One may have wondered how well a normal CD ROM can hold up to extreme situations. Often it may be a question as to whether or not it would be a good idea to, say, put a CD in the microwave, or take in the shower. While common sense answers most of these questions, it is always a good idea to find out for sure by running scientific experiments. This series of experiments was carried out to put an end to the uncertainty concerning the durability of CD ROM's.

The test subjects consisted of a small collection of CD ROM's.  Half were randomly chosen to be control CD's (it is a coincidence that all of the experimental CD's were Microsoft Internet Explorer CD ROM's).  No placebo CD's were needed as CD's Are not alive, thus do not exhibit the placebo effect (although this has not yet been tested).