A way to measure force...

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

I'm terribly annoyed by this statement. If you do nothing else as a potential engineer, trust nothing you see on CSI or any similar show. It's fluff that has minimal basis in reality. I saw an episode where they purported to decode a conversation recorded on a clay vase that was spinning on a pottery wheel with straw dragging along its surface. While it might seem plausible with the similarity to how a record is made, clay is not wax, and a bundle of straw is not a metal needle attached to a diaphragm. Whatever science the have is secondary to their plot, and only vaguely based in reality.

I like how they can take a photo, zoom in on a person's eye, say "let me see if I can enhance this" and then seconds later they have a gigantic and perfectly clear picture of what the person was looking at (the reflection in their eye). Or howabout they take a finger print and say "let me run this" and then seconds later "boop boop boop bing!, it's a match!"

Anyhow, back to the thread.