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Pretty sure the joke is aimed at cubesats

Healthy optimism

I'm either missing context, or the joke is going over my head

Not irrational. The "detail" in this style of comic is visual clutter that makes it actually significantly harder to see what's in the panel right away

In what situation would the second box be anything but a negative, if may ask?

Do some people really use cards instead of compact list?

I mean, yeah, but the bigger argument here is that due to the sheer mass of Jupiter, the centre of mass of our solar system is actually very so slightly outside of the sun

No actually. Due to Jupiter, the centre of mass of the solar system is actually very slightly outside of the sun

Protests are very good at causing civil unrest, damaging public property, making other peoples days worse, and swaying their view further away from your cause

If any of those are your goal, they can be quite effective

To increase humanities control over its environment. The form that takes is a secondary concern

Let's be real here, it's the second one