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- mrferg, on 04/12/2009, -1/+519Yes! That photo enhancement ***** has always aggravated me.
- HalsMyPal, on 04/12/2009, -22/+488I agree that mythbusters is not super rigorous but cmon..... it is a 44 min tv show..... and it has explosions and lots of laughs and..... CARRIE! who doesnt love carrie?
also they usually use a control in a lot of their tests. - gramathy, on 04/12/2009, -4/+324Name spelling: Kari
- oda1, on 04/12/2009, -0/+309I've never laughed as hard in my life as the day I saw the episode in CSI where they ZOOMED INTO the eye of a bystander and FROM THE REFLECTION IN THEIR EYE got a usable picture of the killer.
- d2002, on 04/12/2009, -10/+272By Jorge Cham:
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comici ... - LilJimmyNordin, on 04/12/2009, -9/+264The problem with the line is that Mythbusters very OFTEN uses controls. I'm not suggesting that their processes are faultless, just that the comic betrays its author as someone who either doesn't watch the show, or doesn't pay attention.
- nesagwa, on 04/12/2009, -2/+226If you watch the deleted and behind the scenes stuff they cut out HOURS of experimentation and alternate tests for the sake of TV.
- Bennzor, on 04/12/2009, -12/+217love the whats a "control" line and i read it in his voice which made it even better.
- Takfam, on 04/12/2009, -0/+199I want to see one with "If TV doctors were more like real doctors."
House in rehab. The entire cast of Grey's Anatomy in nymphomania recovery. It has potential. - mentallyinhell, on 04/12/2009, -0/+148Email this to all the CSI fans you know as fast as you can.
- LilJimmyNordin, on 04/12/2009, -16/+158I think I have to bury this for *****-talking Adam and Jamie. Crap on CSI all you want, just leave my Mythbusters alone.
- inactive, on 04/12/2009, -0/+108http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQCkDGdJpts&fea ...
Lol - gdo01, on 04/12/2009, -1/+92http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Enhance ...
You mean I can't use Google Earth images and "Enhance Button" the 3 pixels that I believe is a naked woman? - HAL90000, on 04/12/2009, -1/+90And they often re-test in later episodes if it's disputed by many viewers. It's not like they don't try, but like you said, they have time constraints and it is an entertainment show first, and a science show second.
- BigCalvin247, on 04/12/2009, -0/+87Every time i see a movie/TV show "enhance" a digital image, I die a little inside...
- pensivewombat, on 04/12/2009, -0/+79Actually most of the doctors I know claim Scrubs is the most realistic hospital TV show. Obviously not the fantasy sequences and stuff, but the generally more lighthearted tone. They're working very stressful jobs and yes, there is often a lot of sex, but it's more the "hey wouldn't it be fun to do it in the supply closet" kind and not the soap opera kind of sex.
- digitalArtform, on 04/12/2009, -10/+85If TV Science WERE More Like Real Science.
Buried for failure to use the subjunctive.
:D - catachip, on 04/12/2009, -1/+70Yeah, I always love how they put a blood sample in a machine for a PCR and a second later a DNA helix is spinning on a screen and they're comparing it against a database. When I do a PCR it takes like 8 hours. And even then, you'd still need to run the product out on a gel, view it under a UV light, select the band, isolate it, prepare it for sequencing, send that out for sequencing (another overnight wait) and then you could do a BLAST analysis or whatever the hell you wanted... although, that is far less dramatic.
- LilJimmyNordin, on 04/12/2009, -1/+61A good deal of the more fiddly, less TV-friendly processes in the experiments gets edited out. I have to often remind myself that the show is meant to do two things- Provide a nutshell version of the scientific process, and entertain. It's rarely the case that we're seeing the actual discovery process at work- Advised by their staff and researchers, I'd say they regularly know the results and the underlying science before they shoot a single frame.
- pensivewombat, on 04/12/2009, -1/+58Yeah, it bugs me when people complain about Mythbusters. They are very careful about how they ask their questions. If you are just trying to show that something is possible, you only need one data point. In other cases they will only claim that an idea is "plausible" which again doesn't require vast amounts of data. Disproving something is obviously more difficult, but they generally just set up something well outside the realms of possibility and show that even that couldn't work, which is arguably a better method than using a large sample size since they are dealing with events that are improbably by definition.
- cthellis, on 04/12/2009, -3/+57Thing is, he has about 150 billion other, better targets on TV than Mythbusters.
- wonkavsn, on 04/12/2009, -0/+52I always feel sort of embarrassed whenever CSI talks about chemistry.
- BrutePhysics, on 04/12/2009, -2/+53Hey now... don't touch my mythbusters. They inspire kids to do science through crazy experiments and explosions.
Even if their methods are a little *ahem* un-orthodox. :) - Tubal22, on 04/12/2009, -0/+51YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
- GalacticRerun, on 04/12/2009, -0/+50"There's something. Okay zoom in. Now clear up the image. It's him! Clear as day, let's move!"
- Gallowspoling, on 04/12/2009, -1/+48I saw one with a conversation that went like so:
"We added a base to neutralize the acid"-lab tech
"To reach 7, neutral pH"- Grisham(in matter of fact tone)
Yes Grisham, thank you, you're a CSI and you understand junior high chemistry. - GregIsLegend, on 04/12/2009, -4/+51http://xkcd.com/397/
- FoxOrian, on 04/12/2009, -0/+46I love how she's like "Ahh, you mean corneal imaging?" as if it's something standard in CSI practices, taught in all the training, highlighted in the hand books, etc.
Reminds me of that moment in Futurama:
Guards: "Did your hump just talk?"
Fry: "Uhh, I have... talking hump... syndrome."
Guards: "Ah, THS." - RoloTomasie, on 04/12/2009, -0/+44Enhance! Enhance!
(sorry, I was obligated) - blinktude, on 04/12/2009, -0/+40what?
i thought all security cameras were 1000megapixel cameras. - KublaiKhan, on 04/12/2009, -5/+44They definitely use controls, yeah, but I think it's fair to say that their sample sizes could generally bear to be a bit larger. (Not that that would be easy, considering that they need to condense their experiments into an hour-long TV show.)
- simplicityiskey, on 04/12/2009, -11/+50And 'Heroes' would never have gone on the air.
- BedPost, on 04/12/2009, -0/+39I thought she spelled her name 36C
- Scira, on 04/12/2009, -0/+35You're saying it doesn't take a supercomputer to trace an IP address?!
- Whatasillyhat, on 04/12/2009, -0/+34Gentlemen, we have a spinoff.
- rixbad, on 04/12/2009, -0/+33Anybody who has been in any graphics-related business has had clients who think there is an "enhance button" we can use to make that website-downloaded image into a 500% enlarged 300 dpi CMYK printed image. A pox on all writers who use that crap in a script. Where did they get that idea to begin with?
- koenigje, on 04/12/2009, -0/+32hahah "The resolution isn't very good"
Nope, but we can zoom in directly onto her eye, change angles and catch the killer... - reddikilowatt, on 04/12/2009, -0/+31She knows how to handle heavy weaponry. Sweater puppies are a bonus.
- verynegative, on 04/12/2009, -0/+31*puts sunglasses on*
- speedyrev, on 04/12/2009, -0/+28I love the transparent heads up monitors and custom computer software that is beyond anything in the world and it's sitting in a local police dept.
- AltF3, on 04/12/2009, -1/+29Tyler Perry's House of Payne would have more particle accelerators.
- appleofdischord, on 04/12/2009, -0/+28She is every nerd's wetdream. It's not just the *****.
- inactive, on 04/12/2009, -0/+28He's -really- fat.
- nerddtvg, on 04/12/2009, -2/+29I agree, but I wouldn't say a completely lack of scientific rigor. They spend the time to see if something is possible. And if they get the result that it is possible, that is confirmed. And if they don't, they do generally have an explanation as to why or why the test would never have suceeded even if the actual myth could have.
- FordSVT1, on 04/12/2009, -2/+27@ AManWithNoName
Satire only succeeds when it exposes and exaggerates an underlying and recognized truth. The point here is that Mythbusters doesn't really do what he accuses them of, therefore it's not good satire. - LukeD, on 04/12/2009, -7/+32http://digg.com/comics_animation/If_TV_science_was ... suggests no, some douchebag just stuck it on imageshack so they didn't have to credit the original.
***** you d2002 - sedawk, on 04/12/2009, -1/+25Funny, except for the Mythbusters panel. While far from real science, their "experiments" generally include multiple tests, some statistics and control samples.
- MasterGrief, on 04/12/2009, -1/+25Out of all the people on TV now, I respect the Mythbusters the most. It's a fantastic show, and I think it's a great way to get kids interested in science. Seeing them in this comic really threw me off, too.
- aurorous, on 04/12/2009, -0/+23And she's a redhead... lets not forget that
- iBleeedOrange, on 04/12/2009, -0/+23So why aren't you dead yet?
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