Ask an engineer what they do for a living and sometimes you’ll
get a mouthful of jargon and very little understanding of what
he or she actually studies. That’s where the “Ten Hundred Words
of Science” challenge comes in. Inspired by internet comic
artist Randall Munroe, who recently used only the 1,000 most
common words in the English language to describe the Saturn V
rocket, scientists from every field are now experimenting with
this limited word list to explain their own work. Go HERE to
view parse impenetrable scientific terminology into everyday
language when describing complex science! One example is the web
comic panel “The Up-Goer Five” shown as a snapshot below. In
this annotated blueprint, he describes each piece of the complex
rocket that took American astronauts to the moon, eliminating
complicated technical terms in favor of explanations everyone
can understand. Just like with any industry, there is always an
eye to the future. This also rings true regarding the future of
petroleum engineering. I