NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.
By extension that means we can also reprogram alien satellites and probes. So why aren’t we??
Jeff Goldblum can upload a virus to take out an entire alien spacecraft. Probes are a piece of cake.
Jeff Goldblum is the alien.
Oh snap!
At least in the space odyssey series they had a weird kind of explanation for that approach. Unlike in Independence Day
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.
Oh yeah. That makes sense
We haven’t mastered SSH authentication via psionic tendrils
Look at this human still using SSH. I bet they still process on old PCs instead of PC2’s
I SSH authenticate stuff via my psionic tendril all the time ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
They should make a Star Trek movie about this!
Oh, wait…
And can even view Lemmy on it!
This is assuming that they would know and understand the code. Also, that nothing is encrypted but I guess encryption can be broken.
I would doubt they would have encrypted anything on the probe back in 1977 when it launched.
The ultimate security by obscurity. Do you have a 30m antenna? Can you point it exactly at the space ship with almost no error? Do you know what it’s code and protocols are? OK, please reprogram Voyager
Stick with the plan.
OP says reprogram all of the satellites. So I would assume that would include the modern ones with encryption as well.
I cannot confirm or deny any such arrangement exists with an existing alien species.
Call the FBI! We found the alien!
I would hope there is at least authentication of some kind…
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I would guess not. Any authentication scheme would just be another risk point to not be able to talk to the thing from earth.
But I’m just guessing.
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It is from the 1970’s
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I saw a movie with Will Smith where aliens used TCPv4 to communicate their systems. So, why not?
Probably not all of them. The Voyager probes were launched in the 70s and they don’t exactly need much encryption because they can only be programmed by someone with a massive transmitter.
You’ve been watching too much independence day huh.
All I can think of is alien adolescents reprogramming them to mess with humans. Fake invasion messages, alien memes. Like cowtipoing, but screwing with humans instead
As a member of the deep state, I can confirm this is true.
Thanks OP
Can you reprogram the satellites? Because it must only be easier for you to do it than aliens at least you understand human languages.
If he was an aerospace engineer maybe
The joke is on the aliens.
Voyager’s batteries are going to run out real soon, and then they won’t be able to reprogram anything, it’ll be just a huge paperweight.
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How many times have you commented.
Did you fall in the shower and hit your head before thinking this? It’s so incredibly dumb on multiple levels.
Voyager 1 isn’t even outside our solar system yet, at the moment of writing this it’s close to 15,200,000,000 miles from our sun, that’s 0.0026 light years.
the closest star to ours is Proxima Centauri, about 4.2 light years away, part of a triple star system called Alpha Centauri. It would take Voyager 1 over 16,000 years to reach it if it was going there, which it’s not. The first “close” (1.6 light-years) flyby of a star Voyager 1 will have is of Gliese 445, which is 17.1 light years away from us, in 40,000 years.
You seem to think that other stars are right at the edge of our solar system or something, that’s the only thing I can come up with that makes your post make any sense. Just because Voyager 1 is far away from us doesn’t mean it’s close to anything else. It has barely moved in astronomical distances, we will continue to be the closest thing to it for another 20,000 years.
Take your angry hormones outside kid. We’re trying to have a friendly discussion here.
Voyager 1 has been in interstellar space since 2012.
You have a lot of great things to offer this conversation, I’m not sure why all the aggression was needed.
There isn’t any aliens anywhere that we know of so it doesn’t matter. This is a shower thought not a factual paper.
