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Remember, Remember the Fifth of November: The Day Time Travel Was Invented

Posted on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta

The Fifth of November is important for a variety of reasons… but most importantly because it was the day that time Travel was invented.

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Doc Brown: Here’s a red-letter date in the history of science, November 5, 1955. Yes, of course, November 5, 1955.

Marty McFly: What, I don’t get what happened.

Doc: That was the day I invented time travel. I remember it vividly. I was standing on the edge of my toilet hanging a clock, the porces was wet, I slipped, hit my head on the edge of the sink. And when I came to I had a revelation, a picture, a picture in my head, a picture of this. This is what makes time travel possible. The flux capacitor.

Marty: The flux capacitor?

Doc: It’s taken me almost thirty years and my entire family fortune to realize the vision of that day, my god has it been that long.

Happy 54th Birthday Time Travel!

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  • Nokoo
    I'm not sure in what capacity this works as film news. But whatever, Back to the Future is awesome and so is a flux capacitor.
  • Nic
    Happy 54th Birthday time travel.
  • V is such a horrible movie with laughable, cheesy fight sequences. The graphic novel is 2,000x much better.
  • drewbstew
    Really? I could have sworn it rocked. And that Hugo Weaving is cooler than everyone you'll ever know.

    V for Vendetta rocks, Back to the Future rocks. Hurray for Nov. 5!
  • Lance_HBomb
    Maybe compared to the graphic novel, but V for Vendetta rocked socks.
  • ryan
    Lighten up Nokoo
  • Paul
    wait, I thought that was a sketch for the Oscillation Overthruster?
  • This is awesome, please do this more often Peter. Maybe a great day in films series?
  • Jared Penner
    and its my birthday
  • srevnets
    Mine too! I couldn't have wished for a better birthday once I saw BTTF for the first time.
  • Ehh, I was off by about 3 days.
  • Ken
    Peter, I love your love for BTTF.
  • International_J
    I feel special that time travel and myself have the same birthday
  • Mainly it is Roy Rogers birthday!
  • Important because it is Roy Rogers birthday!
  • brutzelpretzel
    Happy 54th Birthday Time Paradox!

    Check this video if you like Time Travel movies...

    http://www.vimeo.com/4961023
  • GreatBigLion
    Awesome article, Peter.
  • CyT
    I watched Back to the Future last night actually .. what a coincidence. My sub-conscience must have known!

    Thanks for pointing it out Peter :)
  • Ryan
    Peter, I love you for this, and BTTF has been my absolute favorite movie since I was six years old, 20 years ago. That being said, and at the risk of sounding like a complete geek with absolutely no life...you got the quote wrong, dude!

    Corrected-
    Doc: That was the day I invented time travel. I remember it vividly. I was standing on the edge of my toilet hanging a clock, the porcelain was wet, I slipped, hit my head on the edge of the sink, and when I came to I had a revelation...a vision...a picture in my head! A picture of THIS. This is what makes time travel possible. The Flux Capacitor.


    I know it's a small thing, but my little geeky brain couldn't take it! Otherwise totally awesome. Cheers, dude!
  • Turcicus
    Thank you!! My geeky brain couldn't take it either. Peter, for BTTF being your favorite movie, you sure screwed up the lines!! ;)
  • jmascia
    It's finds like these that keep us all coming back, Peter. All I'm thinking is that it's my sister's birthday. Do you have this marked on your calendar?
  • justrobby
    This is heavy
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