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* Played with in [[Isaac Asimov]]'s short story Pate de Foie Gras, (a spoof scientific article ostensibly written by a Department of Agriculture employee) about a goose which through some unknown atomic transmutation process really does lay golden eggs. Since the golden eggs don't produce more geese, there's only the one, so they can't afford to dissect it for study. Stumped, they turn to the public for an answer, openly publishing the story in a science fiction magazine in the knowledge that it won't be believed ''but will still get a pile of thought-out responses from its audience''.

* Done in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Star Wars EU]] novel ''Rogue Planet'', when Anakin tells a guard that he's talking to {{spoiler|the planet himself, who is getting ready to blast the invaders out of the sky.}}

{{quote| '''Alicia:''' Maybe it was, you know, astral projection or something.<br />

'''Clare:''' [[Involuntary Time Travel|Time travel]].<br />