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  • 2021-03-09 (xsd:date)
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  • Does O'Reilly Auto Parts Advertise Flux Capacitors? (en)
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  • O'Reilly Automotive is one of America's largest retailers of auto parts, operating well over 5,000 O'Reilly Auto Parts stores across the U.S. A behemoth auto-parts chain is perhaps not one of the more likely places one would look to for wry humor, but the company's website does host at least one in-joke -- searching the site for part number 121g turns up a listing for a flux capacitor, the device invented by Doc Brown in the popular 1985 film Back to the Future that enabled Marty McFly to drive a DeLorean DMC-12 30 years into the past: The 121g part number, of course, refers to 1.21 gigawatts, the amount of power required in the film to activate the device: https://youtu.be/I5cYgRnfFDA The O'Reilly website also offers some useful caveats and warnings to potential users of a flux capacitor, including that plutonium (needed to create a reaction that generates the 1.21 gigawatts of power needed by the device) is not available at O'Reilly Auto Parts, and that the flux capacitor requires the stainless steel body of a 1981-1983 DeLorean DMC-12 to properly function: Alas, O'Reilly also informs would-be time-traveling customers that This item is not available for purchase and that the listing pictures a Non-Functional Item Displayed for Entertainment Purposes Only. (en)
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