A cruel hoax was perpetrated this week that made people believe hoverboards, a special effect first seen in the 1989 film Back the Future II, had finally been invented thanks to a viral video starring Christopher Lloyd and Tony Hawk.
The fake ad by Funny or Die was seen by millions of people within days and became the nerdgasm heard around the world.
Lloyd, who played Doc Brown in the timeless time-traveling trilogy, has since apologized (sort of) for his part in the prank, which claimed a bunch of MIT brainiacs had cooked up special high-powered lithium-ion batteries that would enable users to —as the name implies — hover in the air atop a board.
As you may recall, 2015 was the year he and local boy Michael J. Fox first went back to the future to and the viral video serves as a cruel reminder of just how lazy real life scientists have been with just a year left to go. Sure, we all carry around gizmos in our pockets that are basically Star Trek-level supercomputers, but we still don’t have hoverboards. Or flying cars. Or even jetpacks.
But we do at least have drones, which, since they have yet to become sentient and turn on us, can be equipped with cameras to offer a glimpse of what it would be like to fly over the Vancouver area.
See for yourself with this new video made by Alterna Films. As Marty McFly would say, it's heavy.
Hopefully they had permission to shoot the footage above the Lions Gate Bridge because otherwise they too may soon have to issue an apology — and likely pay a hefty fine — for violating NavCanada airspace.
