re: #311 Ziggy_TARDIS

A head on hit also would have likely killed 200+ people, mostly crew and 3rd class passengers.The ship weighed 52k tons, and was moving at least 20 kts, producing about 64.72 million kilojoules of energy, if I am doing e=mc^2 correctly.

Hold the phone, there, Sparky. You want to use the kinetic energy formula, KE= 1/2 mv², not the mass-energy equivalence formula more appropriate to nuclear reactions.