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submitted 5 days ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

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They had BETTER make this a sample return mission.

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[–] Deebster@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

The ExplainXKCD is great:

In truth, no such spoon is present on the probe, and Europa's icy crust is too thick to be penetrated by a spoon of such size.

The author is either being very tongue-in-cheek or very literal and humourless and I'm enjoying it both ways.