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Overlooked "Back to the Future" ref?

I don't know if you guys have noticed this, but in one of the cutscenes, the one where the Terran scientist and the Vasudian where trying to reconstruct the shield technology of the Shivans, the Terran scientist's line goes like this:

"Power levels stable. One point two one gigawatts..."

I don't know about you, but wasn't the "one point twenty one gigawatts" part an obvious ref (which is often overlooked) to BttF1?

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Overlooked "Back to the Future" ref?

I don't know if you guys have noticed this, but in one of the cutscenes, the one where the Terran scientist and the Vasudian where trying to reconstruct the shield technology of the Shivans, the Terran scientist's line goes like this:

"Power levels stable. One point two one gigawatts..."

I don't know about you, but wasn't the "one point twenty one gigawatts" part an obvious ref (which is often overlooked) to BttF1?

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Heh. My roommate caught that first time I played through FS1. I would have missed it on my own.

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Yep, that's what I always thought too. I posted about it back on the VBB, but I don't remeber much excitment about the idea.... Of course the GTA flunkie didn't say it like Doc brown did, shoulda been 1.21 "jiggawatts"!

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Yep, that's what I always thought too. I posted about it back on the VBB, but I don't remeber much excitment about the idea.... Of course the GTA flunkie didn't say it like Doc brown did, shoulda been 1.21 "jiggawatts"!

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