When Will the World end?

No, this isn’t another religious doomsday bashing exercise but then, I think that our fellows on the other side of the reality fence might just have a valid point. Is the world going to end and when will it end?

Well, we have  (or should have) all heard of time capsules being lobbed into space before and, as it happens, “a new collaborative project in Tasmania is planning to build a black box for the planet, observing and recording data on the worsening climate crisis; as well as our efforts to avert climate change, or lack thereof.”

Called the Earth’s Black Box, it measures thirty by twelve by nine feet, with a three inch thick steel shell and looks like some giant monolith sticking out of the ground. It’s choc full of all sorts of recording and communications equipment and powered by solar panels of course.

Earth Black Box (earthsblackbox.com)

What purpose such a monstrosity is going to serve is anybody’s guess since, if and when the world does end, there won’t be anyone around to analyze the data in order to see where we all went wrong in trying to preserve our fragile existence.

As T.S. Eliot once wrote.... "This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but with a whimper".