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In the above scene, Dr. Emmett Brown is transporting his dog, Einstein, one minute into the future. Einstein arrives shortly after this cut ends.
Not so fast! Schechner at the blog Overthinking It has a few questions. He is troubled by the fact that Einstein arrives in exactly the same place as he departed from. Making a few rudimentary calculations, he figures that the earth would have moved 1,123.17 miles in space – this taking into account only the rotation of the earth on its axis and its orbit around the sun, with no mention of the distance traveled by the solar system itself, or the galaxy.
He arrives back at the parking lot exactly one minute in the future – well, not exactly. Schechner calculates that the departure and arrival watches might be off just a tad, say ~1 millisecond. For a dog to travel 1,122.17 miles in one millisecond, he would have to travel six times the speed of light in a vacuum – backward. Since we all know that is impossible (at the very least, he’d be traveling backward in time – not forward), there is only one conclusion to be drawn:
The movie is a hoax!
And the two sequels as well. Another government lie.
Mark, how could you say Back To the Future was a hoax.
Wasn’t mid eastern terrorists buying nuclear bomb components?
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Swede – you are incomparable. When you have something on your mind, you look for the faintest link to attach it to. I’ve come to admire that about you.
You didn’t link!
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In a controlled society, subjects’ comments are limited to certain parameters.
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Fortunately this is not a controlled society. We are subject only to the mood swings of the spam filter.
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