CSI Miami Fubars
Sep. 7th, 2007 10:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stickmakerOkay, this is the episode where the street racer loses his head.
First, they call a receiver a transmitter, though this is later corrected.
What is not corrected is a mistake I have joked about but didn't think anyone would actually make. Another street racer steals jet fuel for his car, but it's too powerful and his engine runs out of control and catches fire.
Uh, folks... jet fuel is a narrow cut of kerosene with some additives which do things like reduce the vapor pressure. It's actually _less_ suitable than regular kerosene for gasoline engines. Put that in your gasoline tank, and as soon as it hits the cylinders the engine just... stops.
First, they call a receiver a transmitter, though this is later corrected.
What is not corrected is a mistake I have joked about but didn't think anyone would actually make. Another street racer steals jet fuel for his car, but it's too powerful and his engine runs out of control and catches fire.
Uh, folks... jet fuel is a narrow cut of kerosene with some additives which do things like reduce the vapor pressure. It's actually _less_ suitable than regular kerosene for gasoline engines. Put that in your gasoline tank, and as soon as it hits the cylinders the engine just... stops.
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Date: 2007-09-08 02:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-08 02:11 pm (UTC)It's not just that they made a mistake. Anyone who knows what jet fuel actually _is_ would know their results were the opposite of reality. Don't they have editors and fact checkers on TV shows?