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Briansmithtown
21-10-2015, 00:49
Happy Back to the future day everyone!
Al Skierkiewicz
21-10-2015, 07:38
You cannot believe how big it is here in Chicago.
JustinCAD
21-10-2015, 07:42
Can you believe it: After today, all the Back to the Future movies would be taking place entirely in the past! I think that's really freaky to think about.
Aren Siekmeier
21-10-2015, 08:46
You cannot believe how big it is here in Chicago.

Let's go Cubbies!
D_Price
21-10-2015, 09:23
Also here in Pittsburgh it is sort of big (probably not on the scale of Chicago at all). I'm sure there's more then a few references to the Cubs winning the World Series in Chicago? Haha.
TedG
21-10-2015, 09:48
Can you believe it: After today, all the Back to the Future movies would be taking place entirely in the past! I think that's really freaky to think about.
Mind Blown!
I hadn't thought of that before......
TJP123
21-10-2015, 11:02
We don't have our hoverboards yet, but the flux capacitor is an option on the Ford Focus.
http://shop.ford.com/build/focus/?gnav=header-cars#/config/Config%5B%7CFord%7CFocus%7C2016%7C1%7C1.%7C.P3K... ..HAT.GAS.RET.SE.FLU.~FOCUS.%5D
GeeTwo
21-10-2015, 19:22
Mind Blown!
I hadn't thought of that before......

Get used to it. I clearly recall this same moment ca 1984 (Orwell), Sept 13, 1999 (when the nuclear waste dump exploded on the moon per Space 1999, a really cheesy TV show) and 2001 and 2010 (Clarke). Hitting 1975, when Heinlein put a man on the moon, wasn't as exciting, as we beat his time by six years. I certainly didn't imagine that we wouldn't be back on the moon for forty more years (and still counting). :(
hectorcastillo
21-10-2015, 20:26
We don't have our hoverboards yet, but the flux capacitor is an option on the Ford Focus.
http://shop.ford.com/build/focus/?gnav=header-cars#/config/Config%5B%7CFord%7CFocus%7C2016%7C1%7C1.%7C.P3K... ..HAT.GAS.RET.SE.FLU.~FOCUS.%5D

Hoverboards, check

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwSwZ2Y0Ops
GeeTwo
21-10-2015, 21:13
Hoverboards, check

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwSwZ2Y0Ops

They're obviously based on a different principle (more like a hovercraft than the BTTF hoverboard, which appears to be antigravitic or magnetic). Just curious, how long can these run on a single charge (whether that's of a battery or a CO2 cartridge, or something else)?
Whippet
21-10-2015, 21:17
They're obviously based on a different principle (more like a hovercraft than the BTTF hoverboard, which appears to be antigravitic or magnetic). Just curious, how long can these run on a single charge (whether that's of a battery or a CO2 cartridge, or something else)?

It's a superconductor running on a magnetic track below the surface of the skate park. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM0sRctOxQc) Lexus hasn't released any specs on it since a production run would be completely impractical, but I would assume that the nitrogen evaporates rather quickly.