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** 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.
*** There's also that since the aliens are ''telepathic'', they shouldn't need a broadcast timing signal at all. The only guess that even remotely makes sense to this troper was that it was their equivalent of the conqueror's taunt -- 'Puny Earthlings, make your peace with your gods, for your doom will fall upon you in X hours Y minutes.
**** Why are you assuming that their telepathy is so strong that they can use it in place of long-distance communications? Considering that the aliens don't make a move on Area 51 until Area 51 starts getting ready to make a move on them, this is almost certainly false. If the aliens could communicate across that kind of distance and through any interference, I'm pretty sure the moment they realized that what was left of the government of the most powerful nation on their target planet was all gathered in one place, they'd have made a direct beeline for it at that point, not futzed around for awhile first.
*** They used our satellites because they couldn't transmit directly to each other around the curvature of the Earth, as stated in the movie. And their telepathy probably has limited range, and why would a taunt be hidden?
** How about the reverse engineering of alien tech means that the signal is _inadvertently_ broadcast through our satellites?
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