As with Shakespeare, many of Shaw's plays are continually restaged or rewritten into new media because Shaw wrote on many themes which touch on the human condition, independent of time and space.

The low tide revealed the most amazing ocean landscapes: puddles looked like lakes, sand dunes looked like mountains and flat and smooth sand spread out in all directions like an enormous desert.

Hubble observations of nearby stars show that a number of them have Kuiper Belt-like disks of icy debris encircling them.