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Technology Do Extraterrestrials have access to the internet ?

I am extra and terrestrial. So I guess yes.

We humans are so cocky. If they are advanced civilization I guess they learned to play "yes/no" game. My belief is that we are grown by evolved species. Similar how we grow corn or chicken. But that's just me.
 
I think a better question would be, why would they even want to access our internet? Any ETs capable of interstellar travel have already mastered the physical universe and are probably thousands or millions of years older than us. Anything relevant they want to know about our planet, they could just find out through their own investigations, which would no doubt be superior to anything we could do to tell them about us.

Unless there are alien xenosociologists in their society who want to study the human internet for some reason?

If there are aliens here at all, then it means traveling through interstellar space is somehow possible according to the laws of physics, the fermi paradox is answered, and life is everywhere. Which means humans would not hold much fascination.
 
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Foreigner said:
I think a better question would be, why would they even want to access our internet? Any ETs capable of interstellar travel have already mastered the physical universe and are probably thousands or millions of years older than us. Anything relevant they want to know about our planet, they can just find out through their own investigations.

Unless there are alien xenosociologists in their society who want to study the human internet for some reason?

If there are aliens here at all, then it means traveling through interstellar space is somehow possible according to the laws of physics, the fermi paradox is answered, and life is everywhere. Which means humans would not hold much fascination.
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I’m very interested in this kind of topic. I think personally that they have complete control of the reality of their choosing. I even think ‘they’ could possibly be ‘us’ from the future. It’s like they influence us slightly and always evolve with us. The more advanced we get, the more advanced they get. Like we are linked. I think that if they disappear completely… we are in trouble. Just a thought
 
BugSlayer101 said:
I’m very interested in this kind of topic. I think personally that they have complete control of the reality of their choosing. I even think ‘they’ could possibly be ‘us’ from the future. It’s like they influence us slightly and always evolve with us. The more advanced we get, the more advanced they get. Like we are linked. I think that if they disappear completely… we are in trouble. Just a thought
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Not exactly how I (like to) see it, but an inspiring suggestion that's already got my mind triggered. Even if another context than internet.
 
A sufficiently advanced civilisation would of course have access to our Internet, not because of satellites but because it would be so trivially easy for any species aware of our existence and able to get here to just find and eavesdrop on an unsecured WiFi connection (or even a secured one, probably, we shouldnt expect our current cybersecurity best practices to be alien-proof)... or whatever other method any human would use to access the internet that doesn't involve paying for an ISP.

If your question is "could an advanced alien civilisation access the internet from lightyears away by just listening to the ambient radio frequency emissions coming from the Earth" then the answer is maybe but only in a "read only" sense and probably only random snippets of intelligible data. Then again how advanced are we talking, if the lightspeed barrier is not a problem for them and they're capable of remote observations of distant planets covertly enough that the natives have no clue they're being observed then they'd be able to listen to a conversation between 2 neanderthals or read the intentions of a brainless amoeba, or of course, our own thoughts. Satellite internet really doesn't have any impact whatsoever on the accessibility of any goings on on planet Earth to sufficiently advanced aliens. Either they're advanced enough to know about us and silently observe us (and if it happens in an age where the internet exists, then they have full access to that too) or they aren't, and aren't going to suddenly notice us the minute we put an internet-connected satellite into space.
 
Why would interdimensional intergalactic beings need the internet?

They most likely have the ability to communicate instantaneously across any distance with quantum abilities.

Humans are already developing quantum communication.
 
They would first have to learn to communicate the way we do. Learn our concepts and ways to perceive things. Otherwise even if they could access out internet or even minds, they wouldn't be able to make sense of it. Or maybe even know they were getting input from us.
It's an arrogant thing to assume aliens have to be human like.

Though some (but not necessarily all) basic concepts should be there, like survival instincts, and a certain learning capacity, curiosity, nourishment (the need to feed).
 
Quasimoto said:
Humans are already developing quantum communication
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No, they aren't.

lecroute said:
It's an arrogant thing to assume aliens have to be human like.
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I take your general point but I don't think aliens being able to observe, decode, and ultimately comprehend digital data means they have to be "human like", there are some general principles mandated by the laws of physics and digital methods of conveying information are pretty much a requirement for a technological society to advance to the point that they could observe the Earth. Once having reached that point, it would be trivially simple to begin to study the general behaviours of a bunch of monkeys going obliviously about their business and broadcasting it online. IMO it's arrogant to assume that humans are so special and unique that aliens would struggle to understand us, given sufficient time to study us, and having access to the internet would massively accelerate that process given the volume of language, video and audio data recorded by humans (or by systems developed by humans). If the internet was the ONLY thing they looked at they'd surely get a very skewed picture but given that there are pages on the internet where humans trade memes about how the Earth is flat, even if they had a psychology so different from our own that their own iteration of some kind of global communication never turned into the ocean of bullshit that our own did, given that they must possess some kind of intelligence in order to be seeing all this stuff in the first place, they'd pretty quickly twig that something was off and humans just are a weird bunch, and go on with their research, just like we do when studying frogs or lemmings maybe that occasionally throw themselves off cliffs, just because "lower" species think in different ways and have different intrinsic motivations (although when comparing 2 technologically capable species, I think some similarities can be assumed) doesn't mean that at first glance it would all be random nonsense.
 
Quasimoto said:
I should rephrase, they are working on quantum encryption for military and other communications.

Quantum cryptography - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Ah, I see. I felt the need to comment because usually when people mention "quantum communication" in this context they're thinking faster-than-light-communication using quantum entanglement, which is not possible - as far as we can tell, and if it was possible would open up the same time travel acausal universe can of worms as all other "true" FTL scifi concepts, whether you're moving spaceships or just information.

edit- on that note having just looked at your first post again it does look very much like this is in fact what you were referring to:

Quasimoto said:
They most likely have the ability to communicate instantaneously across any distance with quantum abilities.
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lecroute said:
Not exactly how I (like to) see it, but an inspiring suggestion that's already got my mind triggered. Even if another context than internet.
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Face it your homesick; and it don't seem like the mother ship is coming back to rescue you, anytime soon.
You are stuck here.🤣
 
The real question is why would a more intelligent species want associate with a planet full of hairless apes that are prone to irrational behavior and violence ?
 
MedicinalUser247 said:
The real question is why would a more intelligent species want associate with a planet full of hairless apes that are prone to irrational behavior and violence ?
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For science, and for practical defense. Just as our scientists observe and monitor other animals and ecosystems.

If dolphins were building nuclear bombs or laser weapons in deep ocean caves, we would be very interested in that.
 
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