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[–]banjoman63 395 points396 points ago

All this talk of hoverboards is completely misleading. In the first Back to the Future, Marty alters the timeline by dismantling a kid's scooter to fashion a makeshift skateboard, hence giving a kickstart to skateboard technology.

Since such a timeline alteration wasn't made in our universe, we still have many more years to wait for our hoverboards.

[–]phish92129 134 points135 points ago

I'm not upvoting you because I'm happy about that...I'm upvoting you for keeping the dream alive.

[–]ridik_ulass 38 points39 points ago

quantum levatation, we are nearly there.

[–]BlazeOrangeDeer 29 points30 points ago

Just need superconducting roads everywhere. And it still won't work on water, goddammit.

[–]ZeeHypnotist 26 points27 points ago

Unless you've got power!

[–]PlNG 14 points15 points ago

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I think that Asian's laugh is the creepiest part of that entire threat.

[–]studmuffffffin 6 points7 points ago

You bojo!

[–]ridik_ulass 0 points1 point ago

if there is a will there is a way.

[–]hahaLoLguy 0 points1 point ago

Levitating water you say??

[–]muttur 1 point2 points ago

Room temperature superconducting roads. Considering the tech doesn't even exist yet, I'd say we won't get there in time :(

[–]anonymousbahai 1 point2 points ago

You could make the tracks (electro?) magnetic and the boards superconductive and get the same effect. It's still difficult, but it would be significantly less impossible that way. The tech for that actually exists (videos available somewhere in this thread) ... obviously, it's not altogether practical for large-scale rollouts, what with requiring magnetic tracks and liquid nitrogen and all, but quantum levitation is actually fairly promising as future-tech goes.

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    [–]Damadawf 37 points38 points ago

    From wikipedia, hope is restored!

    Skateboarding was probably born sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s when surfers in California wanted something to surf when the waves were flat. No one knows who made the first board...

    Note how nobody knows where the "first" skateboard came from.

    [–]banjoman63 14 points15 points ago

    Interesting! And Hill Valley is in California, too!

    However, I do have to point out that we must assume Marty wasn't the first person to create a skateboard, since the Back to the Future Trilogy uses a dynamic understanding of time (i.e. the timeline can be altered). It does show that our margin of error to 2015 is much more narrow than I originally thought!

    [–]Damadawf 2 points3 points ago

    Wow, I didn't even see the 'Hill Valley' part. This just keeps getting better and better!

    [–]DutchPrisoner 1 point2 points ago

    But maybe there was some inventor in Hill Valley (Doc Brown) who caught wind of Marty's "skateboard" in 1955 and began advanced development of it, especially since Marty was maybe the first person to ever use it out of pure necessity, to get away from someone chasing him. This pushed people to think more progressively about the possibilities of skateboards than they otherwise would, thus still speeding up the development of the skateboard by, oh, 5 or 10 years...

    [–]Tabisco 3 points4 points ago

    I'll grant you this, but I'm still holding out for another 15 Jaws films

    [–]Womec 2 points3 points ago

    Also engineers would be making this happen, not scientists.

    [–]wcmendo707 0 points1 point ago

    Engineering is an applied field of science, hence it is also a science- math, chem, physics all of which are sciences and needed in engineering. It's the science of making things

    [–]Womec 0 points1 point ago

    Guess I need to back this up...

    http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/engineering-is-not-science

    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090324082845AAPJFz6

    http://chemistry.about.com/u/ua/educationemployment/engineervsscientist.htm

    http://www.issues.org/18.3/p_wulf.html

    "Engineering is not science or even just "applied science." Whereas science is analytic in that it strives to understand nature, or what is, engineering is synthetic in that it strives to create"

    [–]wcmendo707 1 point2 points ago

    I might not have communicate what I was trying to say properly. The terms scientist and engineer should never be confused. That being said both terms are very broad, and there is science used in engineering, such as chem. Engineering creates, like you quoted, using principles of science that have been established. Engineers creating things that help scientist- and many other things like buildings, cars, power ect- understand nature like you also quoted, such as the instruments in biology or chem. Scientists are not engineers. Engineers are engineers for most but they are also scientists. There contributions might not be as direct as a traditional scientist but they are still part of the science community.

    [–]jcballer126 1 point2 points ago

    Genius!

    [–]Lasercat77 -1 points0 points ago

    I thought he dismantled some kind of cart.

    [–]banjoman63 1 point2 points ago

    Scooter/cart-ish thing.

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      [–]biggie101 129 points130 points ago

      I'm secretly hoping that hoverboards already exist in a secret lab. They're just waiting until 2015 to release them... BECAUSE they can

      [–]StickSauce 25 points26 points ago

      Along with hover conversions, refrenceless 3D, Weather Control, Near-Instant food rehydration, Asians owns American assets en-mass (wait), DOUBLE TIE.

      [–]OlyBx 15 points16 points ago

      I lol'd at this. Fun fact: the asian guy who fires the elder McFly is my dad's cousin. I'll check back in three years to see if he's fired "MAC FLIE"

      [–]jscoppe 3 points4 points ago

      "MAC FRIE"

      Tell your dad's cousin I said hi. :P

      [–]sigilvii 1 point2 points ago

      If in 2015 this guy made a comeback online, parodying his character, he would be an internet god. Make it happen, OlyBx. I'm RES tagging you 'MacFry Guy'.

      [–]ddplz 3 points4 points ago

      Truth is though, modern smartphones, computers, satellite systems, and fiber-optic internet are way more impressive than those things.

      Although weather control is pretty cool... And we have 3d (sort of) and pretty damn good ovens these days. *those magnet ovens.

      [–]jrgolden42 2 points3 points ago

      I am going to start wearing Double Ties in 3 years

      [–]ridik_ulass 2 points3 points ago

      look up quantum levitation. you are not far off.

      [–]chased_by_bees 4 points5 points ago

      Except for the liquid nitrogen part.

      [–]ridik_ulass 1 point2 points ago

      are you saying the cool dry ice type of effect pouring cloud like steam off the board wouldn't make it better?

      [–]kilo4fun 2 points3 points ago

      Too much energy. You would have to have insane energy density in something the size of a skateboard to keep someone levitated for any reasonable amout of time, no matter the technology. Until we get mini nuclear batteries, it won't happen.

      [–]Surch 3 points4 points ago

      Pretty sure they said in the commentary or a making of show that those hover boards were a real thing, but were not safe in the slightest. Prototype sort of thing.

      [–]gecko 4 points5 points ago

      Sadly, they did, but it was a joke. There are plenty of production shots where you can see that the actors are on wires, with the boards tied onto their feet. I'll add a link to one if I can find one, but my googlefu is weak this evening.

      [–]daysoley2 -1 points0 points ago

      In order for buff and his friends to have had a hoverboard in 2015 they would have had to have been on the market for a couple years prior...once this item would be released the price would be ridiculous. Only the upper class would be able to afford it and buff is more towards the lower middle class. When the skateboard was big only rich spoiled kids had them and only when they were bored with it and sales dropped did it become a fad. With that being said if they are stored somewhere we could expect it in the next year or so

      [–]flibolimay 0 points1 point ago

      Griff could easily have stolen some from someone else.

      [–]daysoley2 0 points1 point ago

      Very true...in fact he most probably did

      [–]RichOfTheJungle 64 points65 points ago

      I'm pretty sure you can buy those shoes now.

      [–]bumblebeesscareme 26 points27 points ago

      There are self-lacing shoes too. A woman invented them (I think Nike has some patents too). Here is her kickstarter (ended already):

      http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1230434124/power-laces

      [–]nickjadams1 15 points16 points ago

      New business idea. Patent everything you see in sci-fi movies.

      [–]retneftw 7 points8 points ago

      dibs on matrix

      [–]fish4me 9 points10 points ago

      Dibs on death star.

      [–]retneftw 6 points7 points ago

      shit

      [–]JackBauerSaidSo 4 points5 points ago

      Dibs on police phone booths!

      [–]ajmst1lt 2 points3 points ago

      wow that covers both Bill and Ted's phone booth and the Doctor's Police box.

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        [–]SAGAN_IN_MY_ANUS 3 points4 points ago

        Dibs on the Star Trek PADD

        Oh wait...

        [–]JHarman16 0 points1 point ago

        I call video games.
        Edit: BFG 9000 here I come. I am now accepting highest bidder government contracts for patent rights.

        [–]MfDoomz 6 points7 points ago

        Nike MAGs

        [–]IMongoose 3 points4 points ago

        Not self lacing, really disappointed.

        [–]ddplz 2 points3 points ago

        Honestly how hard is it to throw in a tiny mortar and a few watch batteries???

        [–]zuccah 2 points3 points ago

        Somehow I feel that putting ordnance on your shoes would be a bad idea.

        [–]Hipst3rHunt3r 1 point2 points ago

        Or the best idea.

        [–]zuccah 0 points1 point ago

        Brings a whole new meaning to "shoe bomber".

        [–]dude_why_would_you 1 point2 points ago

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yiSdjwi_bg&feature=relmfu

        [–]instantcopy2000 0 points1 point ago

        Not that it has anything to do with anything, but "she" is transgendered

        [–]chajimak 1 point2 points ago

        They released a few pairs last year, and donated the money to charity. They were going for thousands of dollars.

        [–]sporkinum 0 points1 point ago

        Almost the whole package, and a bitchin' beard too! http://celebkicks.com/2012/09/17/brian-wilson-wearing-nike-air-mag/

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          [–]Txromperstomper 50 points51 points ago

          My argument to this is the same as the flying car. We still find it necessary as a society to put SPEED BUMPS on roads. There's no way we can trust people to move in 3 directions when we have to put extra concrete on the roads to make people slow down.

          [–]TouchdownJesus 6 points7 points ago

          And possibly the best side ive heard. Never thought that way. Thank you

          [–]burnt_chicken 1 point2 points ago

          What about a self-driving flying car? That would be the only way I'd trust people with them.

          [–]karnim 2 points3 points ago

          We have hover cars, and we have self-driving cars (though they're not public yet). You'd probably have to pay millions and millions of dollars for one though. A hoverboard could also definitely exist, but it would be super expensive.

          What you should look forward to is stuff like the google glasses, which in 3 years, may allow you to at least pretend you have a hoverboard.

          [–]ArchitectOfInception 0 points1 point ago

          I don't trust the general public for shit with flying cars. Maybe cars that hover a foot or two off the ground, but not flying cars.

          [–]GeneralMakaveli 0 points1 point ago

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsFfBB2W7IA

          [–]crabougloum 16 points17 points ago

          Done!

          [–]tripstuff 2 points3 points ago

          Uh, yeah...that definitely fucking counts. Anything close to what people would consider a "hover-board" will stem from this technology.

          [–]laughingplague 0 points1 point ago

          That doesn't even kind of count.

          [–]Bashasaurus 14 points15 points ago

          You've got a computer in your pocket that can be used to retrieve virtually any information you want, takes high quality video, holds more music then the average person used to own and can communicate with the entire globe. It may not be a hoverboard but I'm not complaining.

          [–]gryffon5147 15 points16 points ago

          It'll happen when 80's style TVs become popular again.

          [–]powergeeks 10 points11 points ago

          Again?

          [–]Fairchild660 24 points25 points ago

          Aparently it was popular about 30 years ago.

          [–]ArchitectOfInception 0 points1 point ago

          Fashion tend's to repeat itself.

          [–]classy_stegasaurus 0 points1 point ago

          So.... 2011?

          [–]Samuelgin 10 points11 points ago

          There's no way we'll be able to develop that hip of a shoe by 2015

          [–]toounfunny 12 points13 points ago

          already came out about a year ago

          [–]jargonista 36 points37 points ago

          This shit. Again?

          [–]ekillian 6 points7 points ago

          I don't understand how it keeps popping up.

          [–]Mzsickness 1 point2 points ago

          There is a mathematical formula hidden somewhere that shows the amount of posts versus how much time is left. The rate of posts will increase exponentially most likely as we move closer to the date.

          [–]Yorrieborrie 6 points7 points ago

          We've collectively been beating the crap out of this horse since back to the future came out, so... Yeah. This shit again.

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            [–]LOUDNOISES11 4 points5 points ago

            theres an ok song about exactly this, by Australian rapper Seth Sentry called Dear science

            [–]thudcode5 1 point2 points ago

            That song is fantastic.

            [–]mosnil 12 points13 points ago

            Scientists ≠ Engineers

            [–]jscoppe 1 point2 points ago

            Because that's what's wrong; they're asking the wrong people.

            Yeah, that's the ticket...

            [–]Mzsickness 0 points1 point ago

            Engineers are scientists. Anyone who uses the scientific method is a scientist to some extent. Scientist is an extremely broad term.

            [–]andrewtheernst 0 points1 point ago

            scientists come up with theories to explain natural phenomena, engineer use analytical skills to provide solutions to problems.... i don't think they are the same at all

            [–]guessthequote 5 points6 points ago

            Buttheads.

            [–]jrgolden42 0 points1 point ago

            Quit being a butthead, butthead!

            [–]potentialredditor 3 points4 points ago

            Nike already provided the shoes. We're halfway there!

            [–]djguerito 2 points3 points ago

            enough...

            [–]jackovski1991 2 points3 points ago

            Engineers*

            [–]MarkLangley 2 points3 points ago

            I don't know, three years is pretty quick for those fancy tennis shoes

            [–]CoreyTrevor1 2 points3 points ago

            I think you mean engineers!

            [–]kavorka2 1 point2 points ago

            Even if it could be done, seems crazy dangerous.

            [–]joephus420 4 points5 points ago

            Lots of things are crazy dangerous, doesn't mean that aren't a blast!

            [–]safteyguy 2 points3 points ago

            People's ankles would rip if they fell But ya know free food

            [–]drcowbell 1 point2 points ago

            I thought Nike already had those shoes.

            [–]undragonslayer 1 point2 points ago

            Is there a reason we (other than expense) that we haven't simply used superconducting magnets to do this?

            [–]cowfishduckbear 5 points6 points ago

            Actually, someone has already done just that (in experiments). Behold, "quantum levitation":

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyOtIsnG71U

            [–]anonymousbahai 1 point2 points ago

            It's a little bit rough around the edges, but check out what I found using that same tech:

            http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-10/video-quantum-levitating-hoverboard-lets-students-glide-air-or-magnets

            Obviously, magnetic infrastructure will be the primary limitation for the roll-out...

            [–]cowfishduckbear 0 points1 point ago

            You rock, thanks so much for the followup video. Given what you showed, they had better finish in 3 years, OR ELSE!

            [–]redlinezo6 3 points4 points ago

            Are you going to put oppositely polarized magnets in every sidewalk/street?

            [–]St0n3dguru 2 points3 points ago

            You could just mix something in with the wet concrete to make it magnetic.

            [–]redlinezo6 4 points5 points ago

            Like... Magnets?

            [–]undragonslayer 0 points1 point ago

            Yes. The project wouldn't present many more problems than the National Highway System did. Apart from acquiring a fuckton of magnets

            [–]GoBadgersDP 3 points4 points ago

            Water, fire, air and dirt

            Fucking magnets, how do they work?

            And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist

            Y’all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed.

            [–]gecko 0 points1 point ago

            The big issue is that turning and stopping would be extremely complicated, if not borderline impossible—but that's okay, because you'd be completely unable to stand on the thing without falling over.

            Skateboards, rollerblades, and so on, allow you to turn quickly because they firmly grip the pavement. Hoverboards don't grip anything at all; you'd be entirely reliant on air resistance to allow you to turn. Planes manage that fine, but they have a very large surface area oriented in the direction of transit that they can use to get enough force to turn, which a hoverboard, by design, lacks.

            There's also the issue of stability. A helicopter works because the rotors are huge compared to the actual craft, so you have a very large area providing a (relatively) even force in all directions. Even if we assume that the entire bottom of the hoverboard generates roughly even force, there is NOTHING to keep the thing level; leaning just a little to the right or left would move your entire center of gravity off anything that the levitation device could hope to rectify. So 99% of your interaction with a hoverboard would look like Doc stepping on Marty's at the beginning of Back to the Future 3. (The remaining 1% would be you standing on it for a split second yelling "LOOK AT THIS.")

            We might eventually have a hoverboard-like device, but it won't actually look anything like the hoverboards Marty & Co. ride on. I'd expect something that looks a lot more like a UFO.

            [–]undragonslayer 0 points1 point ago

            Maglevs seem to handle stopping easily enough. And in regards to the instability couldn't it be controlled by a computer that instantlyish calculates the forces required to keep the board stable (kind of like the Falcon 9 rocket but with magnets instead of explosions)?

            [–]much_longer_username 0 points1 point ago

            If I was designing such a thing, I would design it with multiple vectored repulsors and pulse them such as to apply more or less power in certain directions to make turns and adjust for stability. Sure, it'd require a bit of CPU, but we're talking about hoverboards, not simple machines.

            [–]tripstuff 0 points1 point ago

            I imagine you'd have to be on some sort of a set path. They'd build skateparks with these magnets set up so you could mess around and have a good time. Definitely wouldn't be like 'street-skating,' it would be more of its own thing. You wouldn't be in control of up-down, position, but you would be free to spin around. Still seems pretty freaking cool to me.

            [–]felloutthevault 0 points1 point ago

            Thanks for making me remember a pleasent memory from my childhood :P

            [–]AxeheaveR 0 points1 point ago

            And four and a half years from now they'll already be an afterthought.

            [–]blablahblah -1 points0 points ago

            Hi-tech skateboard? Flying must be coming in v2. (For those who haven't seen this before- this is Windows division president Steven Sinofsky demonstrating one of the Surface's many innovative features)

            [–]fexion -1 points0 points ago

            come on guys. we already have maglev trains -_-

            [–]chadcf 0 points1 point ago

            Well, inventing some anti-gravitational device small enough to be attached to a skateboard without a huge power supply seems like an unlikely goal for 3 years. I think we're going to have to go with the backup plan of burying a layer of magnetic metal underneath the entire surface of the earth. And with only 3 years we better get moving.

            [–]Emodarkness13 0 points1 point ago

            Well, it could be possible, but we'd have to spend a lot of money lining every city with magnets, that way they can put the same magnets in the hover board. Then there's the part of being able to move it, so they'd probably have to be electronic magnets. Then you can supply power to a certain part of the magnets, based on where your feet are. All-in-all, it would take so much money, it's not really worth it, we just aren't in the financial stability it would require. Unless they figure out a way other than that.

            [–]veidt_co 1 point2 points ago

            The people you are trying to address are engineers.

            [–]TheMarquisDeSpace 0 points1 point ago

            I am waiting for fashion to come out with double ties

            [–]judokalinker 0 points1 point ago

            Boooo! Cliche!

            [–]deadeight 0 points1 point ago

            EZPZ!

            As long as you don't mind only following a rail.

            [–]unit2244 0 points1 point ago

            best highschool graduation gift

            [–]Chochi44 0 points1 point ago

            http://www.newscientist.com/video/1227970349001-levitating-disc-locks-in-place.html

            [–]365android 0 points1 point ago

            ready GO

            [–]Cheddarballz90 -1 points0 points ago

            Scientists at REDBULL have 3 years. Now I know every can I drink will go to direct research.

            [–]introvertintrovert 0 points1 point ago

            Give us money and we'll give you flying shoes. Love, scientists everywhere.

            [–]learntofart 0 points1 point ago

            We got dolphin jetpacks though: http://i.imgur.com/sWyHZ.gif

            [–]mistaknowitall 1 point2 points ago

            Ironically, it will be time wasted on Reddit that keeps scientists from dedicating themselves to the invention of hover boards.

            [–]robbobnob 0 points1 point ago

            The real problem is a power source that is compact enough and light enough for implementation in such an application. The physics and control systems for such a board are all ready created.

            For propulsion and lift mind you, some super duper vertical axis fans would be required.

            [–]Eugotur 0 points1 point ago

            False. We are now in an alternate timeline in which the technology for this cannot and will not be invented in time. We can tell this by the wildly different fashions and the other divergences in technology. I cannot definitely tell you which event caused this divergence but I reckon it has something to do with 'BttF 3'

            [–]dragoncore74 1 point2 points ago

            For those of you looking for the science behind hoverboards, the easiest way to do this is through super conductors. A super conductor is a conductor with absolutely 0 resistance in electrical current, so any current run through it will travel indefinitly. If you place a magnet on a super conductor lenz's law (Google that non physics students) takes place and the magnet floats above the superconductor at a height equal to its magnetic force. The problem is that superconductors that we have now only are superconductors at. temperatures only accessable through liquid nitrogen cooling. Scientists are currently looking into possible Room temperature superconductors, but finding one is pretty much raw luck/chance. If a scientist gets lucky and finds a room temperature superconductor within a few years, and its easily makeable, this COULD become commonplace in a few years.

            TL;DR based on pretty much raw luck, this could be on the market in a few years, or in a century... It CAN be done now but with a liquid nitrogen cooling tank, as seen in someone else's comment

            [–]Radzell 0 points1 point ago

            There is not opposing force to gravity so there must be metal under the city. Maybe we could us software to do balance calculation.

            [–]covertmime 0 points1 point ago

            They better fucking get on it!

            [–]bricardo 1 point2 points ago

            3 years? We've had wires and cranes for a while now, OP. Just get yourself a crew, some gear, and go pretend yourself Mcflying.

            [–]duggyrob 1 point2 points ago

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTFDelbpido

            [–]Ginnothy 1 point2 points ago

            Yes! Scrolled for this ...

            [–]shadowlich 0 points1 point ago

            I also have 52 years to create warp engines.

            [–]padgo 0 points1 point ago

            and here is the relevant theme song

            [–]MpegEVIL 1 point2 points ago

            Shut up about this.

            [–]ravi910 0 points1 point ago

            Pshh, three years? how about now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRNU_D_UImk Super Conductor: Hover Board.

            [–]Biophys_FTW 0 points1 point ago

            Working on in.

            [–]Rocky760 1 point2 points ago

            HOW THE FUCK HAS THIS BEEN REPOSTED SO MANY TIMES AND I STILL GET UPVOTES!!!

            [–]cantstoplobsterclaws 0 points1 point ago

            I saw a guy with one of these last week. We're making progress!

            [–]RedBirdinTX 0 points1 point ago

            Fuck you and your reporting ass. Seriously, fuck you

            [–]barnesandnobles 0 points1 point ago

            Fucking magnets

            [–]Nivlac024 0 points1 point ago

            room temp superconductors coming soon

            [–]speedstix 1 point2 points ago

            Engineers more likely

            [–]MrStiglitz 0 points1 point ago

            til dec 21 actually, so few months..

            [–]holyenchiladas 1 point2 points ago

            Engineering ≠ science

            [–]Shakespearean_Rumba 0 points1 point ago

            Guys, I hate to be the one to break this to you, but this just isn't going to happen. Back to the Future 2 also predicted a Cubs World Series victory. It's strictly fantasy.

            [–]2ashesWeReturn 0 points1 point ago

            nice shoes

            [–]ShellBell 0 points1 point ago

            I think there are already shoes like those.

            [–]Uthayne 0 points1 point ago

            Duh, it's obviously just buttered toast flipped upside down

            [–]thebeardedone666 0 points1 point ago

            Yeah we better have those shoes with in the next three years! Or I'm going to go crazy!

            [–]ShiaLabooof 0 points1 point ago

            Isn't Hasbro actually working on this?

            [–]tolkaholic 1 point2 points ago

            Quantum levitation - Via r/technology

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA

            [–]Tyx 0 points1 point ago

            Considering we are finally starting to see progress on Hover Bikes these might be possible, though I expect at least 20 to 30 years or so before this kind of tech is feasible for such a small board.

            [–]este_hombre 0 points1 point ago

            It's nice to think that I'm not the only person who made a mental note about 2015 upon seeing this movie.

            [–]imshitfaced 0 points1 point ago

            Is it Reddit law to post this exact shit once a month?

            [–]uiewgf 0 points1 point ago

            Hoping for comment that says hover boards already exist.

            [–]ohnodanny 0 points1 point ago

            it's possible already: http://www.ted.com/talks/boaz_almog_levitates_a_superconductor.html

            [–]imanygirl 0 points1 point ago

            I don't get it. It looks like a foam board on rocks.

            [–]terriblespeller 0 points1 point ago

            The Nikes look about right at least

            [–]schocko777 0 points1 point ago

            Fuck the hover boards, I want those nikes

            [–]alexgiampapa 0 points1 point ago

            well, they already got the boots down: http://www.thetechherald.com/articles/Nike-unveils-limited-edition-Back-to-the-Future-II-boots

            [–]8lackman87 0 points1 point ago

            Well at least we have sneakers that resemble what BTTF thought they would look like

            [–]yourmom3211 0 points1 point ago

            This is a repost.

            [–]WhatImMike 0 points1 point ago

            http://www.slashgear.com/mattel-hover-board-prepped-for-2012-holiday-release-13213241/

            You're all welcome.

            [–]YNot1989 0 points1 point ago

            We're working on it dammit!

            [–]BetoxD 0 points1 point ago

            $10,000 pair of shoes or hover board.....? Hmmmmmm

            [–]Dubshack 0 points1 point ago

            Well it doesn't fly but for $15,000 you can get this lovely set piece... http://www.ebay.com/itm/BACK-FUTURE-2-GRIFF-TANNEN-PIT-BULL-HOVERBOARD-/270822226027#vi-content

            [–]waldo92 0 points1 point ago

            Quantum levitation. It can happen!

            [–]camisado_ 0 points1 point ago

            Relevant.

            [–]Scarmanz 0 points1 point ago

            If OP had half a Brain cell he would know scientist don't have time to be on reddit.

            [–]GreyReanimator 1 point2 points ago

            Magnets, pave everything in magnets! So simple, just dont let your hoverboard flip over or your gonna have a bad time.

            [–]narpas 0 points1 point ago

            Other Redditors:

            We have about three years before this joke hits front page twice a week for three months.

            [–]JuiceBox789 0 points1 point ago

            i actually want those shoes very much now

            [–]BossCock 0 points1 point ago

            Yes...I hate having to tie my shoes

            [–]Commod0re 0 points1 point ago

            Engineers, not scientists.

            [–]Rudy-Poo 0 points1 point ago

            At least they got the shoes right.

            [–]solusolu 0 points1 point ago

            actually there was a translation error and its 2125

            [–]jonnie555 0 points1 point ago

            nike already made those shoes!

            [–]Im_Just_That_Guy 0 points1 point ago

            Dear science! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTFDelbpido

            [–]Gustenpunkt 0 points1 point ago

            Shoes are pretty accurate :o

            [–]Fig1024 0 points1 point ago

            theoretically, would superconductors make something like this possible over specially designed roads?

            [–]williams012 0 points1 point ago

            A song about Hoverboards by Seth Sentry an Australian musician.

            [–]MrMadcap 0 points1 point ago

            Street / sidewalk built-in superconductors, and boards / vehicles with computer controlled electromagnets?

            [–]xaoq 0 points1 point ago

            I'm going to plant a very evil seed in your thought: what if Apple made those?

            [–]chopalop 0 points1 point ago

            Relevant song

            [–]WreckerCrew 0 points1 point ago

            Won't happen. There isn't a powerful enough or small enough power supply to allow this to happen.

            [–]MaccyTheFurry 0 points1 point ago

            I think this would simply be a matter of miniaturizing engines. We would have to put two miniature get engines and this could work. Then, it will be all about people managing to use it without crashing.

            [–]barlowqt 0 points1 point ago

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTFDelbpido :D

            [–]tripstuff 0 points1 point ago

            I'm going to be honest, I came here to try and say something about how ridiculous this idea is. Googled some shit, found this video. This is definitely possible.

            [–]BranDanLeMovieMan 0 points1 point ago

            People in the 1900's expected us to be riding hovercrafts by the year 2000 but didn't expect us to have robotic vacuums until 2030. Guess which one we have now days?

            [–]CajunTurkey 0 points1 point ago

            Give the scientists brownies.

            [–]Francetto 0 points1 point ago

            Probably realistic. But the cubs winning the ws? NO WAY

            [–]bigfig 0 points1 point ago

            Engineers build shit. Scientists argue about how things work. Synthesis versus analysis.

            [–]KojaKhan 0 points1 point ago

            Dude they made it work for the movie, the magnet shit kept it hovering like that. They couldn't sell it because it's dangerous as fuck

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