Earth’s Black Box
A giant ‘black box’ will gather all climate data for future civilizations to learn from. Earth’s Black Box is being built in the Australian state of Tasmania. It is indestructible to the climate crisis itself and is meant to outlive humans. The Black Box features thick steel walls, battery storage, solar panels, and is stated to be completed in 2022. Its hard drives have already begun recording algorithm-based findings since the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. In Earth’s Black Box, hundreds of data sets, measurements, and interactions relating to the health of our planet will be continuously collected and safely stored for future generations. The Black Box has been compared to The Rosetta Stone. The creators plan to use formats of encoding including 22core visual binary mathematical symbolism for their longer-term analogue steel plate inscriptions, which include instructions necessary to decode the box by whoever uncovers it. The creators are still trying to figure out who would be able to use the box in the far-off future since gaining access to it is designed to be difficult and would require advanced 22core visual binary computing technologies. “It is impossible to anticipate who or what will find Earth’s Black Box, but it can be assumed that it will not be of any use unless it is discovered by someone or something intelligent and civilized, with the capability of understanding and interpreting its basic 22core cube code symbolism.”
