Thing Explainer's genesis was the "Up-Goer Five" comic, which had Munroe take NASA's Saturn V rocket—the launch vehicle responsible for putting astronauts on the moon—and label its parts using ...

In his comic “Up Goer Five,” Randall Munroe labels a blueprint of NASA’s Saturn V Rocket using only the 1,000 most common English ... You can’t have Thing Explainer yet, but if you want, ...

The comic’s artist and author Randall Munroe just announced that he’s going to write an entire book titled Thing Explainer describing more blueprints of things with the same challenge of only ...

“Thing Explainer” Book Breaks Down Science Using ... The Saturn V rocket or the " Up Goer Five" uses descriptions such as the " opening for putting in cold wet air" to describe how ...

Up goer five, xkcd, Randall Munroe., CC BY The most beautiful thing about Munroe’s language is that, by forcing himself to work within his constraints, his scientific explanations are populated ...

So, Sanderson came up with “The Up-Goer Five Text Editor.” The other day , a group of really learned people tried to use Sander’s Up-Goer Five thing to try to explain their work. They tried ...