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

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

or a poorly run extra terrestrial IT department

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

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

Solar eclipses as chaos monkey events.

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

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.