[dublo7]

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

[floatingatoll]

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

[bellyfullofbac]

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.

[soheil]

or a poorly run extra terrestrial IT department

[floatingatoll]

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

[jdmichal]

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

[dylan604]

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

[floatingatoll]

Solar eclipses as chaos monkey events.