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Space Travel Explained - Simply
Nov 12, 2015 12:05:46   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
here is an explanation of space travel using the most commonly used 1,000 words. Cute.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a18143/minute-physics-xkcd-space-travel-simple-words/

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Nov 12, 2015 12:42:38   #
MtnMan Loc: ID
 
jerryc41 wrote:
here is an explanation of space travel using the most commonly used 1,000 words. Cute.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a18143/minute-physics-xkcd-space-travel-simple-words/


I believe rocket is more common than upgoer. I've never heard upgoer as a word. Even if two words I think rocket is more common than goer.

But the idea is interesting.

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Nov 12, 2015 15:00:51   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
MtnMan wrote:
I believe rocket is more common than upgoer. I've never heard upgoer as a word. Even if two words I think rocket is more common than goer.

But the idea is interesting.

You never heard of an upgoer? What do you call those big things with wings that fly people all over the world?! :D

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Nov 12, 2015 15:50:21   #
MtnMan Loc: ID
 
jerryc41 wrote:
You never heard of an upgoer? What do you call those big things with wings that fly people all over the world?! :D


Airplanes.

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Nov 12, 2015 16:29:53   #
TucsonCoyote Loc: Tucson AZ
 
Yeah.....I didn't watch too much after the "ten hundred" to say a thousand......!
No need to dumb down America any more than it is already!
Sorry ! :thumbdown:

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Nov 13, 2015 06:07:48   #
Sirsnapalot Loc: Hammond, Louisiana
 
TucsonCoyote wrote:
Yeah.....I didn't watch too much after the "ten hundred" to say a thousand......!
No need to dumb down America any more than it is already!
Sorry ! :thumbdown:


Yeah, what's next, drum language?

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Nov 13, 2015 11:56:59   #
George II Loc: Fayetteville, Georgia
 
Jerry, I liked it, definitely using the KISS method.

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Nov 13, 2015 17:40:33   #
OldEarl Loc: Northeast Kansas
 
George II wrote:
Jerry, I liked it, definitely using the KISS method.


As my first physics professor (Ludwig von Drake) would say. "An upgoer is ultimately a down comer. Ja!"

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Nov 17, 2015 19:47:49   #
mslubner Loc: Redskin Ridge, Texas
 
do we still use space capsules?

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Nov 17, 2015 20:49:51   #
TucsonCoyote Loc: Tucson AZ
 
mslubner wrote:
do we still use space capsules?

Just little blue pills mslubner ! :XD: :thumbup:

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