
Originally Posted by
Oggie
ok here's the thing. He slammed a plastic ship up against rounded off ice cubes. The titanic hit a jagged ice berg. If you dont think ice can be sharp run a 5 inch thick sharped edge around your neck. The shear size of the iceberg would give the side of it an equally as tough resistance as metal. Metal and ice may have different melting points but at freezing point a huge chunk of ice and be almost as tough as a piece of metal. As for the viking warships bs, viking warships were made of wood but moved no where near as fast as the titanic.
From a physics standpoint, A very heavyship slamming into a very heavy object at a significant speed = a massive amount of kinetic energy exchanged which would be sufficient to rip a whole thru a side of metal. Also a key design flaw of the ship itself is that it didn't have cielings to its flood chambers. if they would've included a two inch think steel ceiling to each floor chamber it wouldn't of sank.
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