In the future, a wedge-shaped building will rise from the ground at a secret location on Tasmania, not an ordinary building, but a "black box", a black box on earth that records the process of the destruction of human civilization.
Will human civilization be destroyed? No one can answer that, but if human civilization is destroyed, we need to let subsequent civilizations understand why, so we need to build such a black box. Before the birth of human civilization, were there other prehistoric civilizations on Earth? This is a very interesting topic, many people talk about it, but unfortunately so far there is no trace of the existence of prehistoric civilizations that we have found, but human beings still have not denied the existence of prehistoric civilizations, after all, the history of the earth is too long.
The Earth is 4.6 billion years old, and even from the australopithecus period, human civilization is only a short 3 million years old, so in terms of time span, it is possible that other prehistoric civilizations appeared before humans.
So why can't we find evidence about prehistoric civilizations? It is also because the history of the Earth is so long that billions of years' time spans will erase all traces. Looking back, if one day human civilization is destroyed, will subsequent civilizations also look for traces of our existence in the same way that we search for prehistoric civilizations? Definitely. Since this is the case, we may as well make their search process easier, leaving them a "black box", a "black box of the earth" that records the causes of the destruction of human civilization.
The term "black box" is not unfamiliar to us, because the tail of each passenger aircraft is equipped with such a device to record the flight data of the aircraft, in the event of a crash, in addition to the search and rescue of personnel, the most important thing is to find this "black box".
Black box scientific name electronic flight recorder, in fact, it is neither black, nor a box, the black box records all the dialogue records of the pilot from take-off to crash, as well as the various performance and technical parameters of the aircraft during the flight, through the analysis of the data in the black box, people can infer the cause of the flight accident, and use this as a basis for troubleshooting the hidden dangers before the future flight mission, to avoid the development of the fault into an accident. Since a black box can be installed on the plane to record the cause of the crash of the plane, then we can also create a black box for the earth, so that future generations can understand the destruction process of human civilization.
Is there a crisis in human civilization? There is no crisis to be discussed, but there are some problems.
According to the data, since the signing of the Paris Agreement, the earth's ecological environment has not been improved, but has become worse, the earth's average temperature has not declined, but continued to rise, and the polar ice shelf has become unstable. From the perspective of biological data, the extinction of species on earth also has a tendency to accelerate. Against this backdrop, dominated by the University of Tasmania, a "black box of the earth" will begin construction. According to published information, this "earth black box" is about the size of a bus, which automatically collects and records data related to temperature, ocean acidity, land use, armament expansion, energy consumption and population growth, as well as news, posts and conference announcements related to these data.
The main body of the earth black box is made of 7.5 cm thick steel plate, and the interior is filled with hard disks used to record data, once the human civilization is destroyed, then the subsequent civilization can understand the entire process of human civilization to destruction through the data in the black box.
That sounds good, but does this stuff really work? Judging from the information released so far, this thing is indeed very strong, but is it really strong enough to withstand hundreds of millions of years of corrosion? If all traces of human civilization were erased by time, it would seem that this black box would not be able to survive alone. Even if it survives, can it really be found by subsequent civilizations? After hundreds of millions of years, it may be hidden deep underground, or submerged under the deep sea, and the possibility of being discovered is minimal.
More frightening than "undetectable" is "being discovered prematurely."
It is not enough to be discovered by subsequent civilizations, it is important to ensure that subsequent civilizations can recognize the value of this thing after discovering the black box. Civilization developed step by step, just imagine, if prehistoric civilization left us such a black box, and we discovered it during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, what would happen? We simply can't understand what this thing is, we will think of it as a "temple", ask skilled craftsmen to dismantle these hard disks to pieces, and eventually become powder in the midst of repeated wars and dynastic changes. Therefore, the real meaning of this earth black box is not so much a database left for subsequent civilizations as a warning pillar for ourselves.