CD Exploded
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Bluemofia
F=ma
I find it sad, because now I have to look for another copy of it. It's an old game and I'm not sure if stores sell it anymore...
Bluemofia
F=ma
RA2 Yuri's revenge
Bluemofia
F=ma
What are the chances of it happening again? I'm starting to get civ withdrawal.
hbdragon88
haunted by blackness
Hirachi Dinavo
Emperor of the World
I've heard of this several times before, it's not really that funny now.
Perfection
The Great Head.
Well, just be thankful that it didn't destroy the CD drive
Plexus
Architeuthidae puericomedentis
The Mythbusters episode on this rocked.
TrailblazingScot
I was kittenOFchaos
Jawz II said:on a sidenote, have any of you ever tried to break a cd with your hands?
dont! they dont snap in 2 pieces, they goddamn explode in your face into a million pieces!
i did it once, and i was still finding bits of it, 6 months later!
I too did the same thing to see what happens - in every bloke there is a scientist screaming to get let out.
For me too it exploded and I have never done it again.
A dyson soon cleaned up the shrapnel.
MarineCorps
Explosion!
\I was thinking of that when I saw this thread.Chieftess said:
IIRC they went through a lot of effort to get it to explode. The ended up modding a rotor tool to get it to shatter....
Bluemofia
F=ma
So unintentional CD exploding is very rare? And if it happened once, then chances are, that it won't happen again?
Tomoyo
Fate
Wow. This is rather funny. It's bad, of course, but this has got to be the best way to lose a CD. 
Tomoyo said:Wow. This is rather funny. It's bad, of course, but this has got to be the best way to lose a CD.
At least there's one person on these forums as immature as me.
I thought I was the only one who found this funny.Bluemofia said:
I wouldn't worry about it. That disk was what, 7 years old?
CD's that are slowly dehydrated (leaving it open in your car = sunlight, or by a heater in your room, etc) lose their density - like mud turning to stone. Spinning the disc at high speeds causes stress, and without moisture in the disc to allow flexing, the disc snaps.
Yes heat can melt a disc too, they are plastic, but that would mean direct heat from most likely an open flame. I've seen a lighter held to a disc before, and it starts charring it, so it may need something hotter to melt it.
Either way, store your discs properly and you have little to worry about.
EDIT:
to Chieftess for being a fellow 'Mythbuster' fan
Yes heat can melt a disc too, they are plastic, but that would mean direct heat from most likely an open flame. I've seen a lighter held to a disc before, and it starts charring it, so it may need something hotter to melt it.
Either way, store your discs properly and you have little to worry about.
EDIT:
to Chieftess for being a fellow 'Mythbuster' fanummmm........
Extremely normal.
It was the disk, not the drive. If you can still get the drive to play CDs with all those little bits still in there, you're fine.Bluemofia said:
Bluemofia
F=ma
Actually, it was 4 years old, and I thought it was my computer's fault, so yay! Now to play civ.
I've found that CDs shatter nicely when hit with a .45 round.
The Person
Deity +2
I know this is possible, but it's the first time I've heard it happen to somebody else than the Mythbusters (yes, I saw that episode as well).
