Earth’s black box will record our civilization’s downfall from climate catastrophe

The “Earth’s black box” will record our civilization’s downfall from environmental and climate catastrophe. Now it’s creators, the non-profit Rouser Lab, says it will be installed in December later this year at a remote location in Tasmania, Australia.

The inspiration for Earth’s black box comes from an aeroplane’s flight recorder. Those are also known as a “black box” and they store sound and various data from the plane within a small box that’s both fire- and crash-proof to help investigators understand what went wrong.

Rouser Lab hopes that their invention could help future civilizations learn from the data stored inside the “black box” so that they themselves could avoid repeating the same devastating mistakes that we—their predecessors—did.

Earth’s black box will be 16 meters long and 4 meters high and will be built from both steel and concrete so that it can withstand earthquakes, fire, floods, and other natural catastrophes. It will be powered by 36 solar panels that are fitted on top of its roof under layers of toughened glass. These solar panels will give power to the internal drives that will record and store a plethora of data sets, measurements, and interactions relating to the health of our planet from space agencies, weather agencies and universities. The actual box hasn’t been built yet, but it has been recording and storing data since COP26 in 2021, according to Rouser Lab.

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.

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.

How the story ends is completely up to us.

Only one thing is certain, your actions, inactions, and interactions are now being recorded.

Rouser Lab is also working on a project called Climate S.O.S. which will be a 50 meters tall “techno-obelisk”. The tower will transmit a distress call out into space in the hope that an advanced alien civilization might discover it and save us from climate collapse.

Hopefully, there might exist a friendly space-faring alien civilization out there, that hasn’t collapsed from climate change (which most potential alien civilizations seem destined to do, according to a bleak study), and could be willing to help us save ourselves from the coming environmental collapse. Because right now, that seems just as likely as the 1.5 degrees climate target.