CD Eating Fungus?

From: Brian Chase <bdc_at_world.std.com>
Date: Wed Jun 20 11:25:43 2001

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Mike Ford wrote:
> >At 07:43 PM 6/19/01 -0700, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:

> >>The original post that started this thread spoke of TRANSPARENT spots
> >>where the aluminium was "gone". Reduces the overall credibility of the
> >>story.
> >
> >I suspect the aluminium went from reflective to transparent,
> >so they said it was "gone".
>
> Oh my goodness, we have invented transparent aluminum!

Well... Is it possible that the fungus would be eating through some sort
of adhesive or polymer? And then produce some kind of waste that would
react with metalic aluminum to form an aluminum salt that's at least
"clearish"?

It seems like a whole lot of things would have to come together for this
to even work. I can imagine the aluminum layer wearing off of CD-R/CD-RW
media because it sits in a layer right on the top of the plastic disk.
With pressed commercial CDs, I think the metalic layer is actually
sandwiched between two pieces of plastic. In that situation, it'd be a
lot more difficult to believe that clear patches are showing up.

-brian.
Received on Wed Jun 20 2001 - 11:25:43 BST