Alex, is that we may not have 20 years.
Posted by Richard Bos on 01/08/22 at 09:18 AM
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