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NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites. (lemm.ee)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 6 months ago (2 children)

By extension that means we can also reprogram alien satellites and probes. So why aren't we??

[–] radix 48 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Jeff Goldblum can upload a virus to take out an entire alien spacecraft. Probes are a piece of cake.

[–] moistclump 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Jeff Goldblum is the alien.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Oh snap!

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

At least in the space odyssey series they had a weird kind of explanation for that approach. Unlike in Independence Day

[–] PoopingCough 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Actually in ID4 there was an explanation. Basically all of humanity's computer tech came from reverse engineering alien tech. So our computers worked with theirs because they were based on theirs. Maybe this isn't this best logic, but they did at least have an in universe explanation.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi 3 points 6 months ago

Oh yeah. That makes sense

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

We haven't mastered SSH authentication via psionic tendrils

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Look at this human still using SSH. I bet they still process on old PCs instead of PC2’s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I SSH authenticate stuff via my psionic tendril all the time ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)