My primary inspiration for this final project stemmed from the Museum of Civilization observed in Station Eleven. As a whole, I felt like preserving apocalyptic culture was an important aspect that I learned from this class. I aimed to do that through a fictitious apocalyptic event in the archive that follows. In researching for ideas in generating this archive, I generated a lot of my ideas from the National Archive website (America's Historical Documents | National Archives).
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Images of the Apocalypse:Image of the solar flare obtained by NASA eight minutes before "The Impact" reached earth.
With the atmosphere being significantly damaged after "The Impact", areas that were once previously temperate in climate turned into deserts.
As temperate areas began to dry out, larger populations struggled for sources of clean water as fresh water supplies began to diminish.
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With global temperature rising after "The Impact", ice began to melt at unprecedented rates. This caused massive amounts of flooding around the world in coastal regions.
As ice continued to melt, the salinity in the ocean began to be drastically altered. Some species of fish could not adapt to these changes.
With "The Impact" wiping out essentially all technology on earth, blackouts on earth became much more frequent and widespread.
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Front page of USA Today almost 30 days after "The Impact".
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Declassified letter from the Chief Scientist at NASA to the President the day before "The Impact".
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