Talk:3011: Europa Clipper

I'm not brave enough to actually add an explanation myself, quite yet, but ... I guess this is a reference to the fact(?) that Europa looks a bit like a creme brulee', when viewed from space? https://science.nasa.gov/jupiter/moons/europa/ It does look tasty ... :) ModelD (talk) 12:53, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

I suspect it's more due to the need to drill through a couple miles of ice to get to the ocean; much like breaking through the sugar crust on a creme broule! Seebert (talk) 13:16, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you to the people at 9AM Post things on another website to try and explain XKCD Comics. -Forgotten_Mail 172.69.33.177 (talk) 13:30, 13 November 2024 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

The comically large spoon!!!!!!!!!! I love those. -P?sych??otic?pot??at???o (talk) 16:38, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Don't be sucked in! Protect yourself! https://rathergood.com/2017/02/10/spoonguard/ 141.101.99.105 10:57, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

I think the "Crème brûlée is from France, France is in Europe, the moon is called Europa" connection is a bit of a stretch...? Yorkshire Pudding (talk) 18:36, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Eh, it's the same etymology. --172.69.134.230 11:04, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

The issue of the continent and the moon coming from the same classical source (for different reasons) rather stretches the link between the dish (from the country, from the country's region/continent, from the region of Greece, possibly from the pantheon) and the moon (directly from the pantheon). I agree with the 'stretch' assessment. You can probably find easier and more plausible (but wrong) links worth alluding to than that, which relies upon several steps and a possible polysemic pair of original links. 172.70.58.45 12:12, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

From an American perspective, Europe might seem like a distant, mysterious place that you might want to send a probe to to gather interesting information, and also somewhere that crème brûlée comes from. It's also potentially confusable (by the easily confused) with Europa. That seems like a reasonable enough connection to make to me. The mention of France is essentially by the by.172.71.26.107 12:23, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

It keeps getting said that "Europa is named after Europe", which is not correct (etymology, BTW, not entomology). I shall have to re-restore some other changes made to the same paragraph in rapid succession whilst I was trying to explain this. Bear with me. 172.70.160.195 14:57, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

...You don't care, do you. You just keep putting it back in. SMH. Have fun. Someone else will probably be along to correct you again later. 141.101.68.92 15:35, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

"only a spoonful" moment 💔 Caliban (talk) 19:20, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Someone should add a reference to XKCD's previous mention of a Planetary Protection Officer: https://what-if.xkcd.com/117/ 162.158.42.221 00:09, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

JUICE mentioned!!! cracker ham cheese cracker ham cheese cracker N-eh (talk) 07:31, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Here is a list from NASA about spacecraft instrument deployment failures, they are remarkably frequent: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20210020397/downloads/Alphonzo%20Stewart-%20Final%20Paper.pdf 162.158.19.50 13:00, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

I think we need to have a conversation about how the insertion orbit plan is so chaotic that there is a significant chance that the probe might crash in to and pierce the crust of Europa. 162.158.187.56 14:36, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Well we just need Elon to lock in the plan that if it crashes that it automatically becomes a sample return mission, and the first SolarCity sales rep to break out +150% of their quota gets to be the one to crash it. 162.158.42.130 15:56, 14 November 2024 (UTC)