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a living fossil hoarding 500 million years of design notes nobody asked it to update
means A marine mollusk with a spiral, chambered shell that it uses for buoyancy, surviving largely unchanged for hundreds of millions of years; also the name given to a piece of weight-training equipment.
from From Greek 'nautilos,' meaning 'sailor,' which is itself rooted in 'naus,' 'ship' — a cousin of words like 'nautical' and 'navy.' The ancients believed the related paper nautilus drifted across the sea using its membrane like a sail, so they named the creature 'the little sailor.' The chambered nautilus inherited the name by family resemblance.
- old timer
- Survived essentially unchanged for 500 million years
- jet propulsion
- Swims by squirting water like a slow torpedo
- perfect spiral
- Shell chambers follow a logarithmic growth curve
- deep diver
- Crushed if it descends below 800 meters
- many arms
- Has up to 90 tentacles, none with suckers
nautilus pompilius — living cephalopod with chambered shell found in indo-pacific waters, unchanged for 500 million years
captain nemo's submarine — fictional vessel in jules verne's 20,000 leagues under the sea (1870), named after the nautilus
uss nautilus — first nuclear-powered submarine, launched 1954, crossed under north pole in 1958