[Southack]

"An Even More Rivetting (British spelling) Conspiracy would be to claim that the hull plates were joined improperly."

You mean, Why does my knife chop up ice cubes instead of the ice cubes / ice bergs scraping open the Titanic's steel hull??

[Robert A Cook PE]

Why does your knife chop ice cubes, rather than the ther way around?

I hope you're asking retoricly (sp -1)....

...because tens of millions of pounds of 1" thick steel clamped to the side of a twenty-plus knot ship "breaks" tears, rips, and gets shredded thoroughly when hit by hundreds of thousands of tons of motionless iceburg.

Newton had a couple of theories about that that inertia and momemtum and mass, ya know. Hasn't been a ship yet that has sunk an iceburg.