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New xkcd Book Simply Explains Questions You Didn't Know You Had
Wait, what would happen if a Mars rover sprung a flat tire?
Randall Munroe, a guy who famously ditched his job building robots at NASA to draw the xkcd web comic, announced via blog post this morning that he’s working on a new book due out this fall. Nerds, get ready to pre-order.
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, is, uh, kind of self-explanatory. Munroe tackles thorny questions—What’s inside a ball-point pen? What happens if I press this button on the microwave?—with a series of annotated blueprints. Here’s his sketch demystifying NASA’s Curiosity rover rolling around Mars: