{"id":132041,"date":"2021-12-09T03:30:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T11:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/scientists-are-building-a-black-box-to-record-the-end-of-civilization"},"modified":"2021-12-09T03:30:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T11:30:01","slug":"scientists-are-building-a-black-box-to-record-the-end-of-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/scientists-are-building-a-black-box-to-record-the-end-of-civilization","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Are Building a \u201cBlack Box\u201d to Record the End of Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XvuM3DjvYf0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If \u2014 or when \u2014 human civilization collapses, what will remain? Maybe parts of some cities. Or the Statue of Liberty, a la \u201cPlanet of the Apes.\u201d Overall, though, there might not be a lot of evidence left behind about what humanity accomplished \u2014 or what resulted in its downfall.<\/p>\n<p>One team of researchers wants to change that. Their solution? A massive, indestructible box that\u2019ll record scientific data to give future civilizations insight on how exactly humanity fell.<\/p>\n<p>The project, dubbed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthsblackbox.com\/\" class=\"\">Earth\u2019s Black Box<\/a>, will be an immense steel monolith installed in a remote location in Tasmania. It\u2019s akin to the black boxes that are designed to survive airplane crashes and provide investigators valuable data on what led to the disaster \u2014 except on a planetary scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If \u2014 or when \u2014 human civilization collapses, what will remain? Maybe parts of some cities. Or the Statue of Liberty, a la \u201cPlanet of the Apes.\u201d Overall, though, there might not be a lot of evidence left behind about what humanity accomplished \u2014 or what resulted in its downfall. One team of researchers wants [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}