Yes, that could be a third option.

And pours the boiling water on its legs.

If a highly improbable spaceship had to dedicate all of its processing power to making a cup of tea, I suppose I can forgive an end user for having to think about it.

I mean that's a valid way of tea drinking.

If you're specialised enough it can be really hard to tell what's obvious. Like, you don't want to do "grab the mouse, which is one of your computer peripherals" either. Or at least, I worry about doing something like that, and coming across as a dick.

Relevant XKCD.

A lot of it is just "put it in"