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Originally Posted by Elgin Clock
Did anyone see the episode of mythbusters where they tried in vain to spin a cd to it's max rotational speed and shatter it??
It didn't happen in any CD drives that they looked at until they hooked up the CD directly to a Dremel like roto tool.. High rpm's shattered it.
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Yup - saw that. Their conclusion was that the disk shattered because of the flexing it did - not because of any scratches.
That high-speed video they had replaying the waves the CD made before it broke was awsome!