Just as aircraft have a "black box", which is actually bright orange, that can be recovered in the event of any mishap to determine what happened, the earth has recently had a black box installed in a remote area of the Australian state of Tasmania. The black box is for anyone to find in the future after humans have destroyed our planet and ourselves. The focus is on climate change.
The black box is heavily armored and is set in a remote and geologically secure location. But what I question is the computer technology being used to record data. Far in the future this is going to mean nothing, even if it is accessible.
Do you remember in "Archeological Representation" we saw that the more technically advanced a society is the more distorted will be it's archeological representation. Here is a link to the original posting:
www.markmeekeconomics.blogspot.com/2012/11/archeological-representation.html?m=0
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