Probably.

Although I personally find it funny that this basically thrusts us back to the early days of the internet where no one ever trusted anything. Or at least you weren't supposed to trust anything. And people not trusting what they see / read on the internet is probably a net positive for the world.

I mean they wave around the confederate flag so I can't be too surprised that they're betraying their state.

The alien slowly opens the door and hears a strange sound begin to float through the air.

"...helped thousands they'll help you too.

One lump sum of cash

They will pay to you.

If you get long term payments but you nee-" *SLAM*

The alien, fearing for their sanity slams the door shut and immediately decides that the human mind is just too dangerous to learn the secrets of.

All over the globe giant dead animals have been appearing out of thin air. Today two saber toothed cats suddenly appeared in downtown Boston. Yesterday a wooly mammoth was found just outside the Vatican. In Paris several weapons appeared that look to be large rocks affixed in some unknown way to the end of tree branches.

Why else would anyone become a scientist?

You're not wrong, but most of the confusion with order of operations happens at the multiplication -> addition level. At least in my experience. Like 5x^2 is really obvious what it's supposed to be to most people (if you're using actual super script, anyway).

Although that said, I understand that this very well may be because once you start doing more complicated math that actually requires a lot of parentheses and exponents and stuff you've already used the order of operations so many times it starts to become second nature, so it might just be that those are more obvious because the people that are encountering them are already well practiced.

Statistically it must mean God hates wife beaters, but I doubt the church will see it that way.

This is a picture of that one up there next to people, so you can get a scale of how big they are:

https://battlebots.com/robot/big-dill-2020/

Oh ok I see what you're saying.

I still stand by my assertion that it should have been obvious that I meant hack the satellite through the company, because the alternative would be silly.

"No you can't hack into the satellite directly, but the company is going to have an uplink somewhere and you can hack into that."

I don't know how much more clear I could have been.

You think the government isn't made of ordinary humans?

Although I understand the point you're trying to make about resources. And yes it would be easier to hack the company, that's literally what I said. I'm not saying it would be easier to build your own satellite uplink and then hack the satellite directly. That'd be stupid. Who would do that? Why would you ever think that was what I meant? That's like if I said "I'm walking to the store" and you got bent out of shape telling me how hard it is to walk on your hands so walking to the store is a dumb idea.

You would obviously hack the company then use their own uplink to send your code to the satellite. And the detectability and traceability of the signal doesn't matter because it's just going to lead them back to the company's uplink.

No you can't hack into the satellite directly, but the company is going to have an uplink somewhere and you can hack into that.

And the security of the satellite is going to depend on the company that owns and builds it. It's not like you can walk down to Satellites-R-Us and get some default model that comes with all sorts of security pre-installed. Some of them may very well have basic protections.

So you think they're going to launch space ads that can't be updated in any way? We can get images back from Mars, I think we can get data signals to low orbit satellite ads.

Like here is a live video feed from the ISS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86YLFOog4GM

Well I think at this exact moment it's recorded footage. It can't broadcast 100% of the time but my point is there is no way any company is going to spend the money to send up just one, un-updatable ad.

Also, and this is probably way more relevant than my first link, people have already hacked satellites: https://www.freethink.com/space/decommissioned-satellite-hacking

Or hack them. That'd probably be easier.