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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Two questions on "Back to the Futur
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Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 17:58:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  9 17:58:03 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Sep-85 18:42:36 EDT
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Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: COMPRESSOR!

> >	... I theorize that someone made a mistake
> >     and thought that it was a Flux Compressor.  Did anyone notice this ?
> 
> It says "Flux Condenser", not "Flux Compressor" or "Flux Capacitor".
> Condenser was the word used for capacitor in 1955 ...

No, it doesn't.  I have seen the film three times and it said FLUX COMPRESSOR
three times.  Not condenser.  Compressor.  So did somebody make a mistake?
Not at all.  The Doc simply didn't think of the best name for the device
straightaway after he bonked his head and invented it.  If you must look
for bugs in the movie, you can find much worse ones than that.  But who
needs to?  It was STILL a great show.

Yes, of course condenser used to be the word for capacitor.  Nevertheless,
that's not what it says on the paper.

Mark Brader
"I'm a little worried about the bug-eater," she said.  "We're embedded
in bugs, have you noticed?"		-- Niven, "The Integral Trees"