How To Go To Space (with XKCD!)

[@NorthForkFisherman]

"if the fire end points toward space....you are having a bad problem and will not go to space today....." A slight understatement if there ever was one.

[@anthonyeaton9049]

...So that's what I've been doing wrong all these years?

[@llewelynshingler2173]

There's a comic along these lines, noting "If pieces fall off the upgoer in the wrong order, you are having a big problem and will not go to space today or ever.

[@xkcdunofficial2430]

"You're gonna have a bad time"

[@luna010]

DUDU DU DU DU DU DU DUDUDU

[@d3vitron779]

Lol scott manley posted this on Twitter the other day

[@smartereveryday]

(trying to use only the 1000 most common words). I really like the picture you put on the sky boat on the right. I want to go to space, and this video makes me happy.

[@cool2570]

Simple English Wikipedia

[@philipplsgfwpjhac3755]

+SmarterEveryDay computer movie*

[@MasterHigure]

+Philipp lsgfwpjhac No, "video" is actually among the thousand most common words, according to the free word book. (So is "thousand", which means that it is not really necessary to say "ten hundred".)

[@philipplsgfwpjhac3755]

MasterHigure I'm sorry

[@BarnabyKeene]

+SmarterEveryDay This page has my favourite combination of science people on the place where lots of computers talk to each other!

[@lucykitsune4619]

Row, Row, Row you boat gently through the sky. Merily, merily, merily, just don't fall and die.

[@charliefranklin8523]

i dont think merry is on the list

[@Sera_AI]

@@charliefranklin8523 Propel, propel, propel your vessel ...

[@AP-fo5cf]

Saying 1000 as 'ten hundred' caught me off guard.

[@earth4180]

Is 1000 not in the top 1000 words? That's kinda surprising honestly.

[@jpe1]

earth418 you are correct, the word “thousand” is not one of the one thousand most commonly used words (at least, not on Randall’s list of the 1000 most common words; other lists might include it, depending on how they were constructed)

[@BasfarThijsje]

Strangely, I didn't hear it and had to rewatch the video to notice is after reading your comment...

[@jpe1]

Mincerafter 42 I missed that detail! As often as “nine ninety nine” is used as a price I would have thought it would be, but perhaps nine is usually represented as simply the digit 9 and thus not counted as a word.

[@kenthsaya-ang3718]

Upgoer is more common that thousand?

[@melody_florum]

UPGOERS BURN FIRE WATER

[@Regolith86]

Burn Fire Water, Burn.

[@goldengryphon]

Possibly the best statement I have heard in months. Absolutely true, too.

[@lilaxeree3621]

Nugget likes fire water

[@Sarahbryson321]

SKYBOATS

[@NStripleseven]

Well they're not wrong.

[@itsFisch]

Everything changed when the fire nation attacked using fire water...

[@MrAndrewRamz]

lmao

[@itsFisch]

+アルトリア・ペンドラゴン And even more things changed when they realised that skybags could be harnessed as explosives...

[@minecraftermad]

+アルトリア・ペンドラゴン they made up goers with fire water! :D

[@Jamato-sUn]

+kelvin chillin wololo

[@husseinrasheed9667]

+itsFisch Everything changed when u hear that in Katara's voice

[@Clever_Catchphrase]

To be completely honest, when I first discovered minute physics I thought you and the author of XKCD were the same person due to your art styles. I'm glad your a fan of XKCD as well!

[@nathanlee7078]

Weirdly, this is slightly harder to understand than if you had used the normal words.

[@thatfriggingbathroom2656]

Only if you do know the special words. If you do it is easier, because that's what they are for. Two doctors talking to each other might find it much easier to just say "atrioventricular" instead of making up a whole phrase describing this word, but if you don't know what it means, the ten hundred word limit really helps.

[@jackalscry8173]

That was the point of the book

[@xyberviri]

@@thatfriggingbathroom2656 would a atrioventricular be a muscle pump divider?

[@NStripleseven]

Why use big word when small word do trick?

[@brainseason850]

I agree, it would be slightly easier to understand in more standard physics terminology.

[@doriancostley9075]

The simplified language at first appears to make things easier to understand, but then you some across phrases like "up goer", "fire water", and "the kind of air that once burned a big sky bag and people died". Those groups of words are more confusing than just saying "fuel", "Rocket", and "Hydrogen like what was in the Hindenburg". It's kind of funny that things being too simple can make things more confusing than the more complex words.

[@noname-sg6qx]

And the idea of complex words was to make long sentences shorter for simplification

[@samieb4712]

Agreed. If you allow for 5 special vocab words that would allow many explanations to be executed in this style quite smoothly I think

[@techmage89]

The thing is, the more detail you go into, the worse the problem gets. The reason we have very technical terms is because, once you know what they mean, they make it easier to explain and understand complex topics.

[@mvmlego1212]

Yep. It's the same reason that we don't program in machine code, and nearly nobody programs in Assembly code.

[@sameendusk2623]

yeah, that's not really the point. this is more of an exercise in language manipulation than it is an exercise in simple explanation.

[@filipinordabest]

If I say "rocket" very often, it might become the 1000th most used word.

[@minimash2485]

+filipinordabest good idea

[@z0e898]

Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Rocket Enough yet?

[@markoproloscic4492]

I think they used a Googles tool for words in books from the last 200 years, so no internet sadly

[@spidercollector9636]

Up Goer

[@Rabbitthat]

Up Goer is a compound noun, I am not sure you can just invent a compound noun and still say you are using high frequency words. Not to mention the fact that "goer" isn't common at all.

[@Bazo1337]

I want to go to space but I don't have enough OKs, can you guys help me out?

[@armstrong.r]

+G Jones OK.

[@mynameisjongreen]

+G Jones OK

[@yahwee3530]

+G Jones OK

[@僕と契約しましょう]

+G Jones ok

[@kzeriar25]

k.o.

[@chimkinNuggz]

im pretty sure "fuck" is within the 100 most used words

[@NamaSayaAkmal]

+RuggedALAN please. it's in the top 5 words.

[@yousorooo]

+RuggedALAN And when your up-goer is going down, _fuck_.

[@SSM24_]

Well it works in xkcd.com/simplewriter/ so...

[@jbz3]

You guys should do this with quantum mechanics and special relativity.

[@oakenguitar3]

+jbz3 If they did, they would probably talk about how string theory is the theory that tries to link quantum mechanics with special relativity. Explained very simply, they would say that everything is thought to be made of tiny strings.

[@jbz3]

+lee melymick Why not?

[@jbz3]

+oakenguitar3 I think it would be an interesting challenge to describe particle duality, schrodinger's cat, reference frames, and time dilation in simple words.

[@jbz3]

+lee melymick I think that makes for a better challenge to describe it simply enough for someone that doesn't already know it using only words that they might already use. I know a lot of people that don't know much about those topics, and maybe the other videos are still going over their heads. Why did you watch this video? Did you learn anything? What's something you still haven't learned about?

[@oakenguitar3]

***** These minute physics videos are for entertainment. There fun but there really is no substitute for reading a college level text book several times in any subject for proper learning. I never took a class in music theory, but I could teach it at a college level because I've read several books on it and give private music lessons. A college professor even told me that he would let me skip to the next class level if I was interested in taking it. On the other hand, I have a certificate in welding but since I haven't read any book on it, I practically have nothing useful ingrained into memory about the subject except for the absolute basic stuff.

[@gavin5410]

Cx 1. Fire water. Love it. 2. The word boat is used more commonly than plane, or jet, or helicopter, or even vehicle?

[@flyingpenandpaper6119]

Isn't fire water vodka?

[@ooooljoooo]

Whiskey!

[@tomfoolery4490]

Early rockets used alcohol as fuel, so you're not wrong.

[@unitrader403]

i understood Fire water as Hydrogen. cause when you Burn it it makes Fire, and Water :D it also once burned a Big Skybag and a reporter yelled "Oh the humanity"

[@link4universe]

*_* can we start calling rockets "upgoers" ? :D i would love to see serious space engineers and administrators say "upgoer" :D anyway, nice challenge, it really made my day! Funny and smart! P.S. i really loved the "OKs" part, because it mad me thing a lot about how many many many people all over the world are involved in deciding who gets to go to space and who doesn't! Great job as allways guys!

[@masonsilvers6789]

Me too

[@masonsilvers6789]

"The upgoer blew up" lol

[@skeletor9257]

r/ihadatroke

[@Anvilshock]

But to stay up, the upgoers don't just have to go up, they have to go sideways, too, and actually a lot more sideways than up. So perhaps upgoers should rather be called alotgoers.

[@lucykitsune4619]

[...] Zero! Takeoff! Upgoer will arrive in Space in 30 minutes.

[@Clone2572]

How to go to space? It's easy. Capsule + Fuel Tank + Thruster. THERE!! APPROVED BY AN EXCELLENT ENGINEER BILL KERMAN

[@TheIdealGasLaw]

+Bill Kerman You have to wait for Jedediah to get back before you can go...

[@FamineDino]

+TheIdealGasLaw Your comment, so perfect that I laughed and my sister just looked at me oddly.

[@danneu8]

+Bill Kerman Didn't work. Adding more struts.

[@MadMonkey126]

+Bill Kerman Needs more struts!

[@x1g5dj7dh4]

+Bill Kerman Screw that! Use overheat staging and solid rocket boosters! Get to Mars with only your Hammers!

[@christopherweeks89]

Nice code at 2:00

[@eldergamer8896]

+Chris Weeks (Trombone Guy) lol "random I swear" cracked me up

[@MackyClemen]

int getRandomNumber() { -----return 4;// yes ------------------// random I swear }

[@MaeveFirstborn]

+Chris Weeks (Trombone Guy) Perfect code.

[@MissIshX]

What's this code at 2:00 you speak of?

[@MaeveFirstborn]

The c# programming at the top.

[@DgtlRnn042]

As a huge fan of BOTH xkcd and Minute Physics any/all collaboration between you is the best thing ever.

[@Slayer_Jesse]

yes! "Up goer five" is still one of my favorite XKCD strips.

[@Jane-jm2pn]

Have you read it yet?

[@shawniscoolerthanyou]

"What If?" is an excellent book. I particularly like the idea of ablating the moon with lasers.

[@luxtenax9175]

>tfw couldn't even learn how to fly a skyboat because of poor vision ;(

[@ResanChea]

Umm... Plane is an easier term.... Sorry about that bro

[@IceMetalPunk]

+Resan Chea They were talking about blimps, not planes.

[@ResanChea]

IceMetalPunk oh well... It's too simple for me

[@NoESanity]

+IceMetalPunk actually they were talking about jets and Jet assisted helicopters. about 80% of the earths Astronauts* made it to space in a Jet or helicopter, not a rocket. An Astronaut is someone who Flies more than 100 KM (about 60 miles) above the surface.

[@IceMetalPunk]

NoESanity Did I miss something? When they used the term "sky boat", they were talking about the hydrogen fuel and how it blew up, killing many people--that would be a Hindenberg reference, which was a blimp.

[@TimmacTR]

GreaT! Next, please try to explain quantum entanglement past the singularity in black holes using the 1000 most common words!! xD

[@opalb9006]

challenge mode: use the 1000 most common words, but you are not allowed to use the #1 most common word

[@jim0_o]

0:30 Fire-water.. isn't that alcohol ? edit: Would love to see a Neil D. Tyson reaction video to this.

[@Satchboy71]

+Jim R. Didriksen That's what kept going through my mind every time he said it. Although they do use liquid oxygen and hydrogen in rockets so it kinda is fire from water.

[@BlueBetaPro]

Hydrogen is made from water.

[@oscargordon]

+Jim R. Didrikson I'm guessing that Satchboy71 is correct in his interpretation that he is referring to liquid oxygen and hydrogen burning to water as an exhaust. Early rockets like the V2 did use alcohol as a fuel. Then there was hydrazine, which had a super high energy density but was very unstable. Think of those films from the '50s of rockets blowing up on the launch pad. Kerosene was used in the 1st stage of the Atlas, Delta, and Saturn rockets.

[@Zayats_MW]

+BlueBetaPro Well... Hydrogen can be extracted from water (then you would be left only with oxygen). So what I mean is it's the other way around and water is in fact, made of Hydrogen(H) and Oxygen(O). To assure yourself that it's true, look at this molecular formula for water {H²O}

[@Borednesss]

+Jim R. Didriksen It's hard to describe fuel with the words they used. I looked at their list, and gas isn't even on there so you'd probably have to describe a car's fuel the same way. Liquid isn't even there. Unfortunately there were 35 contractions on the list, each comprising of two words already on the list... so yeah

[@captainmystery4123]

Me in the first 30 seconds: "This doesn't seem that bad" minutephysics literally the next second: "An upgoer that burns fire water"

[@baxt3r278]

I love that book... The part at the end where it says "Also, there's a pair of four-letter words that are very common but which I left off the page since some people don't like to see those words (I didn't want to use those words anyway)"

[@TheHoaxHotel]

OH THE HUGE MANATEE!

[@profile_bamed]

+The Hoax Hotel DUDE I JUST WATCHED YOUR VIDEO RIGHT BEFORE THIS ONE NO WAY MAN ILY

[@kaaazzi3365]

+The Hoax Hotel Why do I keep finding you everywhere? :D

[@Radditz770]

I refuse to believe that the word "Upgoer" is more common than "rocket" xD

[@romkoppel5302]

+Radditz770 it isn't up and go are. it's not upgoer as one word. it's 2 words combined to have a different meaning and is written like this: up-goer

[@Radditz770]

Rom Koppel Maybe it's because I'm swedish and we got different grammatical rules, but if you put two words together, the result is one word x3

[@romkoppel5302]

Radditz770 every language has different grammar...

[@Radditz770]

Rom Koppel Yes, but I do reckon that "Two words together becomes one word" is a more or less global rule :P

[@romkoppel5302]

Radditz770 yup. grammar makes me depressed. #hebrew

[@shadowmil]

how is boat a more common word then "plane' in 2015?

[@ApostateltsopA]

+Charles Miller Just be happy space is one of the words. Woo space!

[@AndrewPitmanator]

+Haniff Din simpler, maybe, but not more common, by whatever source they're using.

[@DanielSuarez-tt4jp]

+Charles Miller Most likely because its easier to own and drive a boat than a plane.

[@doceigen]

Daniel Suarez And a boat doesn't fall out of the sky onto people's homes.

[@shadowmil]

Andrew Pitman Pretty much WAY more people fly on a plane daily then people who on a boat.

[@ComandanteJ]

XKCD is fluffing awesome

[@ComandanteJ]

+ComandanteJ Oh, and this video was hilarious and awesome!

[@gazundhieghts6512]

yes he is! I saw him in Naperville for his Thing Explainer tour!

[@NLite486]

"you are having a bad problem and you will not go to space today" fucking iconic line

[@lufferov]

That was really funny, and actually easy to understand. I particularly loved the "sky boats" description.

[@VoidHalo]

This just made me wanna play KSP.

[@adamkerman475]

Same

[@AlexandreAubrey]

"Up-goer that burns fire water". I laughed so hard. It's too accurate.

[@ws6002]

I'm going to space the easy way: "BEAM ME UP, SCOTTY" Scotty? Scotty, are you there? Now would be a good time.

[@endingsky8271]

Nasa: Nooo, you can't just go to space. Its dangerous and you need proper training! Me (after watching video): Fire water goes brrrr

[@nightguy7077]

Up goer? Damn is rocket a hard word?

[@AleroAero]

+Night Guy this video was made using only the 1000 most used words in the English language

[@dolantremp]

ikr why is "goer" more common than "rocket" or "space ship"

[@ExploreRealms]

+Jason Slater 'goer' is a word?

[@danilooliveira6580]

+ItsDumi "Go" is

[@dolantremp]

ItsDumi i didn't think it was

[@Crick1952]

The fact that "rocket", "fuel", "gravity" and any word for aircraft besides "sky boat" aren't part of the 1000 most common English words disturbs me.

[@Vontremort]

+Crick1952 1000 is a very small number!

[@BigDataTechnologies]

I also thought better choices may have been available within the top1000 words, so now I must ask: where is the List? Surely I can Google that...brb ;)

[@boomstick900]

+Crick1952 I'm fairly sure "jail" IS in that list. At least in America.

[@cipollinodan]

+Big Data Technologies Randall explains a bit more about this here blog.xkcd.com/2015/09/22/a-thing-explainer-word-checker/

[@willrice1212]

Why not? gravity is attractive, and like most things, it will get you down

[@lex8174]

2:28 "Internet" isn't one of the 1000 most common words? Shocking.

[@aidanlevy2841]

google is failing as big brother. I have sunk many hours into minutephysics and XKCD over the last several years and this is the first time this piece of pure awesome has been recommended to me :(

[@francescosorce5189]

when you start learning a new language that's basically how you speak it's not too weird for general sentences, but those times a specific thing comes up you sound really weird (like here, if you're confident enough) or you just stop awkwardly trying to remember the terminology. Edit: well not really "when you start", when you get very decent is more appropriate

[@anzahanifathallah]

Yes, finally my favorite two men that draws stuff for knowledge work together.

[@firefly1313130]

int randomNum(){ return 4; }

[@jadpole]

#define RANDOM_NUMBER 4 int randomNum() { return RANDOM_NUMBER; // seems legit! }

[@deamon6681]

+Jessy Pelletier-Lemire 1.: "9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9" 2.: "That doesn't seem particularly random, you sure it's random"? 3.: "That's the problem, you can never be sure..."

[@abdullahrahman2006]

+Daniel England //found with rolling a fair dice

[@Trascist]

+Daniel England Try this: import java.util.*; class RandNum { RandNum () { } int execute () { return this; } }

[@MrTridac]

+Unknown Of course, the java coder doesn't get the joke.

[@-Gnarlemagne]

Today I learned that rockets are powered by whiskey

[@jiangciyang3860]

molotov cocktail sir?

[@HamzahKhan314]

some early russian rockets were actually powered by alcohol. apparently, some of the fuel would occasionally disappear from the storage tanks lol

[@daniellesmagic]

Love this video! Perfectly explained for us folks who like science but are usually left feeling like, "wait, what?" about it all!

[@darthvader0219]

I'm pretty sure this is how you would present Rocket science to someone from the 19th century.

[@SumsarH]

Skyboat? So nobody says plain?

[@asdasdasdasd7483]

+Darkness Serpent most people says plane anyways ;)

[@LnPPersonified]

+Darkness Serpent I thought they were pretty plain myself.

[@Jensaw101]

+Darkness Serpent English has a lot of words, not every commonly used word (especially if you're basing that off of it being commonly used within your group, rather than off of more inclusive data) is going to be within the *most* common 1000 words.

[@Stonegoal]

+Darkness Serpent Sky Boat

[@IWANTAWORLD]

+Darkness Serpent it is easy to make a skyboat to float on the water ,the hard part is to make the water levitate.

[@donkosaurus]

you are having a bad problem and will not go to space today

[@turbogeek.421]

"ten hundred" … o.O This video hurts my brain!

[@anonimenkolbas1305]

I like the fact that the video is narrated in simple English. I feel that even someone from 150 years ago, or more, can understand the concept of how rockets work. Good job!

[@670839245]

A computer movie (video) about an up-goer (rocket) that burns fire-water (fuel), possibly the kind that once burned the big sky-bag (airship?), with a big sheet that catches air (parachute) to help you return to Earth, which trying to get inside one can get you locked in a room behind bars (jail/prison)? Not the best thing linguistically. (unless you are talking to a 6-year-old who has no idea what a "video" is)

[@willferrous8677]

Wait so... "thousand" is not among the thousand most used words in the English language? **The more you know jingle**

[@romajimamulo]

that's actually kinda weird

[@sallyhallman4316]

+Will Ferrous it's #989 now

[@ImAlexGoodwin]

+Will Ferrous What is "thousand"? I only know "ten hundred."

[@Sander_Datema]

+I'mAlex Fail

[@jt....]

*[**2:16**]:* For me this is more like *simple* stuff explained in *a confusing way*.

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

I absolutely loved this video! xkcd is a wonderful comic, What If? is an amazing book, & I cannot wait to see what Thing Explainer is like. Dream on, Henry & Randall! So Long & Thanks For All the Fish, Lawrence Calablaster

[@pacpong]

dammit you got here first and said everything I wanted to say!

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

+James Ullman :) Hardly! I got in at 25th or something like that. But I do appreciate your selfsame zeal for fun & science! Have a good one!

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

+James Ullman :) Hardly! I got in at 25th or something like that. But I do appreciate your selfsame zeal for fun & science! Have a good one!

[@MadmanEpic]

This moving picture is very good and enjoy it I will. I feel as if it is very knowing and it has teaching powers in telling me about Up-Goers. It has made me want to go out to the big phone line book store to buy the big book it came from, Hard To Explain Things Explained in Simple Words, and I want to thank Minute Fall-Down People for making it.

[@oreotookie8848]

Very cool! We are waiting for an "up goer" at 8:30, unless something changes, which it usually does, like someone messing with the "up goer" and off putting the schedule maker.

[@coloripple]

this video was actually a lot harder to understand without for instance the words rocket, pridon, thousand of even plane... :D

[@coloripple]

*prison

[@PhilippeCarphin]

Richard Feynman would be proud of this.

[@marbleswan6664]

Philippe Carphin upvoted for mention of my idol

[@soupgirl1864]

The guy (Randall Munroe) has a book called Thing Explainer which is more of this.

[@marbleswan6664]

TheEnderLeader1 upvote for my second idol

[@fredricknietzsche7316]

Correction,: fire water comes from dead plants not animals (common misunderstanding ) . short explanation : fire water is also called hydrocarbons, the big plant era is called the carbifierious era. ever find (very) old vegetables in your refrigerator? (mushy black nasty) (read turning into a "carbony sugary mess" ever find very old protein in your refrigerator? dried, moldy smelly (not a carbony mess). Its hard to get hydrocarbons from protein, its easier to get hydrocarbons from plants (for example ethanol from corn) Yes not specifically to a hydrocarbon, but you get my point. no one makes traditional "fire water" out of protein, but it has been made from all sorts of plants. explanation done.

[@Sarah_D.]

My husband is a fan of XKCD and stuff like this, so I got him the book for Christmas. He loves it! :)

[@sk8rdman]

I don't know if I would want more of this kind of video, but I do find it fascinating. Ever since I saw Vsauce's video on Zipf's Law I've been fascinated with this idea of how little one has to know of a language to understand and speak most of it. It's very interesting to see this actually put into practice. It's worth pointing out though, that much of this explanation would have been hard to understand without the added visual context clues. That's an important part of the language that was not limited by the 1000 word limit. Everything that didn't exist within those 1000 words, was explained with pictures.

[@amyharris8801]

I was okay until "fire water" and "sky bag". Then I completely lost it.

[@kentlofgren]

What if I buy or build one of those up-goers, do I still really need OK's?

[@noahwilliams8996]

+Kent Löfgren You might need people to say OK to let you go into the big circle around our big ball so that you don't run into other big machines in outer-spaciness.

[@juanjosecarreraluna826]

1:26 Steve's sheets broke. Steve hit the ground too hard

[@bobbywzx8819]

Randall and MinutePhysics: tries to simplify explanation Me: what is fire water?

[@BillySugger1965]

Wonderful off the wall explanation Henry. It reminds me that every human, or man made artefact, launched into space has been put there by the same basic process of fire, known since before modern humans evolved. Few craft, like the Dawn probe which has an electric ion drive, have gone beyond basic combustion. Great video!

[@gingar77]

Video came with a bobcat. Would not watch again

[@quaris4048]

^ lol :D

[@JustinWangxxx]

You meant computer movie.

[@ihaveagun22]

"fire water" "up goer" "sky boat" i see you hit some limitations with the 1000 most common words thing

[@LimeGreenTeknii]

Someone should make an app that translates your text into simple English like on Wikipedia or this video.

[@styx85]

Done. xkcd.com/simplewriter/

[@LimeGreenTeknii]

Am I missing something ***** because it's not translating; it's only highlighting words that aren't simple.

[@styx85]

Right, yeah, that's all it does. A tool that actually translates automatically would be damn near impossible to make. You'd need either a large volume of text in both languages or a pretty damn good artificial intelligence that understands that a rockets goes up, so "up goer" is a valid translation, etc.

[@LimeGreenTeknii]

***** I get it. You're saying that a helping thing that actually takes words and changes them right without the help of others would be very very hard to make. You'd need either a lot of words written down in both ways of speaking or a very well-made computer-thinking-way-of-thinking that understands that a 'rocket' goes up, so "up goer" is a good word change in such a case.

[@MrPillowStudios]

You did it alright! I am so good with you on this! To be of such, this short film shows us all the needed things of the antimber like how it works, how it goes, and the wrong doings you could end up doing on unknowing. Thank you for this!

[@curlymoo]

I really enjoyed this, and whilst some parts had me scratching my head the pictures made it clear. I enjoyed it as an investigation into language and word play rather than space. Perhaps it's the teacher in me. I always have to adjust my language for the children I teach.

[@ngnyc]

"fire water" - minutephysics 2015

[@Kalleosini]

it wasn't confusing before, but this video makes it confusing.

[@hpesoj00]

+Ebon Hawk Only if you speak English good.

[@Kalleosini]

hpesoj00 well* only if you speak english well*

[@kadeacon]

+hpesoj00 *Spoke

[@BertGrink]

Is it even possible to *NOT* be a fan of xkcd?

[@RamLaska]

2:02 Best code example, ever.

[@hogpsking33]

You should do more computer movies like this. You are good at doing them, and the people learn a lot by watching them.

[@guyspy21]

"How to ruin a child's dream in it's own language"

[@lezenfilms]

10/10 would zoolander again

[@GooseHonkHonkHonk]

+Ariel Lezen Don't worry I appreciate your joke

[@EntrE01]

how is "goer" part of the top 1000???

[@TheCrunchyGum]

+Karl Aleksander Leoste Oh hey I'm subscribed to you

[@styx85]

Variation of the verb? That seems like a bit of a cop-out, IMO. It's a noun, and quite different from the verb go. If you allow all nominalization you'd allow movement if you allow move, etc. It adds a _lot_ of words.

[@culwin]

+EntrE01 It's a big plot by Al Goer

[@coastersplus]

+styx85 Yes, but almost all of the ten hundred most normal words would be taken up by extra kinds of doing-things words if the extra kinds were not just allowed. There would be no words for places or things so it would be really hard to talk to other people and say things that actually mean stuff.

[@josiahbaumgartner7643]

This is still easily my favorite video you've ever done because of the 1000 words thing

[@PeterYanTech]

"you are having a bad problem and will not go to space today" I've been chuckling all day.

[@ChuDust]

I don't get why some people say "ten hundred". Isn't it supposed to be "one thousand"? So do they say 12 345 as "a hundred and twenty-three hundred, forty five"?

[@coreylando6608]

"Thousand" isn't among the 1000 most commonly used words xD

[@rockstopsthetraffic]

+ChuDust "Thousand" isn't within the one thousand most-commonly used words, but "ten" and "hundred" are.

[@Lotantio]

+ChuDust Umm, acutally it is, see: the *thousand* most commonly used words It's right in the title.

[@EpicScizor]

+Lotantio Since we're already on a video that is borrowing a concept from xkcd, here's a super relevant xkcd comic: xkcd.com/169/

[@timmowarner]

+Lotantio That says ten hundred. A 10 followed by two zeros.

[@pastymccheese7866]

using simple words just made it more complicated for me :s

[@ozzyfromspace]

lol same.

[@ahumanbeingamnayplaceholde1746]

Me too

[@Blyter7]

Fire water? people really have a hard time knowing what fuel is?

[@Roxor128]

+Brady Lyter Probably couldn't find "fuel" in the top 1000 most common words.

[@havardmj]

+Brady Lyter well, technically it's hydrogen. And i don't think it's part of top 1000 words, even though it's the top 1 element.

[@Al-.-ex]

+havardmj Are you saying that a fuel is only Hydrogen?

[@havardmj]

how do i delete this duplicate comment :(

[@havardmj]

Al ex I'm saying that for space shuttles, they use hydrogen not fuel.

[@chriswiltshire8147]

That is an excellent video, my 2 year old was captivated and cheered every time the upgoer went up!

[@ryumidori000]

Hi Henry, I've been watching your videos for some time now and I really appreciate them a lot. The way you explain things makes it so fun to learn physics not only physics but also anything and everything. Your videos help me to learn something new everyday and it develops my learning ability specially now that I'm taking up law. I hope "thing explainer" can help me explain law in simpler words.

[@samysaid1989]

What was this?? A science lesson for conservatives?

[@screwinglogic4564]

So what do liberals do better?

[@screwinglogic4564]

So what do liberals do better?

[@Holexification]

+samy said Might I add that its conservative policy that accumulates enough money to start these programs. With the kind of public spending the liberals advocate you could probably buy a firecracker and try to get to space with that. NASA has been the worst under the Obama administration.

[@SnifferRiffle]

+ScrewingLogic We don't post the same comment twice.

[@screwinglogic4564]

+Cyborgslayer404d lol. It was accidental but since you need to revert to that instead if an actual argument you must not have anything to prove me wrong

[@arthurthegreat216]

This "ten-hundred" word restriction has actually made it harder to understand what you're talking about, for me at least. It was entertaining though.

[@bandgeek9723]

I'm looking forward to this book. I've had my copy pre-ordered for months.

[@powjamaica]

This has by far been my best move picture by minute energy and matter science!

[@jhondoe3538]

imagine if space wasn't in the 1000 most used words

[@meiscoolbutmo]

This feels like how you would explain space travel to somebody who has never even experienced humans in general

[@claywalker9708]

This is one of my favorite examples of superb communication to a broad audience.

[@gamersquid7cariga408]

I got the book yesterday. My favourite one so far is the US space team's up goer five

[@asdfghyter]

Haha! Did anyone else catch the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference at 0:20? "There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. Its knack lies in learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss." XD

[@trentcard]

Book and movie, hell yeah.

[@mustafaeryurek3617]

It's like "Explain it to me like I'm a four-year-old." I love it!

[@dlbattle100]

You videos already looked a lot like XKCD. In fact, that's what prompted me to see out this video, to see if there was any connection.

[@Adamantium9001]

Minutephysics/XKCD collab? I can die happy now.

[@dinonid1234]

I cannot be happier that the table of pieces everything is made of is in this book.

[@robercano]

Loved the collaboration with Randall. Also I didn't know about Thing Explainer...Ordering it in 3...2...1....

[@evelynguerra3267]

I love this video, I think I will share it with my niece (she is 3) and I THINK she will enjoy it.