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June 27, 2012 at 8:24 pm #1053362
Today is the day “in the future” that Marty McFly travelled to in Back to the Future!
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June 27, 2012 at 10:00 pm #1255430Wanna use my flux capacitor?
June 28, 2012 at 4:00 am #1255439It was actually October 21, 2015
June 28, 2012 at 10:25 am #1255433I know, thought it was funny though. 🙂
June 28, 2012 at 10:43 am #1255431@barrettone 485663 wrote:
It was actually October 21, 2015
It is, I don’t know why that clock says that particualr date
June 28, 2012 at 11:37 am #1255434June 28, 2012 at 6:13 pm #1255429Oh you bastard. That’s ruined my day now.
June 28, 2012 at 6:28 pm #1255423didn’t want to spoil the joke but I noticed it straight away, bear in mind the 80s was when I first started getting interested in electronics and there were really subtle things what gave it away as a photoshop (this reminds me I was going to get the MSF clock properly going again with the remote 7 segment displays but there is a obscure issue where a spike gets in on the PSU rails and the master display goes into Japanese :crazy: – OK it would do that being a hitachi protocol display but I don’t understand Japanese anyway 😥 )
June 28, 2012 at 6:45 pm #1255440@barrettone 485663 wrote:
It was actually October 21, 2015
That means within the next three years they’ll invent the hoverboard? Yay!
June 28, 2012 at 7:12 pm #1255432The prank was also pulled last year too but on june 5th
June 28, 2012 at 8:07 pm #1255424Why June? if they’d been patient and kept the joke until October the pranksters might have fooled more people. Bear in mind the target audience for such a joke is going to include a significant number of electronics engineers who play around with 80s digital display technology as a hobby – sometimes jokes, like good booze, cigars etc, are worth keeping in storage until the right moment and putting in effort for presentation and attention to detail 😉
June 29, 2012 at 2:39 pm #1255436that excludes most of the internet users then 😉
June 29, 2012 at 2:47 pm #1255425@lauteque 485788 wrote:
that excludes most of the internet users then 😉
depends how old they are and whether they were into computers when Back to the Future was first shown :laugh_at:
June 29, 2012 at 2:57 pm #1255437I meant specifically [waiting for)the right moment and putting in effort for presentation and attention to detail is not a typical of the usual internet user.
The sloppiness of this joke proves my point I think. 🙂June 29, 2012 at 3:11 pm #1255426actually looking at the original the film used the same artistic license (to be fair its only something you’d notice if you are really into old school electronics going back to early 80s or even late 70s. and had recently been using similar displays), but back then the “correct” display and associated driver circuitry would have been a bit pricier than the ones they used. I don’t think they are that cheap even today or I would have bought one to play with at some point.. even those LED colours were pricier than the standard red or yellow and a blue one would have put that display way above budget for a film prop ( might have been late 85 I saw a article in Electronics and Wireless World about blue LEDs and they were something like £8-£10 for a single LED :yakk: )
and if I even had a time machine I’d be as inclined to set it back to 1985 as to go into the 21st century, but then PV really would be plagued by laaag as many of our circuits would be knocked back to 9600 bps max and 1200 bps from most homes 😥
June 29, 2012 at 3:20 pm #1255438again I wasn’t judging the intrinsic quality of the photoshop or the materials used in the movie, more the fact that pretending it’s BttF (awkward acronym) day twice in a row to fool people on a media that allows instant double checking of facts is a bit sloppy.
June 29, 2012 at 4:06 pm #1255427no hoverboards yet but someones built the car (not sure about the apple dock though, I think it would have been better with the old skool display) :laugh_at:
http://mashable.com/2012/06/27/back-to-the-future-hoax/#58125The-Electric-DeLorean
June 30, 2012 at 10:52 am #1255422It’s irrelevant!
June 30, 2012 at 5:17 pm #1255435@Dr Bunsen 485906 wrote:
It’s irrelevant!
Thief :laugh_at:
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June 30, 2012 at 5:39 pm #1255428I was reading some BBC research papers, might post some links but they are full on bearded boffin level and I barely understand them myself. The BBC are often a law unto themselves but they did come up with some interesting ideas… It then dawned on me that if you put a bunch of BBC engineers in one room and asked them to build a spaceship/time machine and asked them to work with British Telecom to provide all the communications links, you would certainly end up (several months later) with something like the TARDIS (notorious for unreliability and drifting into random places)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/researchanddevelopment/2012/02/what-does-currenttime-mean-in.shtml
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