I dont think fireworks were fake. becuase i believe that it will take much longer time and higher technologies to invent fake firework systems by laser. so i think fireworks were not fake, becuase as mentioned before china is the country of fireworks.
What? First im not chinese nor American. Second, China got the most gold. and the calculations say that china won. SIMPLE
Quit arguing about something in a forum that you can Google and find the answer in seconds. Google "fireworks fake" http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/08/12/fake.fireworks.ap/