Comment Aliens with God-like Omniscience Go Cowtipping! (Score 1) 527
See what happens when you mix tequila benders and cheesy movies like Independence Day?
Because, you know, twenty million years ago when ET sent that virus radio signal, they just knew we'd be using Microsoft Windows XP SP2 with a graphics rendering engine vulnerability that would allow them to gain full remote code execution access if they merely exploited the distributed internet computing Seti-at-Home program. With this brilliant forsight, the ETs decided to cause widespread computing mayhem and thereby distrupt Christmas internet sales and harm the economy of an as yet non-existant species on a planet in the ass end of the galaxy twenty million years hence.
Because, you know, twenty million years ago when ET sent that virus radio signal, they just knew we'd be using Microsoft Windows XP SP2 with a graphics rendering engine vulnerability that would allow them to gain full remote code execution access if they merely exploited the distributed internet computing Seti-at-Home program. With this brilliant forsight, the ETs decided to cause widespread computing mayhem and thereby distrupt Christmas internet sales and harm the economy of an as yet non-existant species on a planet in the ass end of the galaxy twenty million years hence.
