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Related: About this forumTitanic scan reveals ground-breaking details of ship's final hours
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy6gjwd0g6oA detailed analysis of a full-sized digital scan of the Titanic has revealed new insight into the doomed liner's final hours.
The exact 3D replica shows the violence of how the ship ripped in two as it sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912 - 1,500 people lost their lives in the disaster.
The scan provides a new view of a boiler room, confirming eye-witness accounts that engineers worked right to the end to keep the ship's lights on.
And a computer simulation also suggests that punctures in the hull the size of A4 pieces of paper led to the ship's demise.

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livetohike
(23,541 posts)interesting article .
SamKnause
(14,355 posts)SCantiGOP
(14,547 posts)But I had the same question.
SamKnause
(14,355 posts)Cirsium
(2,750 posts)"Standard paper sizes like ISO A4 are widely used all over the world today. This text explains the ISO 216 paper size system and the ideas behind its design."
A4 is used for letters, magazines, forms, catalogs, laser printer and copying machine output.
International standard paper sizes
SamKnause
(14,355 posts)I love to learn something new everyday.
LearnedHand
(4,815 posts)Not quite the equivalent size but it's their writing-tablet sized paper.
ShazzieB
(21,177 posts)I just forwarded the link to my husband. He's watched just about every TV documentary on the Titanic ever made (exaggerating but only a little), and I know he'll want to see this one!