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http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/67856/why-does-the-number-99-appear-backwards-spelled-in-airborn-fire-in-back-to wrote:

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<<On the official wikidot FAQ for Back to the Future II, Robert Gale (the film's co-Writer and Director) described the DeLorean 99 fire trails thusly (This quote appears to have been sourced (verbatim) from the Official BTTF Fan Club Magazine, Issue #3.):

• Q. What is the significance of the pair of "backwards 9's" of fire left behind when the DeLorean is struck by lightning?

• Gale : When the big bolt of lightning hits the DeLorean, it sends the flying vehicle spinning on its axis. As we already know, the DeLorean leaves fire trails behind it when it travels through time. Since in this case, the car was spinning, the fire trails are left behind as spirals instead of the usual straight lines left behind when the car is moving straight ahead.

• Q. How could the DeLorean travel through time when it gets struck by lightning if it isn't going 88 miles per hour?

• Gale : The sudden rotation of the DeLorean from the lightning hit accelerates it to 88 miles per hour when it spins.

AW240Z wrote:
Interesting info regarding the "Carrington Effect". Do you suppose the scientist in the original 1951 "Thing From Another World" - Dr. Carrington, was named after the real life English astronomer? Be a nice tribute. After all they did kill him/it with electricity.

• Dr. Arthur Carrington's a fun guy one can take a likin' to
  • (and maybe he's even a cryptogam ).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington wrote:
Dr. Arthur Carrington, character played by Robert Cornthwaite in the 1951 science-fiction movie The Thing From Another World.

Richard Christopher Carrington (26 May 1826 – 27 November 1875) was an English amateur astronomer whose 1859 astronomical observations demonstrated the existence of solar flares as well as suggesting their electrical influence upon the Earth and its aurorae; and whose 1863 records of sunspot observations revealed the differential rotation of the Sun.

Benjamin Carrington FRSE FLS MRCS (18 January 1827 – 18 January 1893) was a leading British botanist and taxonomist in the late 19th century. He was a specialist in bryophytes, cryptogams, fungi & lichens, and wrote extensively on these subjects. (Carrington was President of the Manchester Cryptogamic Society.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus wrote:
<<A fungus (plural: fungi) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes unicellular microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as multicellular fungi that produce familiar fruiting forms known as mushrooms. Similar to animals, fungi are heterotrophs, that is, they acquire their food by absorbing dissolved molecules, typically by secreting digestive enzymes into their environment. Growth is their means of mobility, except for spores, which may travel through the air or water (a few of which are flagellated). Abundant worldwide, most fungi are inconspicuous because of the small size of their structures, and their cryptic lifestyles in soil, on dead matter.>>

Guest wrote:How in the hell someone had get a "bright Moon" at August 30, 2016? New moon will be just in 3 days. Seems as fake.

APOD Robot wrote: The featured aurora was imaged last week over Thingvallavatn Lake in Iceland...