Posted on 10/21/2015 6:30:09 PM PDT by markomalley
The White House is marking “Back to the Future Day” – the day that the fictional character Marty McFly traveled to the future in the movie “Back to the Future Part II” – by encouraging people to take part in a Google+ Hangout conversation on “time travel.”
“It's an important day in American history (or, at least, in American cinematic history): It's the date to which Marty McFly traveled into the ‘future’ in Back to the Future Part II,” the White House website stated. “We've come a long way in the 30 years that have passed since the original Back to the Future came out. Now, we're going to talk about where we're going in the next 30.
“All day long, we're hosting a series of conversations with scientists and innovators across the government and the country. You'll be able to ask them questions, watch videos explaining their cutting-edge developments, and share your answer to the question above: What does 2045 look like?” the White House said on its website.
“Back to the Future Day” began with a Google+ workshop hosted by Tom Kalil with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Economic Council.
“You might wonder why the White House is paying attention to a science fiction movie, but actually, there’s a really serious reason to do that, and that is if you look at the history of scientific and technological development, a lot of times scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs are inspired by the science fiction books that they read and the science fiction movies and TV shows that they watch,” Kalil said in his introduction.
The conversation was complete with explanations about “what a worm hole is.”
Also taking part in the webinar besides Kalil were professor Tim Ralph of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and Martin Ringbauer, a PhD student at the University of Queensland.
As CNSNews.com previously reported, autonomous vehicles are self-driving vehicles. The federal government has already spent $500,000 through its National Science Foundation for research on self-driving shuttles.
Nissan and NASA have teamed up to develop autonomous vehicle systems. Nissan has pledged to make vehicles with autonomous driving technology available by 2020.
The White House also featured as part of its “Back to the Future Day” a Twitter conversation on the future of women in STEM – which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math – and a Google+ hangout on understanding the human brain.
Let’s go back to October of 1960 and give Stanley Dunham some birth control pills.
You need warp drive before you can time travel
I rode my hoverboard today.
I think that this could be better phrased “theoretically what a worm hole is”
No one claims to have detected a worm hole or claims that it is possible to create one today. Most scientist will tell you it would take nearly an infinite amount of power to open one and keep it open.
He is the start point, but hindsight is 20-20
Obamas ruse is a “soaring future where all is possible”
Sounds like catnip for LIVs to me...
Nothing real, just empty words and promises...
Time travel! Isn’t that what clock boy did moving to Qatar? A White Hut first.
Let’s go back to 1999, Gurnee, Illinois, and witness the wild limo ride with Barry and Larry. Or, December 2007, at the apartment of a gay choir director.
Yet more egregious nonsense from Nero in the White House, fiddling while the nation falls apart.
What does 2045 look like?
If a deadomcrat is elected President in 2016 2045 will “look” quite GRUESOME indeed.
....in the basement between the Rovian weather machine and the mosque.
Only problem is it works in 2 dimensions only.
Here it is in operation....
See it spitting a fresh Obama BC out the slot in the machine.
Wonder if Clock Boy were one of the esteemed presenters. ‘Cause he’s, you know, an inventor and stuff.
Most gun deaths are blacks killing blacks.
Are they proposing taking guns away from blacks?
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