Csi.Ny can they do that...

so i was watching a re-run of csi new york and they had a guess a scan of the body and then it went to like a cgi view of they body. they where searching the intestines and was able to narrow down the scan to just show the intestines. Then they proceeded to basically get an "exploded view" of the intestine and found what they was looking for. do we have the technology to really do that???

 

Why..are you planning a homicide? LOL ;D

 

Arg, no. I always catch bits and pieces when my girlfreind is watching them. Most of the time they are total crap and I have to roll my eyes at some of the silly stuff. Next time you watch the show pay close attention at the computer segments, the computer will always BEEP BEEP BEEP and makes all these futuristic sounds, it makes me laugh. In reality, the usual thing is to go through an automated system that takes awhile epscially AFIS, boring. Anyways, about 99.9% of that stuff on shows are inaccurate, law enforcement is nothing like it is depicted on TV

Just remembered; they do have a cool new thing that the TSA is using at airports that actually sees though clothing but thats about the coolest new thing that is not classified.

 

xkcd: Science Montage

 

LOL was just kidding ya'. I know that technology in forensic science is way better than even 15 years ago. But I doubt alot of what is seen on CSI is anything more than a writers dream. My wife watches all of those shows and last night there was an episode where they found a body that had been dumped in a waste grease bin behind a restaraunt. When the investigators went to remove it all the flesh fell off the skeleton. We as dumb viewers are supposed to believe that 1. a cooked body looks the same as a natural dead one 2. cooked skin comes off said cooked body in one whole big piece (looked like a rubber halloween costume lol) and 3. Cooked bodies that are well done enough to have the skin and muscle slough off are still red and bloody on the inside. LOL gotta love script writers;D

 

Now, if I went I told you the answer to that, I'd have to kill you.....

So, I haven't seen the TV show you are referring to .... I hardly watch any TV.... but the answer is No... but....

No, police departments and such do not have technology like that. Sorry. Are there some amazing things out there that aren't well known????... absolutely. But not anything like what you described.

At NASA we call stuff like that in movies and TV "techno-speak".... taking a series of technical sounding words and stringing them together to sound cool. Easiest example is the "Flux Capacitor" from "Back to the Future" if you remember that movie. Sounds cool... a Flux Capacitor is the secret to time travel after all in the movie... it must be cool. Guess what???? ALL CAPACITORS HAVE FLUX... THAT IS HOW THEY WORK.... but hey, it sounded cool in the movies.

There are other funny examples... whenever they show communication from space in a movie they fuzz it up some and make the sound grainy... like it was in the Apollo Program 40 years ago.... well.... it ain't quite like that today. Streaming HD over the internet.... that is exactly how we download HiDef video from space...

SO... long answer but no.... sounds like techno-speak.

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