if two large boats touch while passing by each other, they'll both rock, but will they be damaged/tipped?

2014-11-10T13:13:12Z

this isn't really a joke/riddle, it's just that the thing sorted it into this category and i can't change it.

2014-11-10T13:13:40Z

never mind i changed it

adaviel2014-11-11T10:13:21Z

Depends what you mean by "large". Two 50ft tugboats could bang into each other quite hard without damage, but they are designed to bang into things. Something like a cruise ship would certainly be damaged - from the scale effect that makes toy cars so much more durable than real ones, large boats are more delicate than small ones in proportion (I don't mean that a large boat would not crush a small one, but that if it's 1000x the tonnage it's only something like 10x as strong)

Geoff B2014-11-12T11:08:46Z

Probably both damaged

Anonymous2014-11-10T14:24:17Z

Bloody right they will