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mbreitba writes "Sam Barros is at it again, Some may know him for his Railgun research, and some may know him for his homemade cannons. But now he's found a use for all those old CD's you don't need anymore. Personally, I couldn't think of a better use for them."
52x isn't the max its 172x!
I don't care if the cd could come out of my burner fly across the room and explode into a billion pieces, I wanna 172x burner!
seriously though, why do they only try to spin the cd faster. why not spin the laser in the opposite direction the cd is spinning in?
bite my glorious golden ass.
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Oops, if anybody visited the site and it was all blank, sorry, that was me after I removed his content! I'll put it right back.
I love reading all the different ways people threaten in their copyright notices.
But wasn't a better version of this concept posted here like last year? A guy put the CD in a real high-speed, high-torque moter (not a dremel) and watched it shatter on the spindle.
This guy is just spinning them fast on a dremel tool and watching them shatter when they hit the ceiling, not quite as impressive!
Whoopie, another story for Power Labs. What's their slogan again ? "We know just enough science to wreck something, then we call it an experiment."
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
Dang! Where are all those AOL CDs when I actually WANT them?
Actually it probably makes sense considering he also has a "Chemlabs" page he was probably stoned at the time.
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'nuff said.
-Shane
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Guess I should call Big Broth^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Ashcroft at T.I.P.S. to let them know that AOL has apparently been engaging in some very suspect "terrorist-like" activity, filling my mailbox with potentially dangerous explosives for years.
Just don't remove the content and you'll be OK.
You'll shoot your eye out!
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. - Cmdr. Susan Ivanova
Last time this happened his site was slashdotted and consquently due to bandwith caps wasnt up till 3 weeks later. Wait till he finds that he has been put on the front page again. Better start looking behind our back's for some guy with a dremel and a couple of AOL cd's.
I'm a geek deal wit it
I keep having these dreams about things exploding. Tonight it was my microwave. I filled it with AOL CD's, set it to 'Aggressive Defrost', and sat down with a beer. The explosion took off the roof of my house and sent it into space. This dream gave me another great idea I can't wait to try: sending cargo into space by blowing up AOL CDs.
Wednesday, 7pm.
It did not work. The neighbour wants back his microwave, and my son is asking me where his music collection went to. Well, that's one positive angle, anyhow.
Thursday, 5am.
That dream again. My subconscious is trying to tell me something. Maybe I was using the wrong brand of microwave...
Friday, 8pm.
I think I've cracked it. Instead of just one microwave, you have to imagine a Beowulf cluster of the things...
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Look at the counter on the guy's page : it has only 4 digits. How much do you bet it already rolled over a hundred times ?
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I can just picture the guy in trance mumbling "no, no, I'm not slashdotted, my server isn't smoking, it can't be, I only have 4000 hits so far
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
I've always wanted to get the camera gear to create a superhero parody -- AOL CD Guy -- who would be sort of a cross between Gambit, the Punnisher, and other superheroes. His weapon of choice would be an endless supply of AOL CDs, which he'd fling or fire, haven't decided which, at his foes. The big issue I had was if said guy was going to be a villain or not...I really should finish the script for that project.
Marxism is the opiate of dumbasses
Hang one from the ceiling with a string near a window. It will reflect the sun in to a fairly bright spot somewhere on the floor or wall, give it a little spin. Your cat will chase it as if it's some kind of small rodent but of course never be able to catch it. This may work with exceptionally stupid dogs too. Laser pointers work just as well but require more user interaction.
0000000 0000 ba01 0021 0001 8001 5d16 0000 bb01
...more of the same
0000020 0c00 1680 055d ffe1 e0e0 c02e 20c0 0000
0000040 be01 dc07 ff0f ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
0000060 ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
*
0004000 0000 ba01 0021 0a01 8031 5d16 0000 e001
0004020 f307 2e60 0031 9601 1107 0100 917e 0000
0004040 b301 0014 c4f0 ffff b8e0 0000 b801 0880
0004060 4000 0000 0001 0f00 f8ff 0000 0101 f96b
0004100 19ee 4cc7 5b59 835a f211 55fe 3761 f1f4
0004120 5c46 bd6b 9624 0f52 6aed 4c33 6ecd d3fa
0004140 4ad5 78f5 93b2 72db 5375 c5c0 e386 3f6b
0004160 9225 8e50 ef2c 8677 86f9 7fa4 71b5 2357
0004200 9c55 19ac 9fb3 5ddc 1878 cc1c dc3a 8f37
0004220 0df2 bb48 8d4e b6cc 114a efd9 03a0 ca1d
0004240 4ae8 1003 ef91 59bf d78e 0911 d2e4 9190
0004260 608b 6caf 2903 721f 4b90 232f 9d6f 5277
0004300 1143 a8c7 ce5d 8c80 f4da 9824 db82 3ff4
0004320 15b1 56d2 7f64 eb83 bc9c d007 84aa f912
0004340 38c3 b97e f6d1 4fdb edef 2fb9 faac 90d0
0004360 ae25 4b5f 8f14 bff1 e970 f751 dfb9 ad0e
0004400 fbb8 b2ed e179 ea84 56d2 5004 155c 8d78
no problem my scanner does 65,536 dpi interpolated!
bite my glorious golden ass.
I did it more than one year ago with a friend of mine, we actually managed to put the disc on the floor spinning at 15K RPM and making it run across the office at high speed for 50+ meters.
:)
:))
We used a pencil to push the disc away from the dremel, if we had to force it for more than a fraction of seconds, the pencil would smoke
At the highest speed the disc exploded (well... it was already damaged, we almost knew it would) and some SMALL piece is still stuck in the roof...
Don't do this at home!
(do it at the office
Hrm; better yet, convert it to vinyl, then scan the vinyl!
Now I know what to do with that new metallica cd. *shudders* damn that saint anger
Actually, that should be "pedant of the year"
Do I win it now?...
I lay awake last night wondering where the sun had gone, then it dawned on me.
If I reemed out the hole that wide, there would be no CD left
(And I like how the "DO" is capitalized instead of the "not")
Maybe he was imagining R. Lee Ermey saying it...
DO not attempt to replicate any of the experiments below, maggot! YOU WILL not live another day if you do, do you understand me? I CAN'T HEAR YOU!
http://xkcd.com/386/
First the shocking Xbox controller, now the exploding CD, what's next?
Possibly how to connect a used desktop 300W power supply to your family jewels to obtain that much sought after "Ryan Seacrest" hairdo?
Do the 1045-Hours-Free CDs do more damage than the older 720-Hours-Free CDs?
...
....because, you know, it might be time for an upgrade.
"Lawyers are for sucks."
- Doug McKenzie
At least the dumb ass has enough sense in his head to close his laptop.