You and I both know that the dual motorcycle/ human collision scene in Mission: Impossible 2 isn’t possible, but man did it ever look good. And Tom Cruise and Dougray Scott didn’t even get their hair mussed. Popular Science looks at this and some other impossible Hollywood physics scenes.

See about 1:43 in the video clip below, to understand which scene I’m referring to. (Where the two men jump off their motorcycles and slam into each other bodily but don’t get injured.)