Was watching this show the other night and had a laugh when it came to this part. I imagine the producer/director calling over to a lackey " Hey sonny, grab one of them tripod stands and one of them surveying thing-a-majigs and toss it into the car. The Inspector needs to scientifically prove a point."
Don't think I'll be asking him to help with MY equipment.
Rolling around in the trunk???? Carried like a builder's level.?ÿ Sloppy setup, not close to level, that magically ended up pointed where he wanted with negligible aiming.
I think it said Topcon.?ÿ Did any of their models have the view through the scope they showed, with horizontal reading?
Wonder if it was rented.
That's pretty hilarious.
Also, I like when action or sci fi movies flash a coordinate, like a lat and long to the minute, to a secret hatch the size of a manhole in a heavily wooded area, and then in the next scene some people roll up on it like it's got the bat signal broadcasting its exact location.
That's no more amazing than the fact that all movie bomb countdowns happen with the timer in sync to the second with everybody's watch (well, back when people wore watches and weren't networked).
Not quite the same thing with coordinates, but I laugh when I see another mismatch in reverse.
There is a local astronomy club with an impressive observatory in a county park.?ÿ Someone (I think a survey tech with GPS access) has put up a sign on one of the domes with lat-lon to something like millimeter precision, and nobody can tell me what point was measured.?ÿ If it was the axis of the scope the sign should be inside the dome, but I really doubt anybody bothered to offset to that invisible point.?ÿ
And no datum given.?ÿ For them it should be astronomic, but nobody can get that within orders of magnitude of the sign precision, and their readouts are in minutes or fractions thereof anyway.
@bill93 A faked view through the scope! That was a compass scale (note the "W"), graduated to the nearest 10 degrees! ????
