Comment by Yuan Gao on March 21, 2012 at 2:19pm

I did a little internet search on the people involved (and I posted this on a couple of places as well):

This guy Jarno Smeets made all his social networking accounts around the same time
Youtube: 6th July
Twitter: 6th July
Facebook: 6th July
first post on blog: 11th July.

Then taking a look at the same for Floor Pietersen, a girl who appears in several of his videos:
Flikr: October
Youtube: 14th October
Blogspot: October
Twitter: 11th October,

So yeah, I guess it's not unlikely that a someone goes and signs up for all the social networking sites around the same time, I guess that they SUDDENLY discovered all these social networking sites one day and decided to sign up for all of them, and all they ever post about are stuff related to the project.  But this is some pretty typical patterns for a professionally sponsored viral video campaign, where these people need to make false online identities to use for the project.

Comment by Joel on March 21, 2012 at 2:40pm

Update: Jamie Hyneman, from Mythbusters, weighs in with his opinion

Comment by Joel on March 21, 2012 at 2:48pm

Oh, jasonshort already linked it

Comment by swordfishBob on March 21, 2012 at 2:54pm

Flapping wings depend on body inertia to facilitate the "up" stroke. I like the comment about ducks. I expect there's a reason why we don't have flying birds the size of elephants. Scaling up from "bird size" is problematic. Some aspects will increase linearly, some in square proportion, some cubic.

To do it without some ridiculously big forces, I'd go for an additional wing or two: glide on a wing or a pair of wings while lifting the other wing(s)

Comment by Matthew Tang on March 21, 2012 at 2:54pm

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/human-bird-wings-hoax/

Comment by Ellison Chan on March 21, 2012 at 3:27pm

Well at this point, unless he flies into my backyard, and I actually see him landing I won't believe that he's achieve the flight.

Comment by Daniel Hibben on March 21, 2012 at 7:21pm

it looks just like the ones I built  when I was 10  only Bigger

 I Think its Doable

Comment by Andreas on March 21, 2012 at 8:08pm

Now this video does not look fake. US tax dollars at work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUtyUTLeW1g

Comment by Jack Crossfire on March 21, 2012 at 11:44pm

We wanted to believe, but the shadow was on the wrong side of the actor. Sounds like he found a design flaw at some point in the project & instead of giving up, made a movie of what would have happened if the idea worked. Could RC motors & a kite wing lift a human?

Comment by Mike on March 22, 2012 at 4:32am

What's really shocking is that people seem to think Mythbusters is a credible scientific reference....

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