Earth’s health to be recorded by black box

Rouser Lab is building an “indestructible, self-powered” monolithic
doomsday tracker in Australia, for future generations – designed
to document humanity’s spiral into environmental destruction

Rendering of how
device should
look in situ

Indian
Ocean
A S I A

Bass Strait
AUSTRALIA
TASMANIA
Canberra
Melbourne
Hobart
Queenstown
60 miles
100km

Earth’s Black Box:
Built just west of town
near remote airfield

EARTH’S BLACK BOX

Due: Dec
2026

Toughened
glass protects
solar panels

Stainless steel
backing sheet

Concrete
roof panel

Servers
Store masses
of environmental
data sets from
space agencies,
weather
agencies, and
universities –
continuously
gathering
statistics to form
Earth index

Power room
Manages
solar and
geothermal
energy sources

Inner
structural
frame

Concrete
inner shell
layer

Steel panels
(will rust
to blend
more into
landscape)

Sources: Gizmodo, Rouser Lab, Earth’s Black Box
Picture: Room 11
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