Back to the Future's 1.21 gigawatts sounds huge, but is it? We compare different power levels of common objects to see how much energy a gigawatt really is.

Back to the Future’s 1.21 gigawatts sounds huge, but is it? We compare different power levels of common objects to see how much energy a gigawatt really is.

  • NOT_RICKEnglish
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    7 months ago

    It wasn’t gigawatts, though.

    • teft
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      7 months ago7 months ago

      It was though? Doc Brown just says gigawatt with a soft G while we people of the future pronounce it with a hard G.

      You would think he’d get it right since he has a time machine and can go find out how people talk in the future.

      https://youtu.be/BDuZqYeNiOA?t=49