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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 6736736" data-attributes="member: 8863">I  was going to start a topic titled, "Where's my Freakin' Hoverboard", but it was going to be posted today so it would have the proper date of October 21, 2015.  It would have been posted at midnight of course, but then I wasn't sure which time zone to use -- the earliest time zone for 10/21/2015, GMT, my local time (Eastern), or Pacific Time (since Hill Valley is in California), and clearly I was going into overgeek with it.  I'll just post what I was going to say here (various observations about things in the movie not limits solely to tech).The hoverboard probably isn't a great idea to pursue anyway, because of all the concerns about safety.  It's even worse with flying cars because look how bad people drive in just two dimensions.  You you really want all the accidents that would occur with flying cars?Has Gray's Sports Almanac  been published yet?I wonder if the cafe with the Max Headroom-styled talking heads of Reagan and Ayatollah Khomeini  are popular with people who don't like the recent nuclear talks with Iran in that version of 2015.Where the hell did Doc Brown get that goofy outfit he's wearing?  Did a clown sell him that getup or something, because who dresses like that today?  What's with the clear plastic tie?  A lot of the clothes are kind of 80s styles on crack, but that stuff went badly out of style back in the early 90s.  (Or AFAIK, because I completely ignore style and fashion).Finally, Mr. Fusion.  Consider the implications here.  It's apparently a small fusion generator that runs on garbage.  Our continuing and failed attempts to achieve economical fusion power is based around using hydrogen (specifically deuterium if i'm not mistaken, but I'm not going to get overly picky about isotopes here).  Doc Brown fuels this thing up with waste food,  which is going to be complex organic molecules, mostly hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen with traces of other elements.  Then he tosses an empty beer can in so this thing can fuse aluminum as well.  You know what it would be like to has this kind of energy tech?  We wouldn't be worrying about  the environmental problems we have with energy production today, and it would also take care of some pollution issues as well.    Forget the hoverboard, where's my freakin' Mr. Fusion?!</blockquote>

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