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Old 12-May-2008, 07:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Tuckerfan View Post
The Brits were using rockets as military weapons at the beginning of the 19th Century (which is why there's "the rockets red glare" in the 'Merkin National Anthem), so not only should Doc have had knowledge of them, but could have potentially have found them as well. If he hadn't, he could have made a steam rocket to get the car up to speed, easily enough.
Even the fuel supplements Doc made appeared to be rockets!

Anyone beside me notice that when they made it back to the future, got out of the car, and it was hit by a train, nobody cared? In real life the engineer would have been dynamiting the brakes, radioing dispatch, calling the cops on the cell phone, and so on. Nope, just goes straight on.
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