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Saturn Up-Goer Five

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Ok, so I've been meaning to post this forever : There's a comic strip called "xkcd" (many fans in the geek world), and one of its more notable 'conceits' is a cartoon that tries to explain a complicated topic using only the 1000 most frequently-used words of the English language.

And the topic in question? The Saturn V Rocket! Aka, the "Up-Goer Five" .

Hilarious! As is much of xkcd :D

But it gets better! There's an interactive tool that allows you to compose similar text, flagging non-1000 words as you go. Give it a try, for, say, "I would like to fly to the moon".

And if you can come up with something better than "I would like to fly to the thing that goes around this place" .... I'm buying you a beer! Or a glass of wine! Good luck!

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Re: Saturn Up-Goer Five

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Hah!

"I would like to fly to the rock that flies around this place" passes !
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