8 Popular 'Back To The Future' Lies You Need To Stop Believing

Great Scott! "Back to the Future" day is here! After 30 years of waiting from the first film, and tons of hoaxes, Oct. 21, 2015, aka the day Marty travels to in "Back to the Future Part II," has finally arrived. Fans are planning celebrations all over, and there's even a new "Back to the Future" 30th Anniversary Trilogy Blu-ray, which "BTTF" writer Bob Gale revealed has a ton of bonus features, including an explanation of why our 2015 isn't like the one in the movie. Gale tells The Huffington Post he and co-creator Robert Zemeckis put so many details in the movie to give people something to talk about on the way home from the theaters. But still, it's about time some theories out there make like a tree and get out of here, so Gale finally set the record straight on some "Back to the Future" fibs that you keep getting told: Here are 8 lies people say about "Back to the Future": 1. There is a scientific reason why it's 88 miles per hour. Fans have gone through many scientific equations to figure out why 88 miles per hour is the speed for time travel, and it turns out, it's just because it sounded good. "It’s easy to remember," said Gale. "We needed it to be faster than any normal speed limit and didn’t want the idea that somebody could just accidentally drive a car that fast and travel through time. Eighty-eight was just a good number. Good way for people to remember. Eighty-eight keys on a piano." 2. You can catch glim...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - Category: Science Source Type: news