via extremetech.com
P.T. Barnum is famously credited with saying, “There is a sucker born every minute.” This week’s viral videos of a Dutch man taking flight powered only by a set of flapping wings certainly demonstrates that we all want to believe in the power of technology. There were plenty of skeptics ragging on the videos for flaws in production and physics, but an equal number of faithful rose to the defense of fictional Jarno Smeets, until he himself — in the person of filmmaker Floris Kaayk – revealed the entire effort was an elaborate hoax.
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