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*** Only from a human point of view. Who's to say they didn't start with a ''trinary'' system (1, 0, -1) and went from there. Then you'd have to understand their language and thinking patterns. Our machine logic may be completely different from theirs.
**** Any numerical system can ultimately be broken down into binary. Trinary systems aren't more complex, they just have a highly level of data compression. Hexadeceminal is just a way of compression binary options. And just because our machine logic may be different doesn't mean it is. Clearly it wasn't as QED.
** So just curious, am I the only person in the world that noticed that when David is uploading the virus, his screen has two windows open, one being whatever programming language he used and one being the scrolling alien code? They basically put it right there on the screen that they've got some sort of "translation" program or the ability to use the alien code itself, if anyone bothered to pay attention.
* Why, oh why, did the aliens (who have apparently been invading planets for a long time) come up with a ridiculous and compromisable method of coordinating their attack like utilising Earth's satellite networks, when they could have ''easily'' simply synchronised their watches and attack at a predetermined time (like real life militaries do).
** Alternatively, why not just relay the signal through their own ships? What would they have done if they came across a world that didn't have convenient communications satellites hovering around? That said, using Earth's satellites had the advantage of depriving the humans of their own communication networks, so there's some utility to the convoluted plan.
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