(Not a retarded repeating version like the one below)

*80s *vintage *geek *scifi

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It doesn't repeat, yet I must watch it twenty times to really enjoy it.

I always loved the way Doc Brown continued with the conversation after Marty called the DeLorean a "sucker":

"Whoa, Doc! Are you saying this sucker is NUCLEAR?!?"
"No, no, this sucker's electrical! But I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity that powers the flux capacitor."

Just makes me laugh that he's so into what he's talking about, he just adopts Marty's vocabulary. Great writing and acting right there.

My favorite movie ever. It's interesting that this occurred just before anyone really considered on a regular basis how big a gig was and not many people questioned his pronunciation. I don't think most people had gig hard drives before this. Now it's all about the terabyte or maybe 1.21 terawatts.? Is that even possible?

"In 2002 the United States used 3.3 terawatts"

terawatt-hours?
or averaged 3.3 terawatts of generation?

Oh, I don't know. I just pulled a quick quote from google.

I see here that the U.S. used 3.35TW in 2004, which is a disgusting 23.5% of worldwide use.

It's disgusting when 76.5% of the world's people live without any electricity at all.

Ok then, the total energy consumed by the USA in 2005, averaged over the year, gives an average energy usage rate of 3.3 terawatts. I think this includes not just energy used in electricity generation, but also energy used in cars, trains, airplanes, boats, etc...

Incidentally, that means we could have powered 2,727 time-traveling DeLoreans for the year.

As for the Doc's pronunciation, I think "jigowatt" is an accepted pronunciation, although not as common as the "gigawatt" that is more common today.

Jiggawatt is the ye` olden time pronounciation of giggawatts.

>> ^cheesemoo:
Ok then, the total energy consumed by the USA in 2005, averaged over the year, gives an average energy usage rate of 3.3 terawatts. I think this includes not just energy used in electricity generation, but also energy used in cars, trains, airplanes, boats, etc...
Incidentally, that means we could have powered 2,727 time-traveling DeLoreans for the year.


No, it doesn't include cars, trains, boats and airplanes. You can't measure electricity usage in combustion engines.

They were measuring energy usage, not electricity usage. Specifically, energy contained in coal, gasoline, etc...

>> ^Payback:
It's disgusting when 76.5% of the world's people live without any electricity at all.


I think it's disgusting I don't have a time traveling DeLorean. I don't pity people who don't have electricity or think I'm disgusting for having it. In fact, some people in the US live 'off the grid' and they like it just fine. Mother Jones magazine has lots of good articles about it and they are good to read. What we're trying to do is educate people who live in areas that don't have electricity about ways to get clean water, use basic solar energy and do other things. They live comfortably.

>> ^videosiftbannedme:
I always loved the way Doc Brown continued with the conversation after Marty called the DeLorean a "sucker":
"Whoa, Doc! Are you saying this sucker is NUCLEAR?!?"
"No, no, this sucker's electrical! But I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity that powers the flux capacitor."
Just makes me laugh that he's so into what he's talking about, he just adopts Marty's vocabulary. Great writing and acting right there.


My favorite line from this movie is, "There's that word again; "heavy". Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?" The genuinely interested way he asks, gets me everytime.