• usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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    17 days ago

    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

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      17 days ago

      Yes, but they are refering to the title text, which is a “secret” message when you mouseover the image on xkcd’s website.

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          17 days ago

          In case you aren’t joking, it’s written in the post here :

          I need to push some updates to the remote sensing instruments, which are there to measure the surface and definitely not do anything else.