CDs and DVDs Not So Immortal After All

Medicine, Science & Technology Forum

Everything in this world is MORTAL

CDz nutz!

*chortle, chortle, chuckle*

There's another form of deterioration I've heard about over the years related to the electromagnetic field of the Earth, the same thing that has an impact on the longevity of magneticly recorded tape media. Even though CD's are not magnetically recorded, the aluminum layer indeed has magnetic properties that are responsive to the environmental forces and over time could be subject to erasure from the fluctuating fields. Again we're talking decades though. The only forms of recordable, optical media that should be impervious to both effects are organic CDR's which use a different means to retain data and double-sided DVD's which have a thick, double-sided optical surface like the read surface of a CD.

That is why it is very bad to put a CD in a microwave.

Do it... nothing happens.... I swear....

(This is when now you take a Michael Jackson cd and put it in the microwave )

You are awesome Chodder.

I would like to put an MS Windows 98 (First edition, mind you) CD in there.

M.

Or one of those damn AOL CD's!!!!

Yeah, the ones that come free with stuff.

M.

I would put entire MS Windows 98 source code hard drive in Microwave.

Way to go Sarvesh!!!

M.

Or just throw the microwave through the Microsoft headquarters window with the burnt MS Windows 98 source code hard drive still in the Microwave

or go into the Microsoft Headquarters and cook poop in the microwave

That is just nasty.

M.

Or just use the ol' poop in a flaming paper bag trick

I think we are diverting from the main topic. Why don't we carry MS flaming in the flamers ward? I have a thread there specifically for Microsoft.

M.

I saw an episode of the Screensavers (techtv) where they put a CD in a microwave. It was pretty cool. The sparks went in kind of an outward circular pattern, like the way the skyscraper glass blew up when the helicopter hit it in the first Matrix.

hhhmmmmmmm....... might try that sometime. Where's my free trial of AOL?
Hehe.