re: Smaller non-human being bodies revealed at Nazca

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I'm still not over Jeff Goldblum saving the day by quickly writing a virus for an alien computer system. I realize it's a popcorn flick and everything, but if the aliens come we aren't beating them with our hacking skills in the first week.

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Not to disrupt this riveting thread, but the explanation for that is that nearly all (in-movie) modern human computer technology was not developed independently but was based on reverse-engineering the alien computer systems in the crashed Area 51 ships. So while the systems wouldn't be identical, anyone with knowledge of "earth" computers would be at least moderately familiar with the alien technology.