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4 years worth of stupid!
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2020 9:16 pm
by lsc9x
I've been playing this game since 2016 and have spent literally thousands of hours in game, and I just now figured out that the portable fusion reactor for your power armor is the Mr. Fusion home fusion reactor from Back To The Future.
4 years to connect the dots!
DOH!
Re: 4 years worth of stupid!
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 12:37 pm
by _wf_
To be fair, up until 2017 (v0.15) it was Iron Man's arc reactor
Re: 4 years worth of stupid!
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2020 7:36 pm
by lsc9x
LMAO! I did not know that. Hilarious.
Re: 4 years worth of stupid!
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2020 12:06 am
by morsk
Did you notice the GJ value of nuclear fuel yet?
Re: 4 years worth of stupid!
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2020 2:36 am
by lsc9x
1.21 Gj. lol! Thanks for pointing that out.
Technically it was 1.21 gigawatts in the movie, not gigajoules, but it is still 1.21gj!
Re: 4 years worth of stupid!
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2020 7:54 am
by sparr
one watt times one second is one joule
1.21 gigawatts for one second is 1.21 gigajoules
A lightning strike could be approximated as lasting one second
Re: 4 years worth of stupid!
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:11 am
by SirSmuggler
sparr wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 7:54 am
A lightning strike could be approximated as lasting one second
I'm no lightning expert, but that seems a very exegrated estimation. Wikipedia has this to say: "the average duration is 0.2 seconds made up from a number of much shorter flashes (strokes) of around 60 to 70 microseconds"
Re: 4 years worth of stupid!
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 7:44 pm
by Aru
I knew I recognized it from somewhere. I'll probably forget by tomorrow that it's Mr. Fusion and wonder again.
Re: 4 years worth of stupid!
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 1:33 am
by Rjskeet
dont worry it took me just as long to figure out where the reference "there is no spoon" came from . I spent the last 4 years thinking the devs had gone mad and named it jiberish
Re: 4 years worth of stupid!
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 4:49 am
by Theikkru
lsc9x wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 2:36 am
Technically it was 1.21 gigawatts in the movie[...]
It was jiggawatts, not gigawatts.
This post brought to you by pedantry.
Re: 4 years worth of stupid!
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 5:37 am
by Koub
Theikkru wrote: ↑Tue Oct 06, 2020 4:49 am
lsc9x wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 2:36 am
Technically it was 1.21 gigawatts in the movie[...]
It was jiggawatts, not gigawatts.
This post brought to you by pedantry.
Fun fact, in the French dubbed version, it's pronounced Jiggowatts - or gigot-watt - (and it's 2.21, not 1.21 btw). A "gigot" is what's called the upper part of the rear leg of some herbivore like lamb, goat, or deer (the part that corresponds to a human tigh). So every time doc Brown says gigot-watt ... well you get the image.