The centrifuge would not run like that, it noticed the vibrations and turns off. They had that "feature" for decades now.

I work in a lab. I've seen centrifuges try to walk off the counter before.

The funeral depicted is a viral video where the pallbearers are dancing/swaying so it's like you'll die and even your casket will be moving afterwards.

I thought it was a birth control pill box.

to separate the conponents

Scientist here. That's what it's for. A centrifuge makes the tubes experience very high accelerations, like 100 times the force of gravity, to separate liquids and solids by density. For example you could put blood in there and get a layer of red blood cells and a layer of plasma stacked on top of each other.

It depends on the speed and size of the centrifuge, the mass of the load, and the magnitude of the imbalance. Someone else mentioned an ultracentrifuge, typically a large, washing-machine-like device that can spin larger loads at high velocity. The amount of energy released if they become significantly unbalanced is pretty huge: they have a containment layer, but some could kill you if the load got through and hit you.

On the flip side, I may have intentionally ran unbalanced microcentrifuges a few (many, it was many) times as a grad student because I was too tired and lazy to make a counterweight. I just held it down with fairly firm pressure and it was fine. That's not very good for its bearings, though. Sorry lab manager!

I’m not sure about the more classic devices but a lot of game controllers and phones these days use linear motors or similar piezoelectric devices for vibration. For instance Apple's “Taptic Engine”.

Crazy video... can you remove the timestamp? 40s shows the aftermath.

Panel 3 makes sense both ways. (x_x)

That’ll happen when you set the baby scale to 13,200 rpm.