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| Topic | In Back to the Future 3, why can Emmett Brown not get gasoline-- *spoilers* |
| Sahuagin 11/04/19 1:05:12 AM #8: | the first hard part would be affording everything. I assume he somehow managed to purchase a working locomotive and used that as the basis of his next machine rather than a de lorean. (doing some cursory research, it would cost maybe around $10,000 in today's money for a used locomotive in the 1800s, so maybe it's not even that bad if I got that right (further reading suggests it may be 5-10x higher than that though)). flux capacitor could be easy or not so easy depending what it actually is, since it's not explained. would probably require melting and casting metal but he's working as a blacksmith already, so np. (but he can also redesign it anyway, so that's completely open.) and then, the next hard part would be the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity which was ridiculous enough to make 1955 Doc go crazy for a few moments. not a physicist or electrical engineer so not sure how absurd it would be to generate that in 1885. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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