![]() ![]() Room where they hold food, clothes, and extra stuff (below) This room is where they clean the space house’s air and water. People used to sleep there but now they just keep stuff in it. PEOPLE DOOR (Put on space clothes before going through, or you’ll die.) This room has a beautiful view of the Earth. They liked the arm so much they put it on their money. GRABBER ARM This arm was built in a country with lots of snow. This room was built by a group of countries with many different languages who work together a lot. This room is from a country named after the rising sun. SPACE BOAT DOOR (The flying space truck grabbed on here.) PORCH If you want to see what something does when you leave it out in space for a while, you can put it here. To build the space house, we took each piece up in a boat, pushed it until it went really fast, then caught up to the house, and stuck the part to the house. We’ll need to be good at that if we ever want to travel to other worlds. Everyone says it’s a lot of fun.Ī big reason we built the space house was so we could learn to keep people alive and strong in space for months or years without getting sick. Inside the house, normal things like water act very strange, and you can fly around by kicking off the walls. Because the house is falling around the Earth, things inside it hang in the air instead of dropping to the floor. ![]() People from different countries built it and fly up to visit it in space boats. This building flies through space just above the air. Most of the time, there are six people in the house, with each person staying for half a year. They do work for people on the ground, helping to learn how things like flowers and machines work in space. SHARED SPACE HOUSE The people in the house spend their time working, playing, and taking pictures of Earth. Okay, I’m done talking about the book now. But there are lots of other books that explain what things are called. You also need to know what things are called so you can ask questions about them. To really learn about things, you need help from other people, and if you want to understand those people, you need to know what they mean by the words they use. Some people say that there’s no reason to learn big words in the first place-all that matters is knowing what things do, not what they’re called. I could just have fun making up new names for things and trying to explain cool ideas in new ways. Using simple words let me stop worrying so much. After all-when you’re saying things like “space boats” and “water pushers,” everything sounds stupid. I liked writing this book because it made me let go of my fear of sounding stupid. But a lot of the time, I was really just worried that if I used the small words, someone might think I didn’t know the big ones. Sometimes I would use those big words because they were different from the small words in an important way. If you’re building a space boat that’s going to fly around the world, you have to be clear about what shape the world is, and there are some big words that you can use instead of “round.” But most of the time, it doesn’t matter exactly what the shape is, so people just say “round.” When I was in school, I learned about space boats and learned to use lots of big words for things like the shape of the world. Because of how it spins, it’s a little wider around the middle. The world is round, but it’s not exactly round. ![]() One thing that I’ve sometimes used big words for is the shape of the world. Sometimes, that worry has made me use big words when I don’t need to. I’ve spent a lot of my life worried that people will think I don’t know enough. ![]() This page is here to say hello and explain why the book is like this. Each page explains how something important or interesting works, using only the ten hundred words in our language that people use the most. PAGE BEFORE THE BOOK STARTS Hi! This is a book of pictures and simple words. The ten hundred most common words in our languageĬomputer building. The ten hundred words people use the most. THINGS IN THIS BOOK BY PAGE Page before the book starts. ISBN 978-5-6 Book design by Christina Gleason Printed in China SCP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available. RANDALL MUNROE author of What If? and creator of xkcdĮXPLAINER COMPLICATED STUFF IN SIMPLE WORDSĬopyright © 2015 by Randall Munroe ALL RIGHTS RESERVED For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003. THING EXPLAINER C OM P L I C AT E D S T U F F I N S I M P L E WO R D S ![]()
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