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What is the organism that eats the metallic substance on cd's?

Asked by truecomedian (3937points) November 23rd, 2009

I have seen some cd’s that appear to have been eaten, like termite would do only in wood. There are squirmy lines on the bottom of the cd. I didn’t think that stuff was edible and by what?

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andrew's avatar

It’s a scratch, most likely caused by something in the car—the squiggly line is caused by jostling the CD against some scratching object.

sebastian_von_tulu's avatar

I read that as orgasm, it must be bedtime

If it’s not a scratch a picture would definitely help. If you can get one.

cyn's avatar

@sebastian_von_tulu Me too. I was like WTF!?
@truecomedian I think it would be a fungus.

truecomedian's avatar

Odd, someone else has to have seen this, it’s obviously biological. I know this sounds a little horror show, but I tried to take a pic. I was like wtf when I first saw it, because I didn’t think that was possible.

sebastian_von_tulu's avatar

@truecomedian Well I think @cyndihugs is right with the weird-fungus-CD-devourer-thing.

@cyndihugs Maybe you’re just dirty-minded :P

cyn's avatar

@truecomedian you should look at that thread. It has some links. I’m too lazy to post them up myself.
@sebastian_von_tulu that’s probably the reason why I got into this thread. J/K

truecomedian's avatar

Once again I feel that somehow I, missed out on the orgy.

truecomedian's avatar

Yes that’s it. Looks just like that. How wierd. Thank you.

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