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* AllStarCast: A first for a live-action Disney film. Creator/JamesMason as Nemo, Creator/KirkDouglas as Ned, Creator/PeterLorre as Conseil, and Paul Lukas as Arronax.
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** In 1880, only ten years after the novel was released, Spanish engineer UsefulNotes/IsaacPeral deployed the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_submarine_Peral first prototype]] of a war submarine with electric propulsion and capability to launch torpedeos, actually performing a successful test attack on a cruiser by night without being noticed. As of the 1890s, the Navy of Verne's homeland, France, had also [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarine_Narval_(Q4) built]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarine_Morse_(Q3) at least]] 4 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarine_Gustave_Z%C3%A9d%C3%A9_(1893) functional]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarine_Gymnote_(Q1) submarines]] with similar electric propulsion, out of which ''Gustave Zédé'' could successfully fight large surface vessels with torpedoes.

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** In 1880, only ten years after the novel was released, Spanish engineer UsefulNotes/IsaacPeral deployed the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_submarine_Peral first prototype]] of a war submarine with electric propulsion and capability to launch torpedeos, torpedoes, actually performing a successful test attack on a cruiser by night without being noticed. As of the 1890s, the Navy of Verne's homeland, France, had also [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarine_Narval_(Q4) built]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarine_Morse_(Q3) at least]] 4 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarine_Gustave_Z%C3%A9d%C3%A9_(1893) functional]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarine_Gymnote_(Q1) submarines]] with similar electric propulsion, out of which ''Gustave Zédé'' could successfully fight large surface vessels with torpedoes.

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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nautilus_%28SSN-571%29 The world's first nuclear-powered submarine]], which would become the first submarine to transit the North Pole while submerged, also bore the name ''Nautilus''. While it wasn't the first ship in the U.S. Navy to bear the name, the choice probably wasn't entirely coincidental.

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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nautilus_%28SSN-571%29 The world's first nuclear-powered submarine]], which would become the first submarine to transit the North Pole while submerged, also bore the name ''Nautilus''. While it wasn't the first ship in the U.S. Navy to bear the name, name (it was already a long-standing tradition to name submarines after sea creatures), the choice probably wasn't entirely coincidental.


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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'' names the third airship acquired by the player ''Nautilus'', and not coincidentally this is the only airship that can double as a submarine.
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** The chapter ''"Sperm Whales and Baleen Whales"'' has Nemo use the ''Nautilus'' to rescue some baleen whales by slaughtering a pod of sperm hhales, that Nemo calls: "cruel, destructive beasts, and they deserve to be exterminated." A couple of chapters later the ''Nautilus'' has its infamous encounter with giant squid: [[{{Irony}} animals that we now know are favourites in the sperm whale's diet. They do not eat other species of whale.]]

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** The chapter ''"Sperm Whales and Baleen Whales"'' has Nemo use the ''Nautilus'' to rescue some baleen whales by slaughtering a pod of sperm hhales, whales, that Nemo calls: "cruel, destructive beasts, and they deserve to be exterminated." A couple of chapters later the ''Nautilus'' has its infamous encounter with giant squid: [[{{Irony}} animals that we now know are favourites in the sperm whale's diet. They do not eat other species of whale.]]

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** The chapter ''"Sperm Whales and Baleen Whales"'' has Nemo use the ''Nautilus'' to rescue some Baleen Whales by slaughtering a pod of Sperm Whales, that Nemo calls: "cruel, destructive beasts, and they deserve to be exterminated." A couple of chapters later the ''Nautilus'' has its infamous encounter with giant squid: [[{{Irony}} animals that we now know are favourites in the Sperm Whale's diet. They do not eat other species of whale.]]

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** The chapter ''"Sperm Whales and Baleen Whales"'' has Nemo use the ''Nautilus'' to rescue some Baleen Whales baleen whales by slaughtering a pod of Sperm Whales, sperm hhales, that Nemo calls: "cruel, destructive beasts, and they deserve to be exterminated." A couple of chapters later the ''Nautilus'' has its infamous encounter with giant squid: [[{{Irony}} animals that we now know are favourites in the Sperm Whale's sperm whale's diet. They do not eat other species of whale.]]



** The ''Nautilus'' was supposed to make 50 knots on Bunsen batteries. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_class_submarine The only modern submarine]] which could approach 50 knots needed 30 000 kW for the main engine. To get 30 000 kW from Bunsen cells their combined size would exceed ''Nautilus'' entire hull in size by a few orders of magnitude.

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** The ''Nautilus'' was supposed to make 50 knots on Bunsen batteries. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_class_submarine The only modern submarine]] which could approach 50 knots needed 30 000 kW for the main engine. To get 30 000 kW from Bunsen cells their combined size would exceed ''Nautilus'' the ''Nautilus''' entire hull in size by a few orders of magnitude.

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