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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites. (lemm.ee)

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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] 47 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.

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

Jeff Goldblum is the alien.

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

Oh snap!

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 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.

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

Oh yeah. That makes sense