I should talk about jigowatts for a second.
The proper pronunciation is, of course, gigawatts [with a hard g sound], and when Bob [Zemeckis] and I were doing research, we talked to somebody who mispronounced it jigowatts. And we were actually completely unfamiliar with the term, and we thought that was how it was supposed to be said. It does come from the Greek root gigas [that Greek root is pronounced with a j sound, not a g sound], for gigantic, so I suppose it’s not beyond the realm of possibility. But never having heard of it, we actually spelled it in the script jigowatt. So a jigowatt is actually supposed to be a gigawatt, a million watts. So the mystery of the gigawatts is now solved.
Bob Gale
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zacherynuk @echo off, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 17:22,
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Surely he means a billion-watts, not a million.
Just as well it was Doc Brown doing the calculations and not Bob Gale. Otherwise poor Marty would still be in 1955. Well, he would NOW be in 2009 of course - just really old. Well, older than he would have been anyway. I think.
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JamTallons, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 19:30,
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Also . . . go figure horsepower
www28.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=horsepower
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Valin I changed glasses while I wasn't looking, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 18:08,
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"my cock"
"Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input."
Sounds like my girlfriend.
Baddum fucking tish.
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