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"The big Back to the Future Question"

If (in the first Back to the future) einstein (the dog) is the first time traveller, during doc browns experiment, and einstein disappears for 1 minute, in the delorean. He re-appears as marty and the doc both jump out of the way, apparently, having skipped a whole minute .... why then, in the second film, does marty, when he travels into the future, with doc brown, see a future version of himself and a future version of his bird, jennifer, living out their lives, as though they were separate people?

It's always bothered me

That's what I meant.
T'was a typo.

maddmun wrote:
> No, realllllllly?
> That's eactly what I said.
> tart.

No, you said Journey, he said Adventure.


I'm pretty sure it's Adventure.

Are you all mad?

It's Hollywood science. Accept the inevitable conclusion; it doesn't make sense and it's not meant to.

No, realllllllly?
That's eactly what I said.
tart.

maddmun wrote:
> monkey_man wrote:
> The definitive time travel film is Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey.
> Radical.
>
> That's Bill And Ted's Excellent journey. Foo'
> Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey is the one where they're killed and go
> to hell, heaven, and tehn make robots.
>
> Foo'

Its Bill and Ted's Ecxellent Adventure. I think.

In BTTF 2, shouldn't future Marty be expecting present Marty? Presumably everything that happened, happened to future Marty in his past..or something...and when Old Biff goes to the past and gives young Biff the almanac he changes the future to the future of the new 1985, so the events in the future don't happen the same way surely? so old biff won't end up going back to the past and young Biff doesn't get the book...so wouldn't it all cancel out?

Time travel just makes my head hurt, you screw around with one thing and you will never ever be able to right it...I hope to God that time travel never happens!!

me-uh-eh.

I'll retort when I'm less pished

Darwock wrote:
> edit: I see madmun has just pointed out the same thing :-)

Twice
I pointed it out in my first post too.

ßora† §agdiyeV wrote:
> So when the doc turns up in his flying car, and he tells marty that
> he has to come to the future to 'help his kids', how can marty even
> have kids, assuming that he also ceases to exist for the
> period between then, and when the delorean arrives in the future.

Becaaauuuuse.... Marty also at some point in the future returned to the past - so even though he is leaving that 'present' existence, it is apparent that he would eventually return to an earlier point, allowing him to have kids. Heh.

edit: I see madmun has just pointed out the same thing :-)

ßora† §agdiyeV wrote:
> Darwock wrote:
> Yeah it's dead simple, Einstein went forward in time one minute. He
> hadn't *been* anywhere when he reappeared in the Delorean, that was
> him just arriving.
>
> Yes, but for that minute, Einstein ceased to exist, he skipped
> past that minute, and appeared in marty and the docs future.
>
> So, he didn't exist for an entire minute!
>
> So when the doc turns up in his flying car, and he tells marty that
> he has to come to the future to 'help his kids', how can marty even
> have kids, assuming that he also ceases to exist for the
> period between then, and when the delorean arrives in the future.

But when Einstein travels 1 minute into the future, he stays there. Marty, the Doc and girl don't, they go back to the past, and live out their lives there, so, when they return, they'd live for 30 years, and, had they not altered Marty's future at the end of part 3, then, old marty's wife would see young marty's girlfriend at the door, then they'd both faint.
Einstein, however, wouldn't see himself, as, when he went forward 1 minute in the de'lorean, that was the only time (we know of) that he travelled in it, so he didn't go back 1 minute and EXIST in that minute whilst the delorean was there.