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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5ugh.. mythbusters did this like 2 years ago.
- Axios, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That was a great video.
- gatorsrule21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0that was awesome! loved the skateboard jump
- hater2win, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0good digg. It's amazing to see how fast that cd is spinning.
- TRUEPATRIOT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0its cool how it jumped up of the skateboard 3 times
- MrScruff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This happened to my copy of Theme Park World, massive bang inside the drive, bit of CD were stuck in the plastic :O
- toasterwaffle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"STOP DIGGING THIS Fing Moron's Vid/Digg. Everyone knows its a rip-off of the Mythbuster TV Show. I guess next this moron is going post a vid of himself in a high-powered washer machine. Actually, If he dies, I'll digg that."
But the site is worth taking a look at. - skeeto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"STOP DIGGING THIS Fing Moron's Vid/Digg. Everyone knows its a rip-off of the Mythbuster TV Show. I guess next this moron is going post a vid of himself in a high-powered washer machine. Actually, If he dies, I'll digg that."
Most. *****. digg. comment. ever. Get up on the wrong side of the bed today? damn digg nazi's like this are the ones that suck the fun out of this site. - MikeCampo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"This is so old I can't even believe it. I saw this online way before Mythbusters even had their first show. OMG, guess some people will throw just about anything up on digg."
Well guys you better stop digging this because sphinxer saw this years ago on the net. We don't want to make him angry... - gahal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I had a CD explode in a drive before.
I was going to rip it to some mp3s' for a friend of mine. He neglected to tell me that the CD had a crack in it near the middle. So the drive starts to spin up the disk, guessing it got to about 40x, and BAMM.
Totally killed the drive. The largest piece of the disk that was left was about as big as a bottle cap, and when I took the drive apart and shook it... well most of what came out were sand sized pieces of the CD.
The thing pretty much hit the sides of the drive and turned to dust. - Axios, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"ok so lets say this guy did it 1st. Then it would make it like 2+ years old. Why is it on the Digg home page??"
Not everyone has seen this before, as is clear by the number of diggs. - WonkoTheSane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This happened inside my Friends DVD drive... it must have been a faulty CD.
I did read somewhere that CD/DVD drives could not get much faster because the CD/DVD were already spinning close to their max speed before the explode. - Thorin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That video's brilliant. Especially liked the one he caught in jar that just carried on spinning!
- Tenn_Bob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was a jet engine mechanic on F-15s and F-16s - Pratt and Whitney would test the fan disks in a similar fashion. In order to find the internal cracks that wouldn't show up on the eddy current systems, they had a pit with a high speed electric motor in the bottom. They'd bolt the fan disk to it, cold soak it in liquid nitrogen for 24 hours, drain the pit, and then take the disk up to something like 20,000 - 30,000 RPM. If the disk was good, nothing would happen. If the disk was bad it would have catastrophic failure.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great, now I'm freaked out, and I'm afraid to run at anything greater than 4x...
I need carbon nanotube plastics! - adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I had this happen to a XP CD when I was setting up a new system on a friends computer. I just looked at my friend, held the shattered pieces in my hand and said. "Your computer is trying to tell you something"
- nox327, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I had a CD explode once in my Cd-drive. When it exploded, I almost got a fricken heart attack, that's how loud it was. When I opened it up, it was shattered in a thousand pieces. Since I had a warranty for my PC, I took it to circuit city where I had the warranty from and told them what happened. 2 weeks later I picked it up and i wanted to test out the new CD drive that they "installed" After trying a couple of times to start my FIFA game, I took it out to see what the problem was, and i saw that it had a deep scratch that went all around the Cd. As it turned out they send me back the same fricken drive, with all the shattered pieces inside. That what you get if you trust those bastards at Circuit City.
- cheeseylaalaa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm Not Even joking you, This happened To me! I have no idea why but my CD drive started to speed up and i could hear it getting louader and louader and wouldn't stop. 3 minutes later, pieces flew out of the front of the drive and i had to spend the next hour taking it apart and getting all the tiny fragments of roller coaster tycoon out... Anyway, great digg!
- DigitalKNK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cool and funny vid, stupid guy for doing it without any real protection, thing could have seriously cut something off or killed himself.
- 5had0w, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I know what to do with my costers now.
- mopo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hmm was this on mythbusters? :P
cool anyway, the guy has no protective gear on
- mopo - BiGdUsTy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I had a CD come apart in a cheap oem 52x drive one time.
Sounded like a shoot gun going off and destroyed the drive.
I opened it up to find chunks of CD every where in side. - skeeto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol. hey i saw this 8 years ago. it's old news to me so therefore it's old news to everyone else. arrrrrrg
- Web_Weasel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's cool when things explode.
- dandiemer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what acctually happens is that a rip in our dimension is opened and creatures from hell spawn out of the drive.
- Orwell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i have done this with my friends years ago, it is very entertaining. The most entertaining is when it breaks upon contact with the ground. we were doing it outside my friends house to see how far it would go... Well we had 2 guys by the dremel and two guys about 50 yards away. The cd hit the ground, broke on contact, and within seconds a fragment hit my friends leg about 50 yards away.
- sparquay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0haha, what guys do in dorm rooms. love it.
- sarasweet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Loved the how it kept rolling or spinning more than the explosions!
- Numchuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yeah myth buster did it ..and it is ***** :P
- ____, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Did this myself when I first got a Dremel before ever hearing about it, using a mandrel fashioned from a jewel case's center, with a cracked CD. There are still burn marks on the walls and shards stuck in the ceiling. I don't have the environment or the balls (which are still intact) to try this again.
- Logal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0remember when CD's were expensive? and you wouldn't even think about doing that ***** to one of your precious 10-packs.
- h4lofourt33n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"ugh.. mythbusters did this like 2 years ago." Yep, I saw it too.
- evil-doer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0myth............ plausible
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0...real scientific that guy.
I'd be surprised if the dremel tool was running at 50% of rated capacity (that "whined in a very menacing manner" is the sound of your dremel's bearings experiencing "above normal usage"). Oh, sure he can calculate the number of joules the a disk spinning at 35,000rpm has; I just pray to god that I never have to ride, live in or use anything this guy designs or builds.
I have a very sneaking suspicion that spindle loads on the inner mounting surface have a lot to do with disk failure; one very interesting thing to take away from his fooling around was the picture of a failed disk with a *single* crack on the inner most portion of the disk... once the crack hits the outer detent, the slope of the crack changes drastically and there are periodic (harmonic) bifurcation points that create all of the smaller shards. It would be extremely interesting to see this failure documented with a high-speed camera.... maybe could uncover something that could be used in the ordnance/weapons/defense industry... high density spinning plastic mortars... humm. - roasted_almonds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0just to add my two cents in...i digg the HELLLLL out of this....that video of it was bitchin
- messiah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think my experience was much better than this. I had a cd explode in a drive of one of my clients. I was installing their Printer and all of a sudden a loud BANG, the front of the drive tray blew off and a few shards of the cd hit me in the leg (no damage though). The cd was in like a million bits, but i opened the drive up, blew the bits out with an air compressor and with a bit of glue on the front of the tray it works like new. Scary experience though. Had the tower been at eye level it could have done some real damage.
- thundercleese, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Actually this was on Mythbusters a couple of years ago.
- abbtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ya mythbusters did it, but the video was still cool!
- Corny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Mythbusters...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i saw this on mythbusters even though i don't even know what that is. i think i saw it sometime before cds were invented.
- ender78, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Mythbusters did it well but this guy shows the true force of the CD. I love how it hits the door more than once after rolling along the floor.
- mario_24789, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0elgringo, if you die ill digg anything
- oldgeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's old, But it gives you something to do with those AOL disks.
- beatsy_dave, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1did anyone mention mythbusters yet? ;)
- Sphinxer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This is so old I can't even believe it. I saw this online way before Mythbusters even had their first show. OMG, guess some people will throw just about anything up on digg.
- cal0001, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0it was cooler on mythbusters
- Scuba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0So what if it was on Mythbusters, it's an old like that's been on PowerLabs for ages.
- albel65, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0only 2 times...
- ajb2015, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Trolls - go back to slashdot.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Anyone want the torrent link for mythbusters. Oh I forgot, I think the original poster forgot to check here: 64.81.49.216
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