"Light bending"? The only one even suggesting that is you, with your blatant handwaving to a claim you made up on the spot. The funny part is there is that since you're making claims up on the spot which themselves equate to "magic" and for which you lack any evidence whatsoever, there is ABSOLUTELY no reason to conclude that they would have "missed" parallax other than your entirely baseless and arbitrary assumption.

Light-bending is the claim often repeated on Zetatalk. It is not my postulate. I am only elucidating what and what not you can test for.