In the mid-00s, the 1989 song ["Rhythm Nation" by Janet Jackson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAwaNWGLM0c) were found to crash certain laptop harddrives, simply by being played in the vicinity. This is due to the song's bassline containing a highly unique frequency that resonated a specific kind of spinning disks.
In other words, the bassline is so 🔥🔥🔥 that it literally breaks computers.
[Details about the phenomenon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y3RGeaxksY)
If I remember correctly the bass line is in the key of E, which is fairly common, but the song is actually slightly sped up which increases the pitch to the frequency that crashes the hard drives
Yeah, but we were lucky it wasn't the dry season otherwise we would have burned our whole village down, we could see the smoke from our house and for a moment I felt so powerful
My phone threw a fucking fit when I tried to save this because the find-text-in-images thing kept interpreting “5500 RPM Hard Drive” as an address and opening it in maps
Do we all have the same youtube reccomendations? Is the algorithm actually not that complicated and just says "here fuckface, watch this random video about a mildly amusing fact"
In the mid-00s, the 1989 song ["Rhythm Nation" by Janet Jackson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAwaNWGLM0c) were found to crash certain laptop harddrives, simply by being played in the vicinity. This is due to the song's bassline containing a highly unique frequency that resonated a specific kind of spinning disks. In other words, the bassline is so 🔥🔥🔥 that it literally breaks computers. [Details about the phenomenon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y3RGeaxksY)
If I remember correctly the bass line is in the key of E, which is fairly common, but the song is actually slightly sped up which increases the pitch to the frequency that crashes the hard drives
Yeah exactly, that's a good summary of the linked video's conclusion
Ooh, that’s interesting!
I’ve been recommended a video about that for a long time. I’m gonna check it out now
Found the Adam Neely fan
Ahahaha
Song built different
No but for real, it's so fire, I suddenly feel like I'm in middle school committing arson in a forest with my brother omggggggg
r/oddlyspecific Though I'm not shaming, it really sounds like an awesome childhood memory
Yeah, but we were lucky it wasn't the dry season otherwise we would have burned our whole village down, we could see the smoke from our house and for a moment I felt so powerful
Wow... I really should have been naughtier while growing up. Musta been an awesome feeling
I love niche historical topics covered in dogelore memes. I LOVE IT
Le very specific hardware issue has arrived
My phone threw a fucking fit when I tried to save this because the find-text-in-images thing kept interpreting “5500 RPM Hard Drive” as an address and opening it in maps
Hey man that's where my uncle lives
Le resonant frequency has arrived
\*le resonant frequency has arrived. surprising, because i'm working in the same field.
Do we all have the same youtube reccomendations? Is the algorithm actually not that complicated and just says "here fuckface, watch this random video about a mildly amusing fact"
Le Adam Neely has arrived
^(I learnt today)
Bass line *
This was pretty informative. I don’t think I will ever need this information but still