by John Galt » Thu Mar 14, 2019 3:00 pm
they are "black boxes" kind of like "black sites". they were secretive and used by the military to gather information. it was a colloquial term (and those boxes used to be black to be non reflective and they housed radar and other top-secret things), and then when civilians started used them they were made bright orange because it's not supposed to be secretive. they've always been orange, since the first black box was installed on civilian airplanes
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