Citations:flux capacitor

English citations of flux capacitor

  • 2016 November 20, Eric Schulman, “Quantum Computers Are Game Changing”, in The Cornell Daily Sun[1]:
    It’s okay if you don’t know the difference between quantum computer and a flux capacitor. Even if quantum computing seems complicated, its implications are easy to understand. Although they sound like something out of a sci-fi novel, these things are going to change the world.
  • 2018 November 8, Dave Dormer, “City Hall time capsule offers peek into Calgary's past”, in CBC[2]:
    City hall staff took a trip back in time Thursday — without the need for a flux capacitor. / Mayor Naheed Nenshi had the honour of removing a time capsule that was placed inside Old City Hall on Sept. 15, 1908, during construction of the landmark sandstone building.
  • 2019 January 12, Chad Plauche-Adkins, “Playing the classics: Flea market music collection includes thousands of records”, in The Marietta Times[3]:
    Tucked into the corner of the Rinky Dink Flea Market in Marietta is a time machine that transports its visitors to an era before digital music. It doesn’t need a flux capacitor to work, just a plug to power the vintage stereos and turntables that produce the sounds of the thousands of vinyl records sold there.
  • 2021 December 4, Barney Ronay, “Thomas Tuchel must gear up for a new phase to reboot glitching Chelsea”, in The Guardian[4]:
    Is this a glitch? Is the system experiencing an outage? It is a temptation that is best resisted, the urge to talk about this Chelsea team as a piece of fine-point engineering, to style Thomas Tuchel as a pure systems man, poring over his data charts, banging his dials, reconfiguring the flux capacitor with a bent hairpin.
  • 2022 May 10, Reda Wigle, “What kind of mother are you based on your zodiac sign?”, in New York Post[5]:
    Ruled by stern planet Saturn and punk rock Uranus, water bearer moms are either task masters or all out weirdos. Trying to construct a flux capacitor, take over the world through mind control and wind turbines, live off grid, dismantle the patriarchy and contact life on other planets, specifically the one they were sent here from, is tough work, kids.