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October 21, 2015 03:48 pm GMT

Neil deGrasse Tyson celebrates 'Back to the Future' Day with his army of nerds

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Back to the Future Day is finally here! Today is October 21, 2015, the day in which Doc Brown, Marty and Jennifer traveled to in Back to the Future Part II.

Superior nerd, astrophysicist and TV host Neil deGrasse Tyson celebrated the once-in-a-lifetime occasion with his 4.4 million Twitter followers by tweeting a rampage of tech predictions — failed and true — that appeared in the trilogy.

See also: Great Scott! 7 'Back to the Future' gadgets that are real in 2015

Unfortunately, Tyson wasn't completely accurate on all of his facts. He tweeted that although the second film in the trilogy featured "drone-walked dogs," that we don't have them today. However, a New York City-based videographer took his pup for a stroll using an AR drone in 2014. So although it's not massively available or feasible, it still happened Read more...

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