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| Topic | In Back to the Future 3, why can Emmett Brown not get gasoline-- *spoilers* |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/04/19 2:02:05 AM #18: | Sahuagin posted... build new flux capacitor (not as hard as you make it sound) I'd argue it's probably harder than either of us make it sound, considering Doc is the only person on Earth to ever pull it off in that universe, and it took him 30 years to do it. The science would have to be hellishly complicated, and it obviously has extreme power requirements to operate that would dictate other aspects of construction (ie, you'd need tech capable of handling that power draw and not burn out or explode, at the very least). It would be pretty much impossible to build even the most simplistic of 1980s electronics with 1880s tech (even a pocket calculator would be more or less out of the question). I'm assuming TIME TRAVEL TECH is going to be multiple factors beyond a VCR or GameBoy. Sahuagin posted... get 1.21GW into said capacitor Which, from what we've been told, is nearly impossible. It's not just a question of generating the power, it needs to be applied at exactly the right moment. In the absence of plutonium (which he'd never be able to get access to in 1885), he'd have to channel lightning, and as he himself mentions, it's pretty much impossible to predict in advance where lightning will strike. He'd basically have to build some kind of track that would allow a train to travel at 88 mph (which would be dangerous as hell with 1880s train tech) and loop around in a relatively small area (which would make it even more dangerous - derailing would be a constant threat). Then he'd have to find some way to build multiple lightning rods, each of which can channel power directly into the track/train while it's moving, and basically keep the train running every single time a major storm happens in the hopes that he'll get a lucky hit and power up. At which point he'd damn well better hope he got the tech right, because one assumes time travel with defective tech or miscalculations probably fires you into another reality or takes you apart at the molecular level. Yes, he MIGHT be able to do it... but it would take decades of work and resources he has absolutely no access to. It would take a LOT of money he doesn't have - and you can't even assume he'd just bet on tons of old sporting events, because he'd likely lack the practical knowledge. AllstarSniper32 posted... Wait, how do you know what tech is inside the hover board? I don't need to. Because I know that it was made as a commercial product in 2015 (or earlier). We don't use a nuclear reactor to power an iPhone. We use just as much power as we need in commercial tech to get the job done, without ridiculously excessive overkill. Because we have to meet the bottom line to turn a profit. A hoverboard would have just enough lift/power to move the board. You almost certainly wouldn't be able to upscale it to lift a car or more, in the same way I can't upscale novelty "hover" tech toys using magnetic fields to build myself a suit of hover armor I can use to fight crime. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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