Awesome Spinning

If you spin a CD, DVD, or Blu-ray disc fast enough, it will eventually shatter and send shrapnel flying. Laserdiscs were made similarly, only bigger, so they also catastrophically fail at high speeds. The Slow Mo Guys pointed their high-speed camera at the carnage to give us a detailed look at how the discs come apart.

The latest stunt from Nitro Circus’ Life Size Toys is a real doozy. The team built an 8-foot-tall replica of a Duncan butterfly yo-yo. Then, they strapped a pair of daredevils to its sides and lowered it from a 100-foot crane to make it spin. The dizzying ride would test even the most iron of stomachs.