Boo to NCIS, "lithium battery as a bomb?"

[spinningmagnets]

I don't normally watch NCIS, but it was on while I was doing something else, and I happened to be in the room when they investigated a Toyota Prius that had exploded. In the plot, it turned out that someone who was "Gates, Zuckerberg, Musk" levels of smart got the battery to overheat on command and blow up.

Not catch fire (which may have been more believable by bypassing the inherent safety measures that are built in, but....BLOW UP.

I know its hard finding new and interesting plot lines, and things move fast enough that you don't have the budget to hire technical consultants on every little thing. but...this is not little.

If someone has recorded tonight's episode (Tuesday, Sept 20th), please go over it for me and post any salient details I may have missed or gotten wrong.

 

[Hillhater]

Hmm ?....... Toyota PR are going to love that ,!

 

[swbluto]

What, NCIS is a show?! I thought it was the agency in the nondescript brick building in the corner of base(Joint Base Charleston) that absolutely no one knew about (Not even marked on a map, absolutely no signs on the outside that indicated their presence.), besides those unfortunate enough to be detained by the nuke school MA the entire day to get interviewed by the nice guys there and getting fingerprinted, effectively getting accused of a crime you don't recall committing. Oh god, please don't remind me how much roommates can suck, lol.

And the previous roommate, even though he had this awful characteristic, at least he wasn't the sneaky back-stabbing type who kept his plotting well-concealed, taking advantage of the Spanish Inquisition commanding culture of Nuke School.

 

[tec9]

This is the same show that displayed hacking as this

[youtube]u8qgehH3kEQ[/youtube]

The average age of it's viewers is around 55-60, it's unlikely that those viewers would question it's "realism". Frankly I wouldn't take anything on that show seriously.

 

[spinningmagnets]

Yup, that's the one. Always good for a chuckle when they "enhance the pixels" with a program that they wrote on their lunch break.

 

[swbluto]

This is the same show that displayed hacking as this

[youtube]u8qgehH3kEQ[/youtube]

The average age of it's viewers is around 55-60, it's unlikely that those viewers would question it's "realism". Frankly I wouldn't take anything on that show seriously.

If the database server was on that computer (Unlikely in real-life), he did a pretty good job by ripping the cord out.

 

[wesnewell]

The 2016 Prius has an 11.3 gal gas tank. That's what exploded, The battery pack started the fire.

 

[spinningmagnets]

That makes slightly more sense, but...now we're back to technical advisors blowing up gas tanks. Even when its half-full, so there is "some" air in it...its hard to blow up a gas tank. I know that Michael Bay and directors like him have the explosion guys add gasoline to make a good flame-ball, but...it still requires an explosive to get the process going.

I apologize for posting about something where I admittedly only caught a few seconds of what was going on, but...like many viewers, I will only remember the part where a lithium battery was hacked into by a criminal computer guy, and a hybrid car blew up.

Next, a fireman who is responding to a Tesla crash will be electrocuted.

 

[dogman dan]

TV and movie science always amusing. My all time favorite (since I have an ag degree) was the X files movie where the bees were pollinating the corn.

Bees don't pollinate any grass species. Those are all wind pollinated. From then on, when we see bullshit science on the TV, we scream "BEES AND CORN, BEES AND CORN".

There was plenty of good bees and corn in Breaking Bad.

 

[spinningmagnets]

Ha ha...cocoa plants are pollinated by hand...by children. Think about that the next time you are eating chocolate. Yeah, don't get me started on submarine movies, I've served on two actual submarines, and visited several others. The movies are a riot of laughable examples.

 

[swbluto]

This is the same show that displayed hacking as this

[youtube]u8qgehH3kEQ[/youtube]

The average age of it's viewers is around 55-60, it's unlikely that those viewers would question it's "realism". Frankly I wouldn't take anything on that show seriously.

If the database server was on that computer (Unlikely in real-life), he did a pretty good job by ripping the cord out.

I also want to mention that if the hacker did get root access on the computer (The main goal of any hacker), it's plausible if he knew someone was onto him, he would just start launching GUI windows left and right (With a script) to keep them distracted and effectively deny access to the console/database-server/firewall/etc.; however, their illustration of defending against hacking by two people pounding on the same keyboard is definitely laughable, lol.

 

[swbluto]

What, NCIS is a show?! I thought it was the agency in the nondescript brick building in the corner of base(Joint Base Charleston) that absolutely no one knew about (Not even marked on a map, absolutely no signs on the outside that indicated their presence.), besides those unfortunate enough to be detained by the nuke school MA the entire day to get interviewed by the nice guys there and getting fingerprinted, effectively getting accused of a crime you don't recall committing. Oh god, please don't remind me how much roommates can suck, lol.

And the previous roommate, even though he had this awful characteristic, at least he wasn't the sneaky back-stabbing type who kept his plotting well-concealed, taking advantage of the Spanish Inquisition commanding culture of Nuke School.

Just noticed, apparently the marine bootcamp at parris island (Just 40 miles south of Nuke School, right next to Charleston) has the same kind of ridiculously overbearing training culture. I don't understand what's with the ridiculous training cultures in this area. It's a really nice area, awesome climate and pretty awesome town. One of my friends who transferred to Radar Technical school definitely made that place sound so much more awesome: They actually treat you like a human being and you actually have a half a chance at captain's mast, lol.

The culture of cruelty at a Marine Corps training site

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-culture-of-cruelty-at-a-marine-corps-training-site/2016/09/20/9634fafa-7c26-11e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html?utm_term=.e0f83695604f

Amid what the Marine Corps itself has condemned as a culture of hazing and abuse at Parris Island, S.C., one of two main training depots for recruits, a widening inquiry is underway involving mistreatment that targeted brand-new Muslim Marines, one of whom wound up dead at the bottom of a barracks stairwell.

In one instance last year, a drill instructor is accused of badgering a Muslim recruit by calling him a terrorist and ordering him repeatedly into a spinning industrial clothes dryer, leaving him with burns on his neck and arm. In another, involving the same drill instructor, this March, a 20-year-old Muslim recruit, Raheel Siddiqui, valedictorian of his high school in Michigan, jumped 40 feet to his death down a stairwell after he was verbally abused and slapped. He had arrived at Parris Island just 11 days earlier.

I, as well as others, have heard of rumors of people jumping to their deaths at Nuke School from the top of the 3-story barracks in the past, but nothing nearly that extreme had ever happened in the year I was there and there's definitely nothing online about it, so I assumed it was just a rumor trying to highlight how awful students feel the school is. It appears like it isn't just 40 miles south.

 

[swbluto]

As to cocoa, any criticism made about cocoa can also be made of coffee. They're essentially the same kind of plant and grow in the same climates/nations.

Btw, if you want to talk about "Child labor", you should hear about my poor poor mother and her sibilings. Her father made her dig postholes for setting up a barbwire fence around the property, and made them go pick greenbeans and the such for the adults to later wash and prepare them. Imagine the horror! Children working hard, oh no. Working hard outdoors is completely unnatural and cruel punishment reserved for only the worst enemies. (In my opinion, the opposite kind of child treatment in modern society is itself cruel, but in an opposite kind of way whose consequences tends to manifest more subtly in the longterm.)