On Fri, 30 May 2014 07:33:03 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

I just watched the unveiling of Space X's new space capsule called
"Dragon V2". Thing is really cool.

In the unveiling that starts at about 3:20 into the video, they have a
countdown and what appears to be a white drape that hides the capsule
from the audience drops to the ground and magically disappears into thin
air.

Pretty cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDZ-kAYbzl4#t=225

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It is cool and very well done. That little puff of mist at the
critical moment is obviously obscuring some of the magic but I also
think that there may have been some of the standard film making
trickery involved. The drape is clearly segmented into panels and it
looks like they are being whisked off and under the stage in some way
not visible.