The reason you sound different on the phone is because "Ma Bell eliminates any frequency that's below 400 hertz or above 3,400. It allows for longer distance in transmition."
Yankee White
Cerebral Embolizm in the Priotal Lobe - Number of clots typically center in the renal artery. In most cases of aterial thrombosis, clots will develop over a period of minutes or hours, spread to the rest of the body.
Differences between Airforce 1 planes - Rear loading hatch is bigger on the 29000, extra laboratory forward, and locks are digital.
Liars can't pee on queue.
Venum from a costal typan, a highly toxic Aussy snake. The venum junks the nurvous system and clots the blood. You convulse and then you stroke. The toxin is almost impossible to detect.
Left for Dead
"Hastily dug graves are rarely [ever deep.]"
The reason graves are 6 feet deep - "6 feet as the minimum depth that the smell of a decomposing corpse cannot attract wild animals."
One of mankind's unconscious oldest fears is being buried alive, "next to that of being eaten by a wild animal. Jung postulated that we genecially inherited our primordial fears which can be triggered by smells or sounds."
Causes of amnesia - blunt force trauma to the cranium, petechial (pinpoint hemorrahaging on the eyelids from a lack of oxygen) hemorrahaging, and emotional trauma.
Determining a quick age of a fossil - Any fossil older than a few thousand years would be black and fossilized.
It's illegal to disturb, and not inform the ARPA, an archelogical site.
Magnetize keys repel magetized pins, instead of serrations, in a magnetized lock. Magnetized locks are usually used in high-security systems. The magnetic code is like a finger print so the system that made the code on the key can be traced.
Chemicals used in high grade explosives - Erythritol, used in low-carb sweetners. Trimethylene, fonud in polyester fibers. Dinitrate, common angina medication. Glycol, is anti-freeze.
Most amnesiacs never remember the event that triggers the memory loss.
Ted Williams has 20-10 vision. He says he can see the seams of a fast ball coming at him.
Micro lasers were developed to put serial numbers on diamonds. The serial numbers are invisible to the naked eye so that thieves think thier hiest is fenceable.
Siting the time of death - Liver temperature gets close to room temperature when death occurred more than 18 hours earlier.
There was a partial palm print on the monnlicher rifler use to assissinate Kennedy.
Body fluids used to identify time of death - take into the account the fixed lividity, the degree of putrefaction, and the level of escherichia coli in the stomach and disgestive track.
Terrorist grade Semtex - Cyclonite and Penaerythride Tetranitrate.
One Shot, One Kill
"Every rifle has a certain range where they experience maximum penitration power. It has to do with ammo load, the length of the barrel, and rifling."
Early Rollout
Citrus, like from an Orange peel, will illuminate if it's derivatized. Amino-naphthalene trisulfonic acid "(ANTS) will make it light up under the ALS."
Sometimes, bicycle shops put their receipts inside the seat pole.
Continuous use of cough drops can cover for the smell of beer on your breath.
The most damaging location to cut a person with a knife is a shallow cut, "5 or 6 centimeters below the sternum."
"Defacing government property," talking about currency in this case, "is a federal offense."
"Drugs work their way through the blood stream and urine, but not hair."
The Truth Is Out There
"Break marks [from car tires] start out light and gradually darken."
"Hire subcontractors, that way they are responsible for 100% of the FICA and Medicare, not just half."
"Any business school professor will tell you that the objective of any company is to motivate your employees so that they provide superior goods and services. (A sarcastic remark.) That's why professors rarely ever succeed in business."
.10 is legally drunk "in all 50 states including the District of Columbia."
Pre-paid "phone cards are impossible to trace."
Taurus and Mercury Sables are the same car.
With a cellphone number and the new cell phones with GPS chips, the location of the phone "can be traced down to 100 meters. All he has to do is answer."
"A newer cellphone [with a] GPS locator, and if the cellphone is still on and the satallites still have a clear line of sight," the phone location can be pinpointed. CSI Miami: Blood Moon
The legality of tracing a phone's location "is a very gray area."
"Never put [more than 1 person] in an interrogation room. [It keeps them from] comparing stories or conspiring to hide the truth."
My Other Left Foot
A liver is crucial to determining the time of death. "You find me a liver in that leg, and I'll estimate a time of death."
"The inventors of Super Glue never imagined that, when heated up and applied to surfaces in gaseous forms, its bonding capabilities would enable us to obtain fingerprints from a human [skin.]"
"The [implant] joint will have a serial number traceable to the doctor who performed the surgery."
Platanus Occidentalis Tree, a sycamore tree - "The seed matured and fell in late fall. It comes from a monoecious yellow flower. The male and female appearing in March to April in seperate spherical heads. The leaf is palmately veined. It's four to eight inches wide, ovate in shape, and has three to five lobes."
"Classic traits of a first born: confidence, pays attention to detail, perfectionist, difficulty sharing."
"Plant DNS, like human DNS, is unique to each plant, so you can distinguish one [...] tree from another."
"Juries get angry when insurance companies don't pay. Especially to the only survivor of a marine injured while serving his country. They tend to award very large multi-million-dollar payments as punishment. Cheaper to pay off" the surviror than be sued.
"Each order [of Digitalis, a heart medication,] has it's own chemical marker, [so] a manufacturer can recall a specific batch if they had a quality control problem."
The Good Samaritan
"If [the hands] were tied before [death,] it would have restricted circulation and the blood would have pooled and been unable to escape. Making the hands redder than the rest of the body."
Hollow Point Bullet is called the Dum-Dum bullets. "In the late 1890s, the British military developed them in India at the Dum-Dum Arsenal. The use in warfare was baned at the first international piece conference in 1899 at the Hauge."
"A nasty form of Hollow Point [Bullet will] expand on contact. It's copper jacket peals back to form six sharp claws." This can cause the bullet to take "a fairly circuitious route."
Cornstarch "is used as a lubricant for latex gloves. There actually quite a contraversy about the use of power as a donning agent in gloves. That's why there are no [finger]prints."
The Tread Assistant Database "has over 10,000 tire tracks for comparison."
A sub-category of "serial killer, the mission oriented type, he seeks out a specific group that he believes the world would be better without."
"Two killings don't make a serial killer."
"A female serial killer goes against the odds. But not unheard of. Womem prefer hands off killing. Women are meticulus about leaving a crime scene free of material evidence."
"Most men prefer hands-on killing--strangulation, stabbing."
"When someone kills their spouse, there's a financial upside."
On a central [video] system, all the timestamps would be the same. You just have to change one [to change the time on all cameras.]"
Bete Noir
"The [British,] Swedes, the Norwegians, Aussies, Kiwis, Saudis -- they all have Royal Navys." "The royal navies of the world wear almost identical uniforms. In fact, during World War II, British naval officers whose ships went down in the channel passed themselves in Antwerp off as German submariners."
"The famous English A-4 Steam locomotive," "the Mallard ran between London to Edinburg for decades. In 1938, it obtained a speed of [202] kilometers per hour. A world record."
Split Decision
"After death, the red blood cells in the eyes breakdown forming potassium. [The eyes clouding] is a by product of that." Using this, an accurate time of death can be determined.
"SMAW fires two type of warheads: HEDP: high explosive dual purpose, and HEAA: high explosive anti-armor. The DP leaves a crator, the AA leaves a hole [in the ground.]
"SMAW: shoulder-launch multipurpose assult weapon. The safety backblast on that weapon is a hundred meters." When the SMAW is fired, [the igniter cap] is ejected out the back."
"When you write data onto a hard drive, it's triggered electronically and magnetically onto a hard drive plate. Even though the drive is reformatted, all the data is still here. It's just a matter of Humpty Dumtying it."
"Our cell phones have GPS technology. They'll take them, sweep us for a signal, make sure we're not wired."
The Immortal
"[People] drive on the lefthand side of the road in England. Dates back to Midevil times. Most people were, and still are, righthanded. It allows them to slash at one-another when passing on horseback."
"M.M.O.R.P.G. - Massive Multi-player On-line Roll Playing Game - They are huge on the Internet. There can be thousands of players on one side alone."
In a M.M.O.R.G.P., "a character charter would [...] be a characters manifesto, his goals, moral stance, creed."
"A suicide can tear of a Catholic family. They take it very seriously. He was wearing a St. Christophor metal when they found him. Even the most hardened criminals wouldn't cross that line. It's part of culture."
The Curse
"I beleive 'mumified' is the adjitive your searching for. The tank must have been airtight creating a hermetic environment. No air, no bugs, no critters. And more importantly, no bacteria."
"TFOA, Things Falling Off Aircraft, squadrons have files on those, going all the way back to bi-planes."
The mumified Egyptions "were buried along with personal treasures to accompany them on the journey to the after-life."
The Eisenhower aircraft carrier is "95,000 tons, 24-story tall, [and] 1,049 feet-long."
"Pod(s) are attached to the TomCat by an MXU rack with two hooks. When the pilot wants to eject the pod, he flip the switch and the hooks disengage. The forward and aft ejectors fire and kick it off away. The ejectors would [...] make dents in the pod. The remove a pod on deck, you insert a key into the MXU rack and turn it. That withdraws the hooks."
"A niblick is what a nine iron use to be called when golf was the provence of Scottish nobles."
UnSEALed
"Leavenworth is Army CID jurisdiction. CID is going to research where he's been. [CIS] is going to research where he's going."
SAINT data "is like LoJack for inmates. It should be able to tell us when and where our chicken flew the coup."
"SAINT tracks both inmates and guards through a single source data system that compares information on a digital smart card that every inmate is required to carry with some aspect of their physiology." In other words, "you got a fingerprint. You got a card. You swipe, you press, match-match. The computer knows who you are and where you are. The readers are in every cell and every entryway to locations in the prison. So there's no need for bed checks, or role calls. You save time. You save money."
You can use toothpaste to create a fingerprint. "The biometeric readers know lines and ridges in 3 dimensions. They don't check for pulse."
"Most inmates [...] blames everyone but himself for his conviction."
"You can't have an indoor gas station because of all the fumes."
"Fractures of the cervical spine, [breaking the neck, can] incompacitate the victum with a violent and most likely fatal twist of the head." "He knew how to kill with his hands, like a Navy Seal."
The Weak Link
"He wants to know, where our relationship is going." Guys "have to push the issue because they are insecure."
"'Fine. Whatever!' [Is] typical passive agressive" from men.
"The life time odds of dieing from a fall like this [an experience repelling situation] are roughly equivalent of the odds of dieing from a collision with a astroid."
Finally
"73% of UK graduates are 21 [years of age.]"
Software that determines a person's age use "algorithms for cardioidal strain, pore size, at-a-post tissue length of the nose and ears."
Your nose and ears "keep getting longer the older you get wheather or not your wear earrings."
Smoky Sam is a quad launcher with four missles. Maximum altitude is 1,400 feet of the missles. "Unless your flighting an ultralight, Smoky Sam can't hurt you. It just spits out paper and styrofone. Smoky Sam looks awfully real coming up at you. Navy uses them in Top Gun."
"Hamas is like the Mafia. They'd never trust anyone outside the family."
When Marine 1 leaves the White House, "it will meet two identical marine helos at the Washington Memorial. All three Sea Kings will then fly to the Potomac and follow it North towards Maryland switching positions now and then to conseal which of them is Marine 1." [Video: NCIS-Finally - Marine1 Flight Plans.mpg @ 17:1]
If Marine 1 "must think they've been fired out by shoulder launched rockets. That scenario requires all of them to execute an immediate emergency landing."
"In Italy, boys [of age 25] are still living with Mama."
"When one spends one's career traveling around the globe, one has an unlimited supply of mysterious and intriging tales."
Hurricane Anthony
When a person is hit by a car, "the first point of impact is the knees."
"Biggest mistake people make in a hurricane is to leave their windows exposed. One gets broken, wind gets in, pressure increases... blows out the other windows." [Video: CSI- Miami - Hurricane Anthony - Why Windows Break.mpg @ 15:31]
"A blood stained foam errupted from his mouth which means he had air, water, and mucase present during respiration."
In drowning, water filling the "lungs, collapses ???down veoli???, and saturated the red blood cells until they burst causing heart failure." [Video: CSI- Miami - Hurricane Anthony - Drowning.mpg @ 21:10]
"Simple soap and water can take care of [gunshot residue,] not to mention rain from a storm."
"Things that are flushed to the ground in a hurricane tend to stay that way. The wind has nothing to get under."
A ragged entry wound for a bullet "indicating that it penetrade with less force than a direct hit. Like an injure consistent with a ricochet."
"Hurricanes pick up small boats, small animals... A surfboard could be used for loft so that the hurricane can pick him up at the beach and then drop him [...] inland." [Video: CSI- Miami - Hurricane Anthony - Hurricane Loft.mpg @ 35:50]
"CODIS would have red flagged him as being in the [Witness Protection Program.]"
"A 150 mile per hour wind can lift a bullet 220 to 300 feet per second." [Video: CSI- Miami - Hurricane Anthony - Bullet in the Wind.mpg @ 47:50]
"[Hurricanes] do elivate global warming."
High Seas
"A carrier is a big and confusing place first time on board. Numbers are stenciled on the bulkheads. The first one tells you the deck level. They are called bull's-eyes. The second one the frame number. Third tells you the compartment's position in relation to the ship's center line. The last letter tells you what the space is used for." [Video: NCIS-High Seas - Aircraft Carrier Directions.mpg @ 11:44]
Landing on an aircraft carrier "isn't like landing in a 747. Dropping from 120 knots to zero in one second can take [the breath] out of you."
"The cat launch is like the wire landing, but only in reverse. We go from zero to 140 knots in a second and a half. Cross your arms. Chin to your chest. Learn forward as far as you can. And breath normally."
A body temperature of 106 degrees Farenheight is "high enough to kill most men, unless their cardiovascular system was being boosted by some sort of stimulant."
To try and beat a drug test, some "try detox drinks, herbal tea, vinegar, some try slipping bleach crystals in, or even passing off a shipmate's clean sample as their own." Most of these methods "don't fly, but every once in a while one does slip through. No system's perfect."
"The way [drug kits] work is simple. Place a small sample of the suspected substance inside the pouch and seal it. Break the ampule inside the pouch which releases the test chemicals. If the clear liquid turns to color, we have drugs."
Missing
When a person disappears and there's "no ransom note, been missing over 5 days, I'd say the odds were against [them being alive.]"
"Bron - It's a mixture of speed and codiene. It's illegal [in the US] but available over the counter in Philippines and Okinawa, Japan." Bron is made up "of ephedrine, dihydrocodeine and caffine."
Dead Man Talking
A person, who would typically carry a fire arm, may chose to leave it behind while "tailing somebody, going from place to place, didn't want to stop to identify himself or risk setting off an alarm."
"In order to cut down on the cash dispursed, the D. O. D. issues credit cards. A phoney company was set up, making small charges against a vast number of these accounts, the accounts which [specific finance officers] approved."
Enigma
"[When a person] is willing to risk his own life and reputation for a friend, but he's not going to risk [others,] you let him know that he's not alone in his convictions."
"Though it's rare for paranoid schizophrenia to strike a man [...] late in life, it's not unheard of."
"Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean that people aren't out to get you."