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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
01/05/09

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I think I'd rather have a car that runs on used cooking oil. At least I can enjoy the aroma of french fries while driving in something that doesn't look like a reject from Mad Max...
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TheFuzz53
01/05/09

In reply to Build Your Own Mr. Fusion and Gasify Your Car With Garbage
Yeah, but Mr. Fusion only powered the flux capacitor instead of using plutonium to generate the 1.21 Gigawatts of electricity. You would no longer have to offer to build Lybians a bomb and give them a shoddy bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts in order to come across plutonium.

Unleaded gasoline was needed to power the internal combustion engine, hence the entire premise for Back to the Future III.
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Kaiser-Machead
01/05/09

@TheFuzz53: But then, what was powering the hover converters in part II? I was always trying hard to ignore the fact that the flux capacitor required 1.21 gigawatts of electricity to attain flux dispersal, but at the same time the car needed
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Kaiser-Machead
01/05/09

@Kaiser-Machead: woops!

..to travel at 88mph in order to generate the extra power. I guess Robert Zemekis wanted to one-up Bill & Ted's phone booth.
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ripfire
01/05/09

@Kaiser-Machead: What bothered me with III is that they already beat MadDog Tannen, so what's the rush? They had plenty of time to properly fix the delorian.
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ripfire
01/05/09

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Uhh.. "Small scale"?
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damnelantra™
01/05/09

@ripfire: just slap a plywood spoiler on the top and youll be king of hot import nights!
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ripfire
01/05/09

@damnelantra™: "Is that nitrous?"

"Naw. It's last night's leftovers."
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TBM-Fan
01/05/09

@ripfire: It always starts huge but in the end it is always smaller

look at the first computer ever and compare it with the current one
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G.O.D.
01/05/09

@TBM-Fan: That's what she said... HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA
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ripfire
01/05/09

@Hiroak: Boy, if you thought that was funny, I should've gone with the "will it blend" line.
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