Magnetic Bullets

[furtech]

Nothing much happening. The CSI:NY episode featuring magnetic bullets* is on Spike now. ARRRRGH!!!


*The bullets are regular lead .38's. The magnetized gun is within the realm of physical possibility, though nowhere near as powerfully as it was.

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[revengetherapy.livejournal.com]

oh, but they'll whip out the cyberhypercarbonrecombobulator that solves the crime without melina kanakaredes even having to get her hair all over the gun!


(hahaha. i have such a love-hate relationship with csi, it's ridiculous...)

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Love-hate exactly describes my constant viewing of reruns on cable (mostly as background when I'm on the computer). Once I was able to separate the "science" from the character interactions, I liked the show a whole lot more (bad science, great character/story).

...but-- MAGNETIC BULLETS!!!

Sometimes they still manage to pop that bad science fuse.

[cooner.livejournal.com]

I can't stand CSI.

One of the first/only episodes I watched (I don't even remember which series it was), they were watching a guy moving around a pawn shop on a security videotape, and when the guy moved offscreen to another part of the shop, the techie guy showing them the tape chirped up, "Oh, but VHS ... OVERSCANS!" and he proceeded to bump the tape's image a full two-thirds of a field over to a wall in the pawn shop the security camera wasn't even pointed at. :P

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah-- their "Bladerunner" video programs! I remember the "overscan" episode! I can even imagine how the writer came up with it! He was slumming in Editing, and asked what that box on the editing screen was ("Oh, that's the safe area.") and came up with this BRILLIANT idea! Just like the writer who came up with the magnetic bullets by extrapolating from the time he forgot to take his watch off when he went in for an MRI.

The best was when they had a security camera (plain ol'cheap-O B&W video camera) and were able to get a detailed face by zooming in on the reflection of a face on the shiney car door handle, then adjusting for the distortion and getting a surprisingly detailed image of the face. All this from what was (at most) a single pixel on a grainy piece of video!

I'm waiting for them to get a detailed picture of the suspect from the after-image on a digital camera's photosensor chip!

[cooner.livejournal.com]

Haha. The whole "digital enhance" phenomenon used to irritate me a lot more. I guess I've pretty much given up on that as just a given technology that exists in the TV/movie universe.

And yeah, someday i want to see them use "VHS overscan" to turn the field of view 180 degrees to get a look at the photographer's face. :D

[skiefire.livejournal.com]

Heh, that happens in nearly every film or TV show. Zoom, rotate, refactor, ENHANCE! AHA!

In-fact, I cheer when a film actually makes a point of not doing it. Cop: "Can you zoom in on that area and clear the image up?" Tech:"what the hell do you think this is? Its a crappy image, it aint getting any better!"

[furtech.livejournal.com]

There -was- a show that recently did that! I forget which show (NCIS?), but the detective asked the tech to enlarge and enhance and the tech looked at him like he was crazy. The tech may even have given him (later) a glossy print-out...of a gray splotch. The detective asks if that's the best he can do and the tech makes some crack about CSI-type television.

[sharamordinae.livejournal.com]

CSI I cant stand due to the fact the first episode I saw was waaaaaaaaaay to graphic for me. There are certin parts of the body I do not need to see them picking samples off of. LOL

[beetlecat.livejournal.com]

Lol CSI.

I don;t watch it anymore but I remeber wincing at how they can press a few buttons to enhance and counter shade and extrapolate some mirrored low-quality stilled video to know exactly who they are after and why. After about 5 seconds.

It makes real police work seem like a joke.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

The first time I really began to doubt was the furry episode (I had only seen bits and pieces before). They don't realize that the dead guy in the raccoon costume had been shot until they opened the suit up and it was filled with blood (like a furry water balloon). "They sometimes line their costumes with latex to make them more realistic" was their explanation as to why the blood didn't leak out when on the road or transported to the morgue. Never mind the zipper, open mask or bullet hole.

[sharamordinae.livejournal.com]

That episode just angered me.