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Back to the future 2 was wrong

  • 22-12-2009 5:42pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭


    I'm looking at back to the future 2 right now, and unless they invent hover boards and flying cars in the next five years they were way off.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,763 ✭✭✭Sheeps


    No way...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭Soby


    Sue them man!!!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,365 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    how do you know they won't??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    scanlas wrote: »
    I'm looking at back to the future 2 right now, and unless they invent hover boards and flying cars in the next five years they were way off.

    the fact that a time machine wasnt invented in 1985 didnt throw you? :p


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Any respect I may have had for you before seeing this post is gone, good day to you sir! /glove slap.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 992 ✭✭✭fh041205


    They were right about at least one thing though...............That shark still isn't scary


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,332 ✭✭✭Archeron


    I have a flying car and a hover board...


    No wait, its a Hyundai and an ironing board.

    Close though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭sky88


    ill predict we will have all these things in a year


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭KerranJast


    Helix wrote: »
    the fact that a time machine wasnt invented in 1985 didnt throw you? :p
    And that they got a DeLorean up to 88mph? :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    scanlas wrote: »
    I'm looking at back to the future 2 right now, and unless they invent hover boards and flying cars in the next five years they were way off.
    No the Doc and Marty changed the future, the movie ruined hover boards by using a girly pink one and now nobody wants them anymore.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,836 ✭✭✭Sir Gallagher


    In BTTF1 did Chuck Berry plagiarise himself or Marty McFly? Still stumps me this very day!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Great Scott you're right!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    Not quite the same technology, but...

    http://www.futurehorizons.net/hoverboard.htm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,441 ✭✭✭jhegarty


    scanlas wrote: »
    I'm looking at back to the future 2 right now, and unless they invent hover boards and flying cars in the next five years they were way off.

    So you have been to 5 years in future to check they haven't been invented ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Not quite the same technology, but...

    http://www.futurehorizons.net/hoverboard.htm
    Must....resist.....temptation


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,445 ✭✭✭Jako8


    Must....resist.....temptation

    Think of how cool you'll be. :cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭scanlas


    We might be on course for the 3D shark but we'll probably have to wear 3d glasses.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5 TheRedBaron


    Maybe all these things have been invented. I believe the space time continuim has been disrupted and we are living in an evil parallel 2009. Its my firm belief that Michael O'Leary has a 737 time machine, and he went back to sometime around 1985 and the rest is history. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭baalthor


    They have just over a week to invent all the stuff for 2010: Odyssey 2


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭Seloth


    Your wrong,I have a stash of all this stuff...just you wait


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    I'm still laughing at the prediction of the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series !!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    I'm working on it damnit...
    The last prototype was involved in an "incident" a few years ago.

    I still can't believe the yanks bought that Al Qaeda excuse I gave them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,419 ✭✭✭allanb49


    Flat screen tvs where in bttf2 so he got some stuff right


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭Seloth


    Imagine computer voices kept that Printer one in the film

    "WoUlD YoU lIkE bReAkFaSt","AHHH!...erm...I mena yes"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,459 ✭✭✭Blisterman




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,112 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    baalthor wrote: »
    They have just over a week to invent all the stuff for 2010: Odyssey 2

    When they've finished building all of the space hardware in 2001, I'm sure they'll catch up by 3010.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭Sod'o swords


    scanlas wrote: »
    I'm looking at back to the future 2 right now, and unless they invent hover boards and flying cars in the next five years they were way off.

    Because of course that was the most improbable part of that Movie.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭bildo


    allanb49 wrote: »
    Flat screen tvs where in bttf2 so he got some stuff right

    Good point, virtually no sci fi writers saw the death of crt coming


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    baalthor wrote: »
    They have just over a week to invent all the stuff for 2010: Odyssey 2

    Does everything on 2010: Odyssey 2 take place in the first week of January ?


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    If I take out my 3g modem, get this laptop in the car and accelerate up to 88 mph will this thread disappear into the past or the distant future?
    Here's hoping.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Am I the only one to note the irony of this argument on the internet?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭mukki


    when i was in primary school 1988 ish, one of the lads in my class had a cousin who lived in "america", and he had a hoverboard

    he was telling me it used helium


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭Agent J


    *sips tea from BTTF mug*

    There will be no critisim of Back to the Future.
    Ever.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭scanlas


    Am I the only one to note the irony of this argument on the internet?

    I don't remember the internet being in Back to The Future 2....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭Ostrom


    A Mr. Fusion would be more useful. Also a self drying jacket and second-accurate weather prediction! Didnt nike release the shoes a few months back?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    KerranJast wrote: »
    And that they got a DeLorean up to 88mph? :D
    The speedo actually only read to 85mph due to some stupid government law at the time.though it did over 100mph!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 930 ✭✭✭*giggles*


    But it's Marty McFly:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    uncledoc.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Whatever about BTTF and 2001, the big question is whether Orwell was right and it's just taken us 25 years to notice....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭poisonated


    mukki wrote: »
    when i was in primary school 1988 ish, one of the lads in my class had a cousin who lived in "america", and he had a hoverboard

    he was telling me it used helium


    yeah kids say all sorts of crap!

    I love that trilogy,especially the first one!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,844 ✭✭✭py2006


    Wow, this is heavy!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Of course Orwell was right: we have to control even our facial expressions in case one of the many cameras picks up something that could be construed as a slight against the one-party dictatorship controlling a third of the planet; even our thoughts have to be controlled while scientists work on a way of actually reading them; love/affection is not allowed between individuals - devotion can only be to the party; sex must not be pleasurable - it is only for pro-creational purposes, and scientists are currently working on destroying the orgasm (I was a member of the Junior Anti Sex League when I was younger); history is constantly being rewritten; we live in unspeakable squalour; if we commit a crime (e.g. being suspected of thinking anti government thoughts) we are subjected to the most horrific torture imaginable and have our minds reprogrammed, then we are airbrushed from history.

    I could go on - but yes, definitely, we're living in the nightmarish world Orwell envisioned.

    Back to BTTF 2 - yes, I take issue with Café 80s. That's more of a past five years thing - 90s nostalgia will be where it's at in 2015.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 yousername


    I tried to make a hoover car, but it all went wrong............and now i need to buy a new vacuum.


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