Comment on NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 6 months agoAt least in the space odyssey series they had a weird kind of explanation for that approach. Unlike in Independence Day
PoopingCough@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oh yeah. That makes sense