Likenesses \n\n
The legal precedent set by Crispin Glover\u2019s lawsuit against the production; folks are more careful these days as a result. \u201cGrandma Tarkin.\u201d
\n\n Rick & Morty \n\nRick & Morty\u2019s original short lampooning Doc & Marty.
\n\n The future \n\nThe fun, friendly future where the alleyways are safer than the streets. Worrying about your future children and feeling disgusted by your teenage self. Pelvic thrusting fight technique.
\n\n \n Daniel Barker, former scene kid\n\n Time travel technique \n\nBuying The almanac. Varieties of time travel: mutable, immutable, and branching. The way BTTF mixes these options at its leisure. The butterfly effect. Coping with the scale of possibilities. Strategic infanticide and Godwin\u2019s Law.
\n\n Spacetime travel \n\nTaking into account frames of reference. Appearing suddenly in near-vacuum if you don\u2019t properly calibrate your time machine to also account for space travel. The importance of accurate time measurement e.g. Doctor Who The Movie. Destroying \u201cthe universe\u201d but only the local area as causality here could not affect far away galaxies due to expansion. \xaf\\_(\u30c4)_/\xaf
\n\n Rational Optimism \n\nDan\u2019s message welcoming Marty McFly to the future. Recognizing the overarching improvements in the wellbeing of humanity in the face of the negative newscycle.
\n\n Future things! \n\nBricking your self-lacing shoes. Keeping your shoes from joining a botnet. Self-smoking shirts. The periodic nature of futurism where \u201cthe future\u201d always looks basically like now but with neato accessories. Hoverboard hoaxes and disappointments.
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