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SciFi movies and pathetic misconceptions of tech failing for the story line.
RJSV:
...but seems like, (if he could reverse engineer the comments, buried in the code), should be an Alien's nerd referring to Cheetos, or some other popular crap.
coppercone2:
I don't see why the thing in ID4 was so unrealistic. It could be as simple that the aliens setup an ad hock cyber attack on satellites based on what they usually do, if you watch the sequel (not as bad as people say, I enjoyed it just as much as the first one in the movie theater).
It clearly showed that the aliens were a intergalactic menace. If they did the same attack for the last 50 civilizations they destroyed, why would you change your methods and get paranoid all the sudden about people still on CMOS? Intergalactic conquest is like a day job for them.
I am sure everyone here has heard "its good enough, this works, stop worrying about it" about a host of technological things at work. For some reason people seem to think that interstellar aliens would have a vastly different risk matrix then humans for some reason. Kind of like arguing about if you need to put a fuse on a circuit, you damn well know (if you were in the industry) that some people have been winging it for many years and they see it like asking them to put a safety helmet on for walking in the driveway. Its super easy to get made fun of for taking precautions lol
Its like a pest control guy getting paranoid about above average intelligence rats that are gonna coordinate an attack on him some how. And its kind of like prewar conjecture about the Russian military's projected 'success' in the Ukraine war that was on some places online last year
vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: intabits on April 07, 2023, 11:03:04 am ---I haven't re-watched this piece of crap since about the time that it first appeared, so my recollection may be erroneous: "Independence Day (1996)"
The Earth super-geek (Goldblum) was able to take a captured/downed alien space craft, and somehow reverse engineer it's giga-advanced alien technology (all with zero documentation of course), identify a vulnerability, design a virus to exploit it, compile/build it into alien machine code, design/build an electrically compatible interface to the alien ship, correctly interact with the alien interface protocol to upload his virus, and use it to gain operational control of the craft.
And of course, doing all this while causing no damage to the ship, having all this work on the very first attempt, with his only error being a minor bit-flip that got forward/reverse arse-about.
Then skillfully operating the craft to defeat the bad guys...
--- End quote ---
I seem to remember that the spacecraft was at Area 51, & it was inferred that it was from Roswell, circa 1947, so scientists had near 50 years to analyse the craft.
Remember, it was flyable---the craft that was seen to crash that the alien was captured from was wrecked.
All that said, you would think alien technology and/or operating protocols would have progressed in 49 years, & that they would notice an extra one turning up inside the mothership, especially as it would have looked weird with a massive nuclear missile "bodged" onto it.
David Hess:
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on April 08, 2023, 02:20:09 am ---All that said, you would think alien technology and/or operating protocols would have progressed in 49 years, & that they would notice an extra one turning up inside the mothership, especially as it would have looked weird with a massive nuclear missile "bodged" onto it.
--- End quote ---
Without an external threat, the aliens would have no reason to track their own returning ships. If the IFF says friendly, then that is good enough.
Hardly any series shows progress in technology. It is almost always overlooked.
coppercone2:
and scavangers or not, they might be mostly busy just mining and building stuff between occasional conquests. I don't think they said the scout ship reported back, it just went missing. For all we know the last time they had to do any conquering was 500 years ago, possibly a different generation did it, so they had nothing but simulators.
And look how fast things de-fund when the threat goes away. Everyone is always saying that the military is in a sad shape compared to the cold war times when they were expecting something, and that was only 30 years ago. Scavangers are usually greedy IMO, and lazy. Could be stupid assholes that got lucky.
Actually I remember now the second movie did say they were fighting for a while
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