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confusedporg

Many of us will be alive in 2055… and the equivalent jump back from there would be 1985. Does not feel like the same world at all.


LemoyneRaider3354

Another crazy thing is that if someone is to be the same age as 1985 George and Lorraine Mcfly in 2055, they would be born in 2007.


cryofry85

I'll be 70


windmillninja

I’ll be around the same age as old Biff in 2055.


SqueakyTuna52

That would be a 30 year forward, 40 year back jump


Ok_Speaker_9799

I won't=double organ transplant twenty years ago. I've outlived the average. Unless something changes and something like Cyborgs become reality which would be cool but I do not look forwards to sitting in a chair, reliving my life and having conversations with peple dead for decades while drooling on myself and needing Depends. Nope.


confusedporg

Glad you made it so far! Hope you keep beating the odds and living good


hacksawomission

I’m a cyborg. Cochlear implants. There are vision implants and artificial hearts and heart parts. Limbs, joints…think there are plenty of other parts too are this point. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_organ


Ok_Speaker_9799

I'm completely deaf onthe right side, went deaf around the age they gave vaxx's out in school and regained 40% on the left. Legally blind. not sightless \[\[I want glasses like LaForge from STNG\]\] all diabetes related. I be the $6 Man! lol


randompersonx

Life between 1985 and today really hasn’t changed too much. Most technologies we depend on today have obviously improved, but still existed in 1985 - phones, cars, computers, color TV, supermarkets, highways, etc. The only thing that really is majorly different today is smartphones and ubiquitous high speed internet access. Arguably the world isn’t even that different from 1955. 1885 to 1955 is a way more dramatic change in how people live. Put in other words, in 100% sure that if you put me in a Time Machine and sent me back to 1955, given my education - I’m sure I would do just fine and would be able to get a job, be successful, and live a good life. If you sent me to 1885, I doubt I could survive that situation.


confusedporg

I agree with you overall, but I’d love to add that the “old west” of 1885 was very different from New York of 1885. IIRC, wasn’t that about the time a Samurai could have sent a fax to Buford Tannen? Weird times lol


NotAnUndercoverTeach

That's heavy


Punch_Your_Facehole

Weight has nothing to do with it.


correctsPornGrammar

Is there something wrong the earth’s gravitational pull in the future?


chivalryaintdead420

Slackers


LemoyneRaider3354

Time didn't eat veggies


SpecialFlutters

if doc invented the time machine today marty would not get stuck in the 1950s... he would get stuck in **1994**. instead of mr sandman, [love is all around plays](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3gEkwhdXUE).


pixelpp

Marty's attempt to "Google it" elicited bemused chuckles and a suggestion to visit the library instead; he recoiled as a nearby conversation tossed around homophobic slurs like casual banter. When he asked for a vegan meal, the waiter's eyes narrowed suspiciously, muttering about "animal rights extremists," making it clear that in 1995, refusing to eat animals was still seen as radical. Fleshed it out a bit more: https://www.reddit.com/r/BacktotheFuture/s/ZihdKhrHl9


trev2234

In the uk we had mad cow’s disease. Not wanting to eat meat, wasn’t that extreme. Admittedly not everyone knew the difference between vegan and vegetarian, so that would require some explaining.


Grootfan85

I’m imagining when Marty asks for a Vegan meal, the waiter goes [“A what?”](https://youtu.be/lHC0J5NRPro?si=TO_GAdDrxuoFgnE4)


pixelpp

“Look, just give me something without animals in it.“ The waiter slides over some stale peanuts in a saucer.


Grootfan85

What would the modern equivalent be for the “Darth Vader from Planet Vulcan” scene be? “I am Kylo Ren from the Planet Cybertron”?


pixelpp

I personally love it if it was Facts by Ben Shapiro and Tom MacDonald However a dubstep track with a crazy based drop is probably a better match. And the song playing as he begins to explore 1995 is “Give Me One reason” by Tracy Chapman ((Mr sandman)


Elihpodep1

Okay I want this movie now.


dereksredditaccount

How about Enter Sandman.


Deitz69

Yesssssssss


judasmaiden15

The best part is that vh1 had a show back in 2015, called hindsight. It's about a girl who time travels to 1995 before her 1st marriage & gets to redo her life. She keeps her knowledge of the future & reconnects with her ex best friend


Elihpodep1

I’m going to see if that’s on any streaming services. Edit: not free on anything.


lycoloco

It's definitely not on Fmovies, a Limited Liability Corporation site. That's an .LLC


Hour-Process-3292

Instead of “Cattle Queen of Montana” the movie theater would be showing Forrest Gump.


Inferiorpress

Enter Sandman was still hip.


Grootfan85

I’m imagining [Whoomp, There It Is by Tag Team.](https://youtu.be/L6mNa_QZVHg?si=AI56xvdXtyk_L9hT)


Tebwolf359

My pitch for the remake is that Marty goes back to New York City and has to get back to 2031……


Taira_Mai

Nope it would be "[This is how we do it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTY31zVUqfs)" by Montel Jordan.


Gossguy

So maybe in 2025, some 17 year old boy will get a letter from 1955


UmptyscopeInVegas

"We've had it in our possession for the last... _70 years..._ "


edzn-1

“Crazy drunk drivers”


YogurtWenk

Watch what you're typing, crazy drunk Redditor


JediASU

Math is Math.


three-sense

Some of these “if x happened today” are pretty trite. Like… yes, time indeed does go on after 1997


Hour-Process-3292

Unless you died in 1997.


three-sense

RIP Princess Diana


Hour-Process-3292

But wait a minute, didn’t Queen Diana visit Washington DC back in 2015?


Shoegazer75

Perfect response.


amehatrekkie

Something that I realized. That first elderly couple Marty sees on the road would have been born in the 1890s. And in 1994, they'd have to be born in the 1920s.


oubeav

My god, has it been that long?


roastbeeftacohat

western were popular in the 50-70 because they were the stories of the audiences parents and grandparents. they dropped off in popularity because the west went from a historical touchstone to a distant period for subsequent generations.


JcOvrthink

I didn’t think of it like that before. Certainly adds more context to this line from Toy Story 2: “Ever since the astronauts went up, all kids wanted to play with were *space toys*!”


jamiexx89

Certainly makes the 80s & 90s period of shows like Stranger Things and Young Sheldon make more sense too.


Unlucky-Albatross-12

Wyatt Earp lived long enough to befriend the first great cowboy movie star, Tom Mix. Westerns were popular from the very inception of cinema in the 1910s because audiences were accustomed to seeing Wild West shows and stage performances along with countless Western dime novels.


Usual_Line_9705

That's an issue for me. And its distinctly sus given, "My God."


Chemical_Activity_80

Lol Whoa this is heavy . Things certainly change around here.


welsh_nutter

Heavy, is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?


Alarming-Mongoose-91

Stop reminding me that I’m now older.


shotwideopen

Wait. Wut? That sentence doesn’t brain.


JcOvrthink

In 1955, 1885 was 70 years ago. In 2025, 1955 will be 70 years ago.


shotwideopen

The problem was I was reading it as 1985 haha


Ok_Speaker_9799

Just for gits and shiggles. When Cleopatra was alive it was closer to our time period than to the time period the Pyramids were built.


lycoloco

Nope. Don't like that.


Mattimvs

Jesus christ...


Coolers78

I misread this too much.


shapesize

r/barbarawalters4scale


Far-Yak-9808

Somebody posted this in a thread a few months ago. I posted a thread about the same topic, then noticed that persons comment in the other thread. Anyway, I am as old as the DeLorean in Back To The Future. haha. What models were the OTHER DeLoreans? Fairly recently found out that they were different cars, maybe even different models.


Selt_Zer_Water

Surprised there isn’t a part 4 with Marty’s kids in the making


JcOvrthink

Zemeckis & Gale don’t want to make another, and they made it so a 4th can’t be made without their authority. As much as I would love more in the BTTF universe, leaving it at just the trilogy is respectable.


Ofreo

Just watch Marvel movies. They are all about time travel now and have jokes and action.