#nautilus submarine

[cryskir]

'One could count the calimars by millions'

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I'm surprised no billionaires have ever tried to build Captain Nemo's Nautilus to live a self-sufficient life at sea. It could never work, but that's the exact kind of mad project that someone like Elon Musk would cook up to waste money if space travel weren't in vogue right now. Nuclear reactors can run for years before needing to refuel, and modern subs can make their own oxygen from seawater, so they can stay submerged for as long as their supplies last (the record is 111 days set by the HMS Warspite in 1982-3). I don't think a sub could stay underwater forever by fishing for all its food, but then again I'm a rational adult with common sense and the ability to recognize the impossible, while a billionaire just wants his neat toy to work no matter what. It's like that Australian guy who wanted to build a replica of the Titanic and a "real" Jurassic Park with lifesize animatronics, and gave up after he realized they would take a lot more time and money than he imagined at first impulse.

Thing is, as funny as it would be to watch someone like Musk try snd fail to build the Nautilus, there's no incentive for him to do it. All his half-baked ideas are designed to fail from the start because the failure is the point; there's always a benefit to his failures. The hyperloop was never really supposed to exist, he only hyped it up so California would cut funding for high speed rail. SpaceX rockets explode more often than they succeed so they're not really gonna take anyone to the moon or Mars anytime soon, this program is just a blank check from the government so the US could hypothetically launch military supplies anywhere on Earth within a couple hours. A real life Nautilus would have to be some scam, a cover for something heinous like a prison camp for the homeless straight out of some 80s sci-fi dystopia movie, or a cartoonish distraction from horrors of war like an underwater drone program or American terrorists privateers attacking fiber optic cables and gas pipelines owned by eastern companies.

The eccentric billionaire is a myth designed to make the worst human being you could possibly imagine look like benevolent innovators who want nothing more than to Propel Humanity Into the 22nd Century Today™!

Tony Stark isn't real. Nobody alive is like him, nobody ever was, nobody ever will be.

[alphamecha-mkii]

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Ken Taylor

[ultimatepad]

U-boat Worx’s ‘Nautilus’

[rupertbbare]

The Nautilus by Grant Regan

[adventurelandia]

Nautilus set still from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

[lonestarbattleship]

Launch of USS NAUTILUS (SSN-871).

Date: April 1, 2024

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[the-swift-tricker]

The Nautilus as it appears in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

[id under cut]

[id three separate images showing the nautilus, a massive, ornately built steampunk-esque submarine with the design of a copper toned giant squid stretching across the top from front to back, tentacles wrapping forward around the bow of the ship. the first image shows the nautilus breaching the surface of the ocean and spouting a jet of water out of a blowhole like apparatus. the second shows it submerging with bubbles filling the waters around it. the third shows it docked in murky, greenish waters. end id]

[thefoilguy]

Nautilus from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Aluminum Foil Sculpture

[reine-du-sourire]

Nemo's Notes

Nemo's Notes

[minneral]

sometimes, for one reason or another, the Suez Canal is not an option

[see-arcane]

Nemo laughs at Erik and Dracula's failed attempts to kidnap-and-seduce

Dracula: Rich, powerful, supernaturally entrancing--also a predatory bastard toward his captive.

Erik: Genius, multitalented, lover of music and the arts--also a predatory bastard toward his captive.

Nemo: Genius, rich, champion of the oppressed and the ocean's majesty--not a predatory bastard toward his captive(s).

Hmm. Just can't tell where the Count and the Phantom are going awry. What do you think, Captain?

Nemo, juggling buried treasure, pouring out impassioned tales of history, the sea, and aiding his fellow victims on land, playing a melancholy and powerful organ piece, taking Aronnax on a date tour of Atlantis: I really can't say. Guess it's a mystery that will never be solved.

[gameraboy2]

Mysterious Island (1961)

[alphamecha-mkii]

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Kevin O'Neil

[texasthrillbilly]

Nautilus

[ultimatepad]

U-Boat Worx’s Underwater superyacht “Nautilus”