Earth's Black Box

So you hit the nail on the head, and unsurprisingly, you will not be surprised when you hear this, that this has something to do with the climate crisis.

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Oh, yes, of course.

Like, yeah, like of course, of course.

So basically, we are building a giant steel black box in a paddock [laughs]-

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in western Tasmania just in case we wipe ourselves out.

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Oh, no.

So this is like the seed vault, but a, a, a document.

It's so funny you say that.

It's like an in- like an incident report.

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It is so...

We're gonna get to that 'cause I literally have that written down-

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but we're getting ahead ourselves.

But yes.

Okay, okay, I'll stop.

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Like, your mind's going in all the right directions, 100%.

So on paper, it's exactly as you identified.

It's meant to be like the climate equivalent [laughs] of the airplane flight recorder, and so a crash-proof monolith, [laughs] if you will-