# CSI Ruined!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/csi-ruined/96155>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 30, 2001, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/csi-ruined/96155 "2001-11-30T17:29:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![evilyam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f475e1/32.png) [@evilyam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilyam)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/csi-ruined/96155/1 "2001-11-30T17:29:44Z")

</div>

Grisholm said that terminal velocity was 9.8 meters per second squared! Why? WHY?!!!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/csi-ruined/96155/2 "2001-11-30T18:54:33Z")

</div>

Are you sure he was talking about terminal velocity? I haven’t watched that show in a while, but it seems like with as much as they seem to get right they wouldn’t blow something so easy.

–Cliffy

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/csi-ruined/96155/3 "2001-11-30T18:57:33Z")

</div>

Hey, lookit that – 500 posts!

–Cliffy

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/csi-ruined/96155/4 "2001-11-30T20:17:43Z")

</div>

I love this place. Watching him say that last night, the first thing I thought was, “Damn, the Boards are gonna roast him for that.”

Guess “terminal velocity” sounded cooler than “gravitational acceleration”.

On another note, howdja like them working in that whole rebirthing therapy thing? Looks like they’re going for the whole “Ripped from the headlines” angle that Law & Order does.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/csi-ruined/96155/5 "2001-11-30T22:35:08Z")

</div>

> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by evilyam \*  
> Grisholm said that terminal velocity was 9.8 meters per second squared! Why? WHY?!!!

I cringed at the same thing… I was **so** disappointed that they made this mistake.