How did a piece of ice cut through the solid steel hull of the Titanic?
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Cars are very strong and if you took a knife to a car you would be wasting your time aside from some paint damage.
But if your car hits a brick wall even at a fairly low speed it is going to do a lot of damage.
The same principle applied here. The iceberg was very big and had significantly more mass than the titanic. And it was hard enough that even though it wasn’t as tough as the relatively thin plate of steel, the in plate of steel still gave more under all of the insanely high amount of mass both objects were colliding with.
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