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Back to the Future predicted hoverboards in 2015, but the modern day ones are a little different. Kyle explains all of them on this week’s Because Science!
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• A hoverboard you might actually buy http://nerdi.st/1IRhsLU
• How the Lexus hoverboard works http://nerdi.st/1GICXik
• Quantum levitation http://nerdi.st/1kbJk7t
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You simply have to channel 1.21 gigawatts into the flux capacitor. Because the flux capacitor is what. Makes. Time Travel. Possible…
Does Darth Vader need food or water? Is instance transmission possible?
Many people seem to be under the impression that technology is lagging, simply because we don't have flying cars or free-roaming hover-boards, by now. Yet, they fail to realize that just because something can be done w/ special effects in a movie, it doesn't mean that it is feasible or even practical.
The first real prototype of a flying car, was the Aerocar, built in 1949. However, in the end it never reached the production phase, as it was extremely unpractical. Not only was there a requirement that the operator have both a drivers and pilots license, but it also required the use of a trailer, which was used to tow the wings, when they weren't in use.
As for the hover-board, the main question comes down to whether it's even feasible to create a free-roaming hover-board (without wheels) at a reasonable price, that not only floats at least 6-8 inches from the ground, but is also not tied to a magnetic rail or metal path, etc.
Regardless, I will say that there have been some great discoveries and inventions, that may have never been conceived otherwise. Therefore, even if we never see a legitimate hover-board, the developments and technologies that will inevitably branch off of these attempts, will ultimately surpass the original idea.
Uhhhhh isn't the company gonna be slightly pissed at you for this video?
Damn cool… 😂😂 the reason why i love science ❤❤
I wanna hear the science on why he thinks what we have is a hover board. It doesn't hover. Its a segway without handlebars.
Who else wishes the goverment would put magnets in the sidewalks so we could have hoverboards
Is it just me or does he look like thor?
Only me okaay…
The Mcfly hoverboard would most likely be the first kind, and the future city he visits just paves its roads with conductive materials so that hover vehicles work. It wouldn't work when he went to the old west, though.
Nerdist. Kyle I actually had this idea that hendo had. However hendo had a problem with their design. There is no "edge" this means you cannot control where you go. It's funny because that can be solved with a simple configuration change of the magnets. Using carbon discs with neodymium magnets with alternating poles along it they have four discs to rotate clockwise and to rotate counter-clockwise this prevents the board from just spinning in a circle but this is absolutely the worst design that you could come up with for a hoverboard when you ride a skateboard and you want to ride a hoverboard when you lean left you want to turn left when you lean right you want to turn right. does this make sense? If you find time in your busy schedule to read this comment and I would happily share my design configuration with you just not on a public forum like this so an email or something I would happily explain the correct way that you would use this type of magnetic levitation for a hoverboard. It's funny I actually saw them attempting to hook electric motors to each set of there neodymium magnet discs to swivel it directions to steer it is so dumb I can't believe that such smart people that figured out this type of magnetic levitation can't figure out how to let you steer it
When I think of a hoverboard, I think of a literal hoverboard that can go up, down, left, right, front, back, in all sorts of directions. I think of it as a new method of transportation. That would help out humanity's problems by a ton. Why? Because science.
Ha. I did a project on this in 7th grade, and exactly for this reason. Made a small model and everything.
A could you check out that old Cartoon Shadow Raiders and explain how the Planet engines would work
BIG QUESTION… if someone were daring enough to make something like the lexus board in a more long board body and manage to go down a huge hill, since no contact is being made with the ground, how fast would someone be able to go??? O_O… Obviously including wind resistance.
Ahhhhh making my brain hurt !!
How can i buy it bro ?
If they don't work like the hoverboards from Sonic Riders, then I'm not interested.
Well I bet when they said in the movie we would have hover boards they didn't know we would actually, but the people that watched it must've been like HECK YEAH! LETS BUILD ME SOME HOVER BOARDS!!!!
Could the technology from Yugioh (duel arena, duel disks) be possible? with or without the holograms.
Kyle. You're one of my favorite science guys.
And why?
BECAUSE SCIENCE! AND HUMOR 😀