So just now watching NCIS and the show started with a 1970 Cutlass Supreme convertible in the garage. Anyone else catch that beginning scene?

I liked that it was an unrestored car with faded paint and worn seat covers but had lots of options such as bucket seats, console, sport steering wheel, and a functional 8 track player.

 

Caught that. Later in the episode, they showed it as newer back in 72 as a 442 vert.

 

Oh, it was a 442? I didn't catch that as I wasn't really watching and the wife changed the channel. Vert body was the same between the 442 and Supreme, but all I saw was the shot from the left rear showing the tail lights and a couple interior interior shots through the drivers side window.

 

Really like that show , I'll have to check it later on DVR

 

They kinda lost me when they ran an episode where they caught the bad guy by using the full technical capabilities of their laboratory to find traces of liquid nitrogen on the tools in his toolbox. I mean, c'mon, everyone knows that air is 78% nitrogen. Total fail.

 

it had the cut out bumper and trumpet tips.and i swear it had a ram air hood too

 

I didn't watch the NCIS episode and I have no idea how they measured the presence for liquid nitrogen (you stated they found traces). None-the-less, there is an enormous difference in the footprint liquid nitrogen (-320° Fahrenheit) imparts onto a specific type of metal (steel, brass, lead, titanium, etc.) versus the footprint gaseous nitrogen at ambient temperature would impart onto the same surface. So, it doesn't sound too far fetched they were able to demonstrate the presence of a liquid nitrogen imprint onto certain metal tools. IMO, the liquid nitrogen would have long disappeared, but there may yield an imprint and residue on the metal from the contact w/ liquid nitrogen.

 

I work in an analytical lab with materials scientists and chemical engineers; we we do lots of work using SEMs, FTIR, RAMAN, etc and I can tell you no one is going to "detect traces of liquid nitrogen" on anything.

 

As I clearly stated, I did not see the episode. You stated they found traces of LN2 - I don't know that to be the case - I'll take your word for it. I never stated they found traces of LN2 on anything. I CLEARLY stated they may have found an imprint as the result of LN2 interacting with a particular substance.I worked on JEOL, Phillips & Hitachi TEM & SEM and I taught TEM & SEM; and, I can clearly tell you for a fact that materials (metals) can leave an imprint based upon interactions with substances. This can CLEARLY be substantiated via thin sectioning and TEM visualization and/or SEM employing various colloidal metal shrouding properties. You'll see a far clearer presence of interactions when you're measuring in Angstroms. You appear rather hell-bent a Hollywood money-making television show didn't state facts. Big deal.

 

I dislike that TV shows misrepresent science, such as one of the CSI shows claiming they lifted finger prints off of a cotton cloth.

 

My sister runs a lab up in Delaware. She used to joke about CSI and NCIS saying that if her department had the money to buy all of the gear that you see on those shows, they could solve every crime in an hour or less also. No lab has the cash for all of those toys.