This writer’s best theory right now is that this team of astronauts somehow mess with time and are the cause of the Cloverfield monster’s (also known as Clover) rampage 10 years in the past (the movie is called Paradox, after all).
This kind of clashes with the supplemental material to Cloverfield that states the monster is from a deep ocean trench on Earth, but Paradox could still confirm or add to that.
Okay, there’s a lot to pick apart here.
Messing with that machine causes a lot of freaky things to happen, including, but not limited to, a severed hand crawling along the floor on its own accord.