Title text:
I need to push some updates to the remote sensing instruments, which are there to measure the surface and definitely not do anything else.
Transcript:
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3308/
if there’s another potential misreading joke hidden in the title text, I can’t find it. ‘Remote sensing’ -> ‘remote detonation’ seems like a stretch. Maybe something with ‘measure the surface’? But then what would it be? Pleasure the surface?! I think not!
Basically I feel like this right now:
I assumed it meant the “remote sensing instruments” were put there to explode jupiter’s icy moons because of the intial misreading.
Maybe “remote seismic instruments”? Still kind of a stretch, but a bit closer
They thought the E stood for exploder not explorer, so need to update the mission as they presumably programmed it to explode instead of explore
Yes, but they are refering to the title text, which is a “secret” message when you mouseover the image on xkcd’s website.
The “juice” bit? You say something has more “juice” if it’s more volatile, e.g., explodes.
In case you aren’t joking, it’s written in the post here :