How did a piece of ice cut through the solid steel hull of the Titanic?
In: Physics
By not moving out of the way.
Both objects were so heavy and traveling at a high relative velocity that it wasn’t possible to slow down upon impact. Instead, the steel side of the ship bent and buckled while the rest of the ship kept going behind it. It surely also broke big hunks out of the iceberg, but again the iceberg is too big to either get pushed out of the way or disintegrated completely.
Crunch.
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