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The Pax Era aims to be the Keurig of vaporizers

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Out of all the ways to ingest THC, oil concentrates are far and away the messiest, stickiest and most irritating method. Unlike shatter, crumble or even wax, all of which maintain their shape and texture to some degree, oils have a knack for getting...

Watch a CD Shatter at 170,000fps

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I’ve been watching this CD shatter for like five minutes straight. This is another brilliant piece of work from the Slow Mo Guys. They like to show what happens when you watch stuff in super slow motion – stuff your eyes don’t see in real time. Their latest video shows a CD being spun up to 23,000 RPM and shattering. It is hypnotizing when played in the GIF below:

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When you spin a CD at such speeds, the centrifugal forces and wobble are just too great, and it fails catastrophically, It shatters in the blink of an eye. Your eye doesn’t even know what just happened. However, if you record it with a Phantom V2511 high speed camera, you can see everything. And it is amazing.

The GIF shows the disc exploding at 28,500 fps, but the video shows off some 170,000 fps footage. I’m still mesmerized by this.

[via Gizmodo via OhGizmo!]