Because I Am Bored

Re:Because I Am Bored by dublo7 on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @03:56PM (#28146931)

Imagine the first object from another civilization flies by Earth and it's just an off site backup.

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Re:Because I Am Bored by floatingatoll on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @03:58PM (#28146960)

That would either be a godsend or a civilization-ending event!

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Re:Because I Am Bored by bellyfullofbac on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @08:58PM (#28150342)

How would you even get the information out of it? It surely won't have USB? (Despite the claim of being universal). And will it be in Unicode?

I guess one can use statistics to figure out their alphabet.. or alphabets, if they have several languages on this planet.

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Re:Because I Am Bored by soheil on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @04:11PM (#28147112)

or a poorly run extra terrestrial IT department

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Re:Because I Am Bored by floatingatoll on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @04:20PM (#28147213)

“Hi, we’re from the Kribbofrishcozc civIT department, and we’re commandeering your sun to perform integrity tests of our backups.”

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Re:Because I Am Bored by jdmichal on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @04:19PM (#28147200)

ET IT... I wonder if they still have bastard operators from hell?

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Re:Because I Am Bored by dylan604 on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @04:33PM (#28147388)

I wonder if they've developed any better diagnosis plans that "turn it off, then on again"?

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Re:Because I Am Bored by floatingatoll on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @05:14PM (#28147848)

Solar eclipses as chaos monkey events.

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