[philipdavis]

A phone is usually less than 200g, a CRT monitor can easily be >10kg, so at least 50 times worse

[epidemian]

And damage does not scale linearly. I'd much rather have 50 200g rocks falling on my head than a single 10kg rock :)

[foobarian]

And with a CRT you can also have the tube implode, and then you get 1000s of 1g sharp glass shards in your face.

[skrebbel]

> And damage does not scale linearly.

This must be today's "most HN" comment.

[masklinn]

> a CRT monitor can easily be >10kg, so at least 50 times worse

And some of the later generation CRTs breached 20" and were a good 30+kg.

Sony's 24" GDM-FW900 was a pretty incredible 42kg.

[GordonS]

I used to have a large CRT monitor that was 30kg (I don't recall the actual screen size, but it was somewhere between 20-30". It was an absolute behemoth, and I remember the desk sagged down at least an inch in the centre. It looked pretty dodgy, but it sat there for years without incident!