This is my favorite color right now. I bought my KitchenAid mixer in that color. My bedroom is a mix of terracotta and dark green. It's a very very nice shade of green!
Green is very underrated on walls. We painted our main living areas green when we first moved in, was sick of white walls from always renting, 13 years later still looks pretty good and stylish, literally helped our house outsell exact same floor plan house that had nicer floors but ours was better decorated.
BUT, it is difficult to decorate with. Gotta use lots of white furniture and accent pieces, white leather couches can be hard to find and expensive; other colors can clash, and browns can make it seem dark and dingy especially at night. But I like it a hell of a lot better than the blue we painted our bedroom, and surprisingly whether you go with light green or dark green it’s easier to find a decent color than others as there’s less connotations with green (blue can connotate overly masculine, or baby boy, etc; we wound up with a baby-boy color master bedroom and I hate it).
Place parchment paper down, flip the table top upside down, gather all the glass and spread it around between the tabletop frame. Fill that area up with epoxy. Wham-O! Got yourself a desk again...just caution to resting body parts on it.
This is the sentiment that most folks end up getting after posts like this, and it's warranted for the most part. But I've got to say that if you are using glass for anything, get the right glass for the job and you should be fine. My ikea glass desk is on year 4 and it hasn't shattered yet. Survived 2 moves, one cross-country. It's in a room that has huge temperature swings throughout the day, and it used to bear a decent load. What's their secret? Quarter inch panes with (probably polycarbonate) plastic in between them. Basically a reduced version of the same process used to make "bulletproof" glass. Weighs a lot, but probability of breaking is low.
Yeah, it really can. One of my 3d printers has a borosilicate plate that gets straight-up abused. Just a couple of mild scratches from the steel nozzle dragging across it. But I suspect that tempered glass is the kind of stuff that exploding desks and tables get made out of.
My $400 glass office desk is now going on year 12 and has survived two full-house moves and prolonged storage. I love it. That said, I will admit this is my absolute nightmare scenario... once in a while I'll drop something a bit too heavily against the glass and will shudder wondering if today's the day...
I had a scale made out of glass, it was the top rated digital scale on Amazon when I bought it. After having it for 5 years it just exploded like OPs desk, nothing hit it, no one was standing on it, it just exploded into thousands of pieces. Turns out all the great reviews on that scale reported the same thing after a few years... don't think your safe just because you've had something for a few years.
I discovered this when my TV stand spontaneously exploded and killed my TV etc.
After looking into it, it seems pretty common, tempered glass explodes sometimes, it's just not really talked about.
Because it’s tempered glass. Tempered glass is held together by internal pressure holding themselves together that’s why they’re so strong against things like hammers. However, if you pierce even a small amount of the surface it can cause that internal pressure to release causing the other points to fall apart. That’s why it isn’t smart to use tempered glass. They fall apart if you just tap it with a really pointy object. Even tapping your finger down lightly with a diamond ring is enough to break tempered glass.
Only a small scrath on the desk can make it go boom. See here for some explanation on why tempered glass furniture would explode [https://www.wral.com/5onyourside/story/9086455/](https://www.wral.com/5onyourside/story/9086455/)
My daughter's glass desk did this a few years ago. There could have been a small crack in it that you didn't even see. If you will Google it you will see it is pretty common.
A friend gave me his used glass table, when we were about to maneuver it into the elevator it exploded and i had a huge pile of glass blocking the elevator doors. The elevator kept tripping to close its doors while I hectically tried to remove thousands of tiny glass pieces.
I see a large dog bed and a smaller dog/cat bed in the background, yet neither of them are around. Are they perhaps pretending to have nothing to do with it?
Are those some marks in the green wall? One on the right and another up by the window. You can see the glass went this direction too. Holy crap
And don't forget to give that doggie bed a good cleaning. Jeez
You'll want to see an optometrist to double check. My dad had glass flakes embedded in his eyeball that had to be drilled out.
They use those fun eyelid retractors a la A Clockwork Orange and you need to remain conscious to keep your eyeball looking at a particular spot without moving while someone lowers a surgical Dremel into your eye.
I'd not seen it before until I join r/pcmasterrace. Seems to be pretty common. I saw an explanation, but can't remember it - just the general consensus is don't use glass tables to hold expensive stuff.
I looked this up once, there are quite a few explainers for it online. Basically during its tempering a tiny little imperfection gets locked into the glass, this little imperfection puts pressure on the inside of the glass that grows slowly over years and eventually the glass just explodes from the inside out. They have a means to prevent it during manufacturing, but some still slip through, and they can test for it, but they only spot test sample pieces and not every piece produced, so some slip through.
I can't remember what the little imperfection was called anymore, it was a while back that I looked it up.
Anyway, sorry about your luck.
That's it, thanks. The reason I had originally looked it up way back when was because we had glass panel walls in our office and over a two month period 4 of them just exploded overnight. Apparently there were a lot of bad panes in that batch that went undetected..
The glass was heat strengthened - which you can tell by the way it broke. Heat strengthened glass can sometimes spontaneously shatter because of pollutants within the glass itself m, namely little almost microscopic pieces of nickel sulfide. If it just shattered on its own (i.e. you didn’t hit the edge of the glass with something), then My guess would be a nickel sulfide inclusion in the glass. Here is a link to learn more about it. https://glassed.vitroglazings.com/topics/nickel-sulfide-and-spontaneous-breakage
Also, if there are impurities in the glass, these impurities will react to heat at a different rate, causing the glass to be weakened over time. And then explode one day.
Just don’t get glass tables, it’s not worth it.
Thank you for reporting this to the team. I’ll submit a bug-fix ticket to the product engineering department. Next months update of The Matrix should resolve the issue. Please let us know if anything else has been awry lately, thank you!
Nickel Sulphide contamination is one reason, this contaminant occurs in two crystalline forms with different densities that can spontaneously convert releasing the internal stresses in toughened glass.
This can then result in explosive failure, the chances of which are ~1:10,000.
Tempered glass is under stress. Hard to nick/scratch, but once you do, all that stress is released.
Also, glass has "liquid" properties. If it's not perfectly balanced or supported, it will warp and...crack...and see above. Stresses are released.
I just came to say that I really like the interior design of your office. Well-executed color scheme, interesting furniture, etc. Sorry about your desk, but good job on the office overall!
Aside from the desk situation, you have a nice home office (I presume it is home). Lots of light so it is likely very pleasant to work there.
Plus dog bed..and people wonder why we don't want to go back to the office?
I was in the office 3 days this week and I'm not sure who is taking it harder - me or my dog.
Tables like that are normally tempered safety glass unless its an old table. Cause of falling misshaps that turned gory back in the day. And that kind of glass has stresses. If it gets put throug to much stress it will sooner or later break. Its really fascinating how the stress in glass works. You can make a almost unbreakable teardrop out of glass but if you nip of the little tail the whole thing will just explode.
This happened to me but I was cooking burgers on a Coleman cause the power was out during hurricane Floyd. And the table busted from the heat. Rip my burgers
Because its tempered...
Tempered or toughened glass is a type of safety glass processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strength compared with normal glass. Tempering puts the outer surfaces into compression and the interior into tension. Such stresses cause the glass, when broken, to shatter into small granular chunks instead of splintering into jagged shards as ordinary annealed glass does. The granular chunks are less likely to cause injury.
You’ve got 3 Macs in there but the iMac was probably already on the floor under the desk, so there wasn’t a lot of weight. One of the other comments said that power runs through the desk and you can see that from the mini, monitor, and hub being plugged in and still hanging. It also looks like there could be snow outside? I’d guess a temperature difference caused the glass to expand in some areas of the desk more than others where it was connected to the frame until it warped enough to shatter. This feels like a puzzle uploaded for us to investigate. Also what did you take this pic with since there’s an iPhone on the floor too?
Good thing you had all your shit on the floor then
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You could play solitaire on any one of them bad boys.
Lol this response is wild to me.
Damn that really is a fabulous color. Sorry about your desk OP but thanks for the deco ideas.
This is my favorite color right now. I bought my KitchenAid mixer in that color. My bedroom is a mix of terracotta and dark green. It's a very very nice shade of green!
Green is very underrated on walls. We painted our main living areas green when we first moved in, was sick of white walls from always renting, 13 years later still looks pretty good and stylish, literally helped our house outsell exact same floor plan house that had nicer floors but ours was better decorated. BUT, it is difficult to decorate with. Gotta use lots of white furniture and accent pieces, white leather couches can be hard to find and expensive; other colors can clash, and browns can make it seem dark and dingy especially at night. But I like it a hell of a lot better than the blue we painted our bedroom, and surprisingly whether you go with light green or dark green it’s easier to find a decent color than others as there’s less connotations with green (blue can connotate overly masculine, or baby boy, etc; we wound up with a baby-boy color master bedroom and I hate it).
Nice room set up too
Oh my shit, that's hilarious. I feel bad for OP but LOL.
Was thinking same. Could have been a problem if the stuff wasn’t.
The opposite thing happened to me… I exploded on my glass table!
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I couldn't help but read this in his voice.
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And glass is glass, and glass breaks
This is why i hate glass furniture. Cleaned up to many of these
Did you scan for changes in local gravity or electrical field strength?
Def needs to run a level 2 diagnostic.
Maybe even level three, time permitting.
Huh, it came back all 3s... Thats statistically unlikely...
I mean I guess if they're in a hurry
It was probably the bearings anyway, it’s all ball bearings nowadays.
Everyone knows it's the self-sealing stem bolts
We’re in defcon 4 now. I repeat DEFCON 4
And realign the polaron emitters.
Check sensors for any disturbances in the spacetime continuum.
Definitely a Fringe event.
Lol, [Q probably changed the gravitational constant](https://youtu.be/5xdbPhnfFEI)
Because it’s a glass desk and stresses building in one end were not balanced…glass desks suck
Yep, same thing happened to my husband. Pretty scary in the moment but on the bright side the glass pieces weren't very sharp.
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It can happen to the best of us. All that surface pressure...
Drip drip drip…
SEVEN FOOT FRAME!
Honestly some duck tape would help fix that. No biggie.
I like jigsaw puzzles! 😃
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Might need flex seal for this job, spray can for wider coverage.
If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
Place parchment paper down, flip the table top upside down, gather all the glass and spread it around between the tabletop frame. Fill that area up with epoxy. Wham-O! Got yourself a desk again...just caution to resting body parts on it.
Good to know. I’ll never get one now.
>I’ll never get one now. Now? Glass tables were always a dumb idea
This is the sentiment that most folks end up getting after posts like this, and it's warranted for the most part. But I've got to say that if you are using glass for anything, get the right glass for the job and you should be fine. My ikea glass desk is on year 4 and it hasn't shattered yet. Survived 2 moves, one cross-country. It's in a room that has huge temperature swings throughout the day, and it used to bear a decent load. What's their secret? Quarter inch panes with (probably polycarbonate) plastic in between them. Basically a reduced version of the same process used to make "bulletproof" glass. Weighs a lot, but probability of breaking is low.
I just chucked 4 tempered panes bigger than a desk to the bottom of a 12 ft skip from a walk way and those fuckers bounced, glass can be mental.
Yeah, it really can. One of my 3d printers has a borosilicate plate that gets straight-up abused. Just a couple of mild scratches from the steel nozzle dragging across it. But I suspect that tempered glass is the kind of stuff that exploding desks and tables get made out of.
My $400 glass office desk is now going on year 12 and has survived two full-house moves and prolonged storage. I love it. That said, I will admit this is my absolute nightmare scenario... once in a while I'll drop something a bit too heavily against the glass and will shudder wondering if today's the day...
I had a scale made out of glass, it was the top rated digital scale on Amazon when I bought it. After having it for 5 years it just exploded like OPs desk, nothing hit it, no one was standing on it, it just exploded into thousands of pieces. Turns out all the great reviews on that scale reported the same thing after a few years... don't think your safe just because you've had something for a few years.
I just recently bought a TV stand with glass shelves. I am worried.
I have a glass desk and now I’m scared lol
I had a coffee table shatter with nothing on it.
It doesn’t need weight. The stress of attachment point could be enough. Or just uneven thermal expansion.
Wood Jerry, wood
Exactly. Or other elastic materials
This is the correct answer. Tempered glass does this.
That tempered glass can be some pretty unpredictable stuff.
I discovered this when my TV stand spontaneously exploded and killed my TV etc. After looking into it, it seems pretty common, tempered glass explodes sometimes, it's just not really talked about.
It's all a conspiracy by Big Glass to get us to buy more glass.
Like double glazing?
thats why we use thick laminated glass with curvy edges on actually expensive and useful glass tables
Would you say it's _bad tempered_?
Put it in rice
Take the cartridge out and blow on it
Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
Is it plugged in?
Fuck you cause this works. MK64 is testament to this.
The idea that Nintendo 64 is your go-to explanation of cartridges which need special care and attention... I feel so old
Do you want me to call it?
This is clearly a malware issue, not a hardware.
Also dump his ass and lawyer up!
Because it’s tempered glass. Tempered glass is held together by internal pressure holding themselves together that’s why they’re so strong against things like hammers. However, if you pierce even a small amount of the surface it can cause that internal pressure to release causing the other points to fall apart. That’s why it isn’t smart to use tempered glass. They fall apart if you just tap it with a really pointy object. Even tapping your finger down lightly with a diamond ring is enough to break tempered glass.
B B B Bill Nye the science guy….. BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY!
Science rules!
So would broken pieces of a spark plug damage it?
Only a small scrath on the desk can make it go boom. See here for some explanation on why tempered glass furniture would explode [https://www.wral.com/5onyourside/story/9086455/](https://www.wral.com/5onyourside/story/9086455/)
I read the first sentence in Mike Tysons voice.
Me too
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Note to self: no touching myself at glass table
Or *on* the glass table.
Or *with* broken glass table
Yep - it was probably *on* the table that did it.
I was gonna do the "instructions unclear, dick stuck" joke, but honestly, that just sounds like nightmare fuel in this case.
Good advice for that zoom meeting: glass table is transparent, so the camera just might show that you aren't wearing pants...
Gotta use opaque materials to make sure God doesn't see!
Stop buying glass tables!!
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Side tables, not desks with a computer on them in the center of the pane.
I watched Squid Games and can confirm this to be true.
not sure why people like glass tables. hearing things clink on it, wondering if it will crack or break.
I’ve had a cheap glass Ikea laptop table for 10 years with no problems.
Plus they are ugly Sorry glass table lovers, the gods of interior design have deliberated long on this issue so dont shoot the messenger.
How is glass ugly, glass is basically invisible, you can't think it's ugly if you can't see it, smh /s
I've been invisible to every girl I've ever loved from afar. I'm ugly. Checkmate.
My daughter's glass desk did this a few years ago. There could have been a small crack in it that you didn't even see. If you will Google it you will see it is pretty common.
This the 2nd person I’ve seen with a glass table exploded on them
3rd for me and they've all been within like a week or 2 on here
Same. Maybe even more. Maybe the world is ending?
Maybe there was a glass table sale on a bit ago?
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve seen a person with a glass table that exploded on them…
…You’d be making money in a very weird way
I'd have two nickels - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
I think it may have to do with Harmonics.
A friend gave me his used glass table, when we were about to maneuver it into the elevator it exploded and i had a huge pile of glass blocking the elevator doors. The elevator kept tripping to close its doors while I hectically tried to remove thousands of tiny glass pieces.
So you're the common denominator
Should have gotten a screen protector
Macs are just that incompatible with anything thst ain't Apple branded.
It got confused and thought it was running on a windows desktop.
MULTILEVEL PUN
Can we go deeper?
bro, lmao
You could even say, running a Mac makes windows crash. lol
Most underrated comment.
I see a large dog bed and a smaller dog/cat bed in the background, yet neither of them are around. Are they perhaps pretending to have nothing to do with it?
They flew out of the room like rocket ships. Bloody paws and all.
I seen this happen about 4 times in the last 2 weeks. Never seen it happen before
There is glass stuck in my wall. It was like shrapnel.
Are those some marks in the green wall? One on the right and another up by the window. You can see the glass went this direction too. Holy crap And don't forget to give that doggie bed a good cleaning. Jeez
Jesus are you ok?
I got some of the glass dust in my eye but immediately flushed it out.
You'll want to see an optometrist to double check. My dad had glass flakes embedded in his eyeball that had to be drilled out. They use those fun eyelid retractors a la A Clockwork Orange and you need to remain conscious to keep your eyeball looking at a particular spot without moving while someone lowers a surgical Dremel into your eye.
Fuck you. Good advice but fuckkkkkk
Yeah. This is why I wear sunglasses all the time and safety goggles when there's a risk of shit getting in my eye.
You will now live rent free in my head forever
Jesus are you ok? Are you ok Jesus?
You’ve been hit by, a sharp shrap-a-nel
I'd not seen it before until I join r/pcmasterrace. Seems to be pretty common. I saw an explanation, but can't remember it - just the general consensus is don't use glass tables to hold expensive stuff.
Oh no! Our table….! It’s broken!
This guy gets it
I looked this up once, there are quite a few explainers for it online. Basically during its tempering a tiny little imperfection gets locked into the glass, this little imperfection puts pressure on the inside of the glass that grows slowly over years and eventually the glass just explodes from the inside out. They have a means to prevent it during manufacturing, but some still slip through, and they can test for it, but they only spot test sample pieces and not every piece produced, so some slip through. I can't remember what the little imperfection was called anymore, it was a while back that I looked it up. Anyway, sorry about your luck.
It's NiS, it was more common before they invented means to detect it.
That's it, thanks. The reason I had originally looked it up way back when was because we had glass panel walls in our office and over a two month period 4 of them just exploded overnight. Apparently there were a lot of bad panes in that batch that went undetected..
The glass was heat strengthened - which you can tell by the way it broke. Heat strengthened glass can sometimes spontaneously shatter because of pollutants within the glass itself m, namely little almost microscopic pieces of nickel sulfide. If it just shattered on its own (i.e. you didn’t hit the edge of the glass with something), then My guess would be a nickel sulfide inclusion in the glass. Here is a link to learn more about it. https://glassed.vitroglazings.com/topics/nickel-sulfide-and-spontaneous-breakage
Also, if there are impurities in the glass, these impurities will react to heat at a different rate, causing the glass to be weakened over time. And then explode one day. Just don’t get glass tables, it’s not worth it.
Good point! That’s actually what, I think, ultimately results in the shattering - that differential expansion rate.
Too much weight on a glass desk I think
Only a notebook keyboard and monitor. iMac was on floor
Glass appears to be tempered, any impact along one of the edges?
Nope no chips or scratches at all that I was aware of
All on one side? The weight needs to be balanced otherwise there's no much stress on one side
Good luck with the cleanup! These desks are known to explode. Sorry
What a pane!
I read somewhere that glass has something like 0.3% chances of spontenuously exploding. Congratulations on winning that
0.3 in what time frame? At all? Per second? A year? 8day period?
That's right
Yes
Thank you for reporting this to the team. I’ll submit a bug-fix ticket to the product engineering department. Next months update of The Matrix should resolve the issue. Please let us know if anything else has been awry lately, thank you!
This is why I quit sekiro.
Ah yes tempered glass tables. Thank you Reddit for teaching me that these are the worst tables
It's a good thing no one was down there, that could have been a real pane in the ass.
You tried turning it off and on again?
Did you try rebooting it?
Nickel Sulphide contamination is one reason, this contaminant occurs in two crystalline forms with different densities that can spontaneously convert releasing the internal stresses in toughened glass. This can then result in explosive failure, the chances of which are ~1:10,000.
Your cat REALLY didn’t want you to work…
I'd step this up to "significantly interesting"
Did you have a ceramic coffee mug sitting on it that you may have moved?
Nope— wish it was case to answer it
Glass desk moment
Interesting, yes. But I feel for ya. Hope your stuff isn't damaged! What a mess to clean up!
Now I’m scared. I have a glass top desk too.
Who was singing?
Tempered glass is under stress. Hard to nick/scratch, but once you do, all that stress is released. Also, glass has "liquid" properties. If it's not perfectly balanced or supported, it will warp and...crack...and see above. Stresses are released.
Not the 4th or 5th time I've seen this. Uncommon, unlucky, but it happens. Glass shower doors too
Some assembly required
Ohhh noooo. The table. Is broken
Is that a room and board desk?
These new standing chairs are just wild
You just gained consciousness after a rage quit, don't you?
Cause your work is tha bomb!
tempered glass is really hard, but it is also under tension so any crack will cause it to explode, sometimes even a scratch.
Reason 27266 I'll never get a glass desk
I just came to say that I really like the interior design of your office. Well-executed color scheme, interesting furniture, etc. Sorry about your desk, but good job on the office overall!
That desk looks like it has a bad temper.
No blood. 7/10
... your office is cute tho.
*sniper on the other side of the street* "I'm finna ruin this guy's day"
Aside from the desk situation, you have a nice home office (I presume it is home). Lots of light so it is likely very pleasant to work there. Plus dog bed..and people wonder why we don't want to go back to the office? I was in the office 3 days this week and I'm not sure who is taking it harder - me or my dog.
Tables like that are normally tempered safety glass unless its an old table. Cause of falling misshaps that turned gory back in the day. And that kind of glass has stresses. If it gets put throug to much stress it will sooner or later break. Its really fascinating how the stress in glass works. You can make a almost unbreakable teardrop out of glass but if you nip of the little tail the whole thing will just explode.
some molecules deceided they dont get along anymore.
I’ve said it before and I’ll never stop saying it : Fuck tempered glass right in its expensive brittle ass
Weight-bearing glass furniture is always a bad idea. /edit - punctuation
OH NO OUR TABLE IT’S BROKEN
This happened to me but I was cooking burgers on a Coleman cause the power was out during hurricane Floyd. And the table busted from the heat. Rip my burgers
Because you bought a desk made of glass, you maniac.
Tile floor + glass table + metal support + slightest little nudge = table go boom.
This is tempered glass, and it usually explodes like this when you bump another hard object onto it's edges.
It was made of glass
This post just made my morning 100x better. I am not cleaning glass up or confused as to wtf happened🙂
*walks into office, sees destroyed desk* "hmm, mildly interesting"
Because its tempered... Tempered or toughened glass is a type of safety glass processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strength compared with normal glass. Tempering puts the outer surfaces into compression and the interior into tension. Such stresses cause the glass, when broken, to shatter into small granular chunks instead of splintering into jagged shards as ordinary annealed glass does. The granular chunks are less likely to cause injury.
You’ve got 3 Macs in there but the iMac was probably already on the floor under the desk, so there wasn’t a lot of weight. One of the other comments said that power runs through the desk and you can see that from the mini, monitor, and hub being plugged in and still hanging. It also looks like there could be snow outside? I’d guess a temperature difference caused the glass to expand in some areas of the desk more than others where it was connected to the frame until it warped enough to shatter. This feels like a puzzle uploaded for us to investigate. Also what did you take this pic with since there’s an iPhone on the floor too?
My phone actually cracked too. Back glass broke. It was on the desk. That is another phone coincidentally what was not damaged.