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That 20 second mark is pretty damning - the shadow cast on the wing by the guy on the left is visible before his body is in front of the wing.

Thanks for crushing my dreams.

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There's a few frames around 20 second mark that look strange - here's one where the guy seems ready to run through the left tip, his left thigh is behind the wing, and his left foot seems to be in front: http://imgur.com/riyjn

Next frame he appears in front of the wing entirely. I don't know - does post processing software do weird things that cause visual artifacts?

My pleasure. I worked on the visual effects team for a movie with a _lot_ of compositing. This is cut-rate stuff. Can you imagine what sort of things we will believe if someone were doing this sort of fakery with a real budget?

Exactly - I read the Wired article yesterday and didn't even think to second-guess it even though in general I'm something of a skeptic. I just marveled at how clever and technologically advanced humans have become.

Ironically, this is a demonstration of how clever and technologically advanced we are, but not in the way I originally thought!

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