Testing the Titanic against a MEGA TSUNAMI!

RCE after finding out that dropping a cruise ship from 200 feet in the air causes it to snap in half... "I'm learning so much about ship building."

Technically isn't the AtAt historic? A long time ago in a galaxy far far away

It's good to see that most of these ships are built so the front doesn't fall off at all

Those sections are called "water tight compartments" and they are used to section a ship off if it's flooding. Didn't know being a Navy engineer would come in handy today. Ships will buckle when there is a massive cavitation under the hull like that, they rip themselves apart by their own weight, that's how torpedoes work with a massive displacement off water.

"Anti-waves" are also known as troughs, like rogue waves (freak tidal waves that appear seemingly out of nowhere) rogue troughs exist and between them are likely responsible for the disapearance of a number of ships.

"That hole at the end" is the APU. Basically a tiny jet engine which provides electricity and pressurized air when the engines aren't running.

Before your channel, I had no idea I loved pointless engineering. As a cruise ship nerd, I especially love this video 💙🚢

"That is a massive fire hazard" under a minute later "why did we change from wood into metal?" Also an actual fully wooden boat the size of current cruise ships wouldn't be able to sustain itself under its own weight withought bending i believe

I’m pretty sure they stopped using wood because the size of the ship was dictated by the size of trees. Trees are smaller now since we been cutting them down. And there is a max size fore a wooden ship before it rips it self apart because the different parts of the ship are moving in different directions. I’m pretty sure the metal ship broke when you drop them just because they where heavier than the wood ship. And water is pretty hard when your fall from like 1 mile up.

Reminds me of PowderToy, i'd love to see RCE review some powder toy builds like reactors and stuff :)

Looking at the animations it’s hard not to notice the fact some compartments in the cabins still have all their air after hope is lost. Terrifying to be in one of those! You know you can feel the angle and motion. 😬

The pins aren't actually supposed to poke holes in the ship, they're supposed to keep the object under them from moving. But the forces moving the ships around are a lot stronger than the ones holding them together, so it just rips the chunk under the pin right off.

Is there a chance that the model of the Titanic has been specifically programmed to snap in half and sink like it did in the movie and IRL?

So the "anti-wave" is a thing just not in the way that you think. See when an underwater anti-ship mine explodes underwater it creates a bubble that rushes to the surface and as it does it flexes in and out causing hull whip in the ship. When it reaches the surface it ruptures and sends a high pressure water jet through the ship splitting it in half. The last thing to happen is when it ruptures it opens a void under the ship basically causing it to float in the air for a moment before it falls into the void and the water rushes back in filling the void and finishing the job of breaking the ship in half. The void would be considered your "anti-wave". "Scientific" explanation courtesy of the US Navy.

The hole at the end of the plane, is the APU exhaust (a diesel engine exhaust pipe, like on a car) that engine allows the plane to power its electronics before the main engines are switched on and normally shouldn't be restarted before the engines go offline after reaching its destination. Sully activated it after he lost his two engines, that saved everyone because the automatic pilot could maintain the aircraft horizontal to ensure a better splashing in the Hudson river. The Ram Air Turbine only generate power for a few screens and not total automation, the APU is more powerful. Plan es are structurally very weak, they just have to wisthand wind and internal pressure, otherwise they are very lightly built. Titanic spliting in half with a wave was the first conspiracy theory, many people couldn't believe that an iceberg could sink a ship that size and as it was the biggest on its age, reasonsable people just thought that the ship wouldn't have wistanded a wave. Even if they were right on paper, weather was absolutely calm that day and no waves so big to allow that to happen were registered. The main weakspot of any ship is its keel. Instead of planting a bomb inside, you should simulate a torpedo hit just UNDER the keel. Results are most of the time devastating. Wooden ships are light and can take quite a punch because they deform a lot. However, we went into metal ship hulls because of the introduction of boiler rooms feeding propulsion. Boilers would be too heavy for a wooden ship to bear, so a metallic ship could be bigger and thus allow a better boyancy.

"Words Matt has never heard" Editors are getting feisty again, RCE, might need to go visit the editing basement or consider cutting their rations

Watching RCE learn about what pins are is very wholesome. A little bit more and he might even learn about what they do.

RCE: "I'll save the ship!" Also RCE 3 seconds later: "Oops I dropped it..."

Fun Fact: Even though the Titanic and maybe the Olympic didn't hit a rouge wave, the RMS Lusitania has hit one. During January 1910 she was doing her normal trip from Liverpool to New York. But one night she encountered a 75 ft. wave going towards her. The wave hit her and she survived without no-one dying. Even though one died they did however have her bridge was in ruins. Having her bridge bend 2 inches backwards. Just a little Fun Fact that people might know.

Memo to self. Do not give RCE the thanos gauntlet. Or any button ever that might make him think "what does this do?"