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Post by Johnny on Dec 17, 2022 14:06:59 GMT -5
As a student of science, though I knew a flux-capacitor to be an object in fiction, I wondered what would it mean to have such a device? Well in physics (i), flux is the amount of something (like electricity) that’s passing through a given object’s surface and a capacitor is a device that stores electronic charge. So a flux-capacitor may exhibit both these capabilities simultaneously or perhaps it provided a means for flux to be converted to capacitance and vice-versa. That would be a similar concept as magnetic field being converted to electricity (as we do today in a generator) and vice-versa.I If you're curious how that happens, here's a video explaining it simply. (i) ref 1 flux - capacitor  In 1955 Doctor Emmett Brown (in Back to the Future), was inspired by many people (scientists & inventors) here is an image from the film showing portraits of several. Can you recognize who they are?  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2022 15:48:17 GMT -5
As a student of science, though I knew a flux-capacitor to be an object in fiction, I wondered what would it mean to have such a device? Well in physics (i), flux is the amount of something (like electricity) that’s passing through a given object’s surface and a capacitor is a device that stores electronic charge. So a flux-capacitor may exhibit both these capabilities simultaneously or perhaps it provided a mean for flux to be converted to capacitance and vice-versa. That would be a similar concept as magnetic field being converted to electricity (as we do today in a generator) and vice-versa.I If you're curious how that happens, here's a video explaining it simply. (i) ref 1 flux - capacitor View AttachmentIn 1955 Doctor Emmett Brown (in Back to the Future), was inspired by many people (scientists & inventors) here is an image from the film showing portraits of several. Can you recognize who they are? View AttachmentI watched the movie Back To The Future with the Flux Capacitor in the time travel car that Marty McFly uses to go back to save his family. I remember in the film Doc Brown talked about a gigawatts needed for the car to reach the maximum speed to time travel. Before seeing this movie I never heard of a gigawatt before. I have heard of megawatts and kilowatts before but never gigawatts. It is a real thing and it is equal to 1 billion watts or 1000 megawatts. That is some pretty powerful stuff Doc Brown was working with. |
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Post by Easton on Dec 17, 2022 16:39:01 GMT -5
^ A gigawatt is a real thing and it is, indeed, 1 billion watts. To put it in perspective, it would take 3,125,000 photovoltaic panels to produce a single gigawatt of electricity.
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Post by Easton on Dec 17, 2022 16:42:53 GMT -5
In 1955 Doctor Emmett Brown (in Back to the Future), was inspired by many people (scientists & inventors) here is an image from the film showing portraits of several. Can you recognize who they are? View AttachmentLeft to right: Newton, Franklin, Edison, Einstein.
By the way, 'flux capacitor' is not hyphenated. It is only hyphenated in the URL because spaces tend to break the Internet.
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Post by runhard on Dec 18, 2022 8:24:50 GMT -5
I'm positive I could've lived during those days because if my grandparents and my mom did well so can I. I'm a private person who loves solitude and really doesn't need much so I think I'd be hanging out at a cleaner version of Yancy Tucker's pad.
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Post by Honeybee on Dec 26, 2022 19:30:29 GMT -5
Maybe, I could lived on the mountain. Will be different where I lived now. Be challenging for me to lived on mountain.
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Post by tasteoftherecipe on Jan 17, 2023 13:53:50 GMT -5
I pretty much live on Waltons Mountain. Well, I live within the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. There is so much beauty that surrounds me, I love living here. I have lived in or around this area my entire life with the exception of when I attended my University in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Now, there is another aspect to this question I would like to address. I was born in 1947 which is after the Depression was over. Could I have lived on Walton Mountain during the Depression? That would have been a much more difficult challenge don't you know as Miss Emily Baldwin would say. Not nearly having the resources of even a smaller city would have been really tough. We saw on the show how the community played a huge part in making things happen on Waltons Mountain. I think that was fantastic and I could have easily been a part of that. The struggle would have been real, but it could have been done just like it was done for John and Olivia and Ike and Cora Beth and the others.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2023 18:52:34 GMT -5
Sometimes I think how much of this technology we have been given in today's society has been more trouble than it is worth and wish some of it just was invented at all. The internet and Google have put the world at our fingertips and yes for easy access to knowledge that is a wonderful thing. I am a Librarian who has seen the drastic change of how young people use the tools to learn now compared to what it was just a couple of decades ago.
There however are things in my opinion that are not so good about all of this technology we have. One of which in my opinion is the Social Media explosion and how it is being used as a legitimate media outlet. It is one thing for Social Media sites to allow people to connect with one another or do silly dances together or sing songs, but when news is reported and many of it comes across as false that is not the platform for that.
I also feel there are way too many media news outlets. Just on my cable system alone there is at least 30 and it might be more that I haven't even located in the hundreds of channels. The news gets reported and slanted in so many directed directions there is not wonder citizens of the world are so confused at what is going on.
So I just ranted on and basically all I really wanted to say is I do think I could have lived on Waltons Mountain and even during that Depression period. Yes it would have been tough, but I would have done what John Walton did and worked as hard as I possible could.
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Post by jaydub87 on Feb 15, 2023 21:16:48 GMT -5
I think I could’ve made it on Waltons Mountain. I’m good with my hands, I hunt, I fish, and I can raise my own food. If given the choice, the Baldwin house would be the nicest, but I’d go work for John at the sawmill.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2023 16:28:23 GMT -5
Absolutely Not! It is not so much where they lived, but the times they lived in and how they lived I could not have dealt with. Even if I lived the way the Baldwins lived, that would not have been enough. I have been lucky growing up not having to worry about anything monetary or anything like that at all with my family. My needs were always met and most of the time was exceeded.
I had my chores like keeping my room straight, but other than that as long as I remember my mother had cleaners come into the house to clean at least 2 times per week. My father also worked so much he always paid someone to keep care of the outside of the house like the lawn and gardens. There is no way I could have gotten up so early in the morning to feed the chicken and milk the cow and stuff like that.
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