CSI Miami beats Law and Order at its own game?
Law and Order ads like to emphasis the stories as ripped from the headlines. The March 7th episode of CSI Miami combined two recent news stories:
- a corporate size jet crashes in an urban area
- somebody shines a green laser at the cockpit.
In real life, the jet didn’t end up in someone’s backyard, but into a warehouse. (I also found a crash in Miami that hit a strip mall.)
The green laser wasn’t actually powerful enough to cause eye damage. It’s just like a powerful flashlight, don’t forget the inverse square law. The power of the laser drops too quickly to affect the pilot after takeoff; you’d have to be really close.
The odd thing is that the plane crash didn’t enter the plot per se and the laser pointing person was arrested in a quick throw-away scene. A waste of headline-ripping, I guess.
