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This is Awesome: U.S. Space Team’s “Up Goer Five”

by Jason Major on November 12, 2012

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xkcd presents a Saturn V schematic using the 1,000 most used English words (xkcd.com)

Randall Munroe at xkcd did it again, this time with an illustration of a Saturn V described using only the 1,000 — er, ten hundred — words people use most often. The result is amusing, insightful and, as always, undeniably awesome.

Check out the Saturn-sized full frame comic below.

(And remember, if the end where the fire comes out of  ”starts pointing toward space you are having a bad problem and will not go to space today.”)

Source: xkcd.com.

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A graphic designer living in Providence, RI, Jason writes about astronomy and space exploration on his blog Lights In The Dark, Discovery News and here on Universe Today.

Tagged as: comic, NASA, Randall Munroe, rocket, Saturn, schematic, xkcd

  • Baksa Péter

    It is interesting that Moon isn’t in the top1000 words.

    • http://twitter.com/JPMajor Jason Major

      …but “goer” is.

  • meekGee

    … So you can say “landing”, but cannot say “thousand”.
    huh.

  • Mikeydude

    I appreciate the illustration, although I don’t see the need to dumb down the descriptions with this gimmick.

    • addicted4444

      It’s a joke. With an impressive scientific background, based on an awesome constraint ie using only the most common words, further revealing awesomeness like “cept” and not except fall in the top 1000 words people use.

    • http://www.facebook.com/Dr.Nothing Jeffrey Scott Boerst

      SINGS: -stick oin thah mu-u-u-d…Don’t be a stick in tha Mu-u-u-ud….-

  • Torbjörn Larsson

    This for hand written image is beautiful.

    Ha, “comic” isn’t in there!

  • Aqua4U

    I want space ship go up… not faw down!

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