crashfrog writes:
How would you send a message to our internet from the future?
Try explaining how aerodynamics or rocket science to an Amazon native who hunts monkeys daily for food.
Why send only a short text message and not, say, 100 gigs of data on the infection?
There are many reasons, and most of them we cannot think of.
When the white men wanted to "buy" land from the North American natives, the natives laughed and agreed thinking that the white men were stupid. To them, you can't own land. You can't take the land with you when you're dead. To the Europeans, they were laughing, too, because they thought the natives sold the land too cheaply.
Moral of the story? You can't force the aliens to think in terms of our logic that has been molded by cultural influence.
Call me crazy, but what if they had a prime directive that only allowed them minimum interference?
I'm not dismissing this out of hand, because I don't believe that "time travel is impossible" is a scientific conclusion, but more prosaic technical problems with data transmission to infrastructure in the past, especially to a digital, packet-switched network, lead me to believe that this is most likely a funny hoax and not actually contact from the future.
Yes, I must agree with you that this is probably a joke or hoax, and I am speaking out of my prejudicial instinct. However, strictly speaking, I have no way to prove either way.
Posting stuff to the internet requires a two-way link. And if the link is two-way, why wouldn't the future aliens stick around to chat with us?
You need to watch more stargate sg-1 and star trek. There are a brazillion reasons why they wouldn't chat with us, and most of them we couldn't think of.