The reason you're not totally impressed and surprised by things like shrink rays and strippers? Ya its because you're not 13 anymore. Been there done that. Welcome to adulthood its boring as hell.

Perhaps off topic but to address your comment on Darwin, my understanding is that Darwin developed his theory of evolution through natural selection well before Alfred Russel Wallace. He then shelved it for a time and returned to it when Wallace was prepping his work. Only important because you were implying that Darwin somehow read and copied Wallace's work and then presented Wallace's ideas as his own. If you have anything to show that Darwin did in fact plagiarize I would be interested in reading it.