You spelled "asplode" incorrectly.
Bikes of all materials break. I love how worked up people get about carbon frames - if you ask me, the most worrisome part that could catastrophically fail is the fork and (drum roll) good luck finding a bike without a carbon fork these days. Low end Al bikes and some high end steel bikes lack them but the rest of us are pedaling away with carbon all over the place.
Way back in the early 90s I went bike shopping with a friend and we ended up at a specialized store - they were selling a lugged carbon round-tube bike (Allez at the time, I think) and the sales guy had a sample of the carbon tubing to use as a prop. He took that thing and WHACKED the table about as hard as he could to demonstrate that carbon wasn't some frail material. I don't know what that tells you about the longevity of a carbon frame, but it was pretty impressive.
