CD shatter if you spin it fast enough

[Proxy]

Originally posted by Big D
Dang, I'd love to own a car that could do thirty-five <i>thousand</i> RPM. Most cars, even modern sports cars, will red-line at 6,000 or so.

I didn't wanna say anything. but i was thinkin "what kind of car does he drive"
and modern sports cars are at about 7 or 8k

and yes, that video was very cool

[Erdrick Holmes]

Well a 52x CD rom drive spins at about 40,000 RPMs so I can see why they would explode after awhile (they can only stand about 32,000 before exploding.)

This is quite possibly one of the best discussions I had ever made.



This is a stack of CDs in my room I found

5 AOL CDs
3 CDs I attempted to burn but I screwed them up
A Sprint Earthlink CD
Disc 1 D (PSX game)
Hardcore 4X4 (Old PSX disc that no longer works)
A few old dos games
And 2 mix CDs that go so horriby scratched

This weekend my friends and I are going to my friend nathens garage and building a device called "AOL's death sentence". Its a table with a hole cut in the middle with a rotozimmer spinning at 180,000 RPMs. We'll stick the zimmer through the hole on the table and cover the zimmer with glass to encase the flying CD shrapnel. We also might put some pumkins and stuff in the glas to see the damage thousands of shrapnel shards do to something that sorta emulates a human skull. Ill take pictures.

[Big D]

You might wanna wear safety goggles, just in case the glass doesn't withstand the impacts and pressure...

"Safety first" is a good rule to remember when you're being wantonly reckless and destructive

[Peegee]

hehe "wanton"

pictures are a must. I demand them. I have a huge stack of cds, but I lack the resources to perform such a fun endeavour.

[Red Wizard]

Originally posted by Bert
Well if you want to dispose of CDs it may help.

Microwaves are far better at disposing of CDs. *nod*

Anywho, I'd beware ninjas who throw AOL CDs at 32,000 rpm... man, that's make a great low-tech frag-thingy. Talk about real ultimate power.

[The Man]

especially if they're linkin park CDs with pre-sharpened edges to make for more efficient wrist-slashings. it's probably the best use for linkin park CDs, too.

[Red Wizard]

I've heard they also make for a decent scale-mail for use against dull kitchen knives.

[crono_logical]

Originally posted by Red Wizard
Microwaves are far better at disposing of CDs. *nod*

But who wants to dispose of their microwave at the same time?

[Red Wizard]

People who would be sent to jail if things on the CDs in question weren't permanently erased.

[The Man]

I've broken CDs in half with my bare hands before; it's not exactly that hard to erase them.

[Red Wizard]

Nah, the FBI can put a shattered CD back together and still get data from it. Microwaving the disc then scuffing the bloody hell out of it is the best way to go.

[The Man]

You can easily just scrape everything off with a pair of scissors then. I've done it before with CD-Rs that didn't burn correctly.

How the hell can someone put a shattered CD back together? The data layer's already falling off of the darn thing.

[Red Wizard]

If they think you've got something that can harm the government (like some encryption algorithms, for example), they're going to do everything they can to prove that you had it and were planning to harm the government with them.

That's as far off topic as I'm going to go, though. My first day back and I'm already hijacking topics. Meh.