This viral video shows what happens when a CD shatters in 170,600fps slow motion
A VIDEO of a CD shattering at a staggering 170,600 frames per second has today taken the internet by storm.
The CD breaks after it is spun at 23,000 rotations-per-minute
The footage – which has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times – shows the CD gradually splinter and shatter into small fragments.
The video file of the CD's final moments would take up almost 96GBs – which would take almost 98,304 CDs to store
The CD breaks after it is spun at 23,000 rotations-per-minute using a vacuum cleaner motor. The viral video was shot at 170,600 frames per second.
At this frame-rate, just four seconds of the slow motion video would take almost EIGHT HOURS to playback in real-time.
And with so many frames, the video file of the CD's final moments would take up almost 96GBs – which would take almost 98,304 CDs to store.
Gavin Free and Daniel Gruchy, better known as The Slow Mo Guys, created the popular viral video.
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Back in January, the pair filmed the workings of the mirror and shutter mechanism in a DSLR camera at 10,000fps.
The video has been viewed more than three million times.
More than five million people are subscribed to the Slow Mo Guys on Youtube – drawing in more than 510,011,400 views.
The CD breaks after it is spun at 23,000 rotations-per-minute