Anybody know how to build a flux capacitor?

coloradodem2005

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Wed Jan-05-05 03:46 PM
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Anybody know how to build a flux capacitor?

I need to know, since it is what makes time travel possible.

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obreaslan

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Wed Jan-05-05 03:47 PM
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1. I do, but I just ran out of Flux....

Crap!

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Bertha Venation

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Wed Jan-05-05 03:47 PM
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2. First you prepare to hang a clock on your bathroom wall, but slip while

standing on the toilet to do so . . . .

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edbermac

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Wed Jan-05-05 03:48 PM
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3. Where...or rather when, are you headed for?

Just curious...

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coloradodem2005

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Wed Jan-05-05 03:56 PM
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12. 1955.

Actually, I want to go to 1985 and pretend that that is my time for a short while, then I want to go back to 1955, then back to 1985, forward to 2015, back in time to a messed up version of 1985, then back to 1955 to fix it. Then I want to go back to 1885. Then back to 1985 like that is my home time. Then come back to the reality that my time is 2005. Isn't it convenient that our current year ends with a five? :)

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Not_Giving_Up

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Wed Jan-05-05 03:49 PM
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4. You have to generate 1.21 jigawatts

Remember? Plutonium! Umm, I don't think you can get that very easily.

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NewJeffCT

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Wed Jan-05-05 03:51 PM
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8. luckily, you have the clock tower!

In the town of Hill Valley...

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dean_dem

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Wed Jan-05-05 03:59 PM
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13. 1.21. JIGAWATTS!!!

It can't be done! In the 80s, I'm sure Plutonium is available at every corner drug store, but in 1955, its a little hard to come by!

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bluestateguy

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Wed Jan-05-05 03:50 PM
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5. Ask "John Titor"

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quispquake

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Wed Jan-05-05 03:50 PM
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6. Ask this person:

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politicaholic

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Wed Jan-05-05 03:50 PM
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7. Damn, I left the napkin with the instructions at home...

but i'll try to build a replica in mashed potatoes over lunch.

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underpants

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Wed Jan-05-05 03:51 PM
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9. I had one but I sold it on ebay

Sorry

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commander bunnypants

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Wed Jan-05-05 03:52 PM
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10. Why not just biuild a warp ship

and circumnavigate the sun. Not quaranteed though. You might end up in the early 21st century and it was pretty shitty

CB circa 3215

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ProfessorGAC

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Wed Jan-05-05 04:08 PM
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16. That's What I Did

After the flux capacitor thing turned out to be just so much hooey, i just built a warp ship, and found those people looking for the Tox Utat. Now, i can travel time.
The Professor

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NewJeffCT

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Wed Jan-05-05 03:53 PM
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11. I stymied some electrical engineers on that once

My junior year at UConn, I had an electrical engineering major as a roommate. Nice guy that I'd known since junior high... but, he and a couple of his geeky buddies (including 1 or 2 Indian guys) were discussing capacitors for one of their classes and I interjected myself and said that they could solve their problem with a flux capacitor... they missed the joke, however.

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tigereye

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Wed Jan-05-05 04:03 PM
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14. one year at my husband's holiday work party

one of the heads of their software/robotics design company was given a "flux capacitor" as a joke - a bunch of their hardware people rigged one up. It was very funny.

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ProfessorGAC

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Wed Jan-05-05 04:06 PM
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15. Yeah, But That's A Myth

They don't work worth a darn. I built one. Bought the deLorean, bought the black market plutonium and installed it, and everything. But nothin'!
The Professor

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da_chimperor

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Wed Jan-05-05 04:10 PM
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17. Simple. Get two tin cans, tape them together, and boom. There ya go

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MissMarple

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Wed Jan-05-05 04:18 PM
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18. Hubby claimed his friend's was broken. Much hilarity ensued

with the children until he explained:

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