Galactic Price Navigator

Inspired by the economic considerations of interstellar travel in 'Interstellar' and the rare, valuable technology of 'Nightfall', this project creates an educational technology platform. Users can input fictional items or concepts from 'Nightfall' (e.g., specific alien artifacts, technological components). The system will then utilize web scraping techniques, similar to e-commerce pricing scrapers, to find real-world comparable items or raw material costs that might be analogous (e.g., rare earth metals for a fictional power source, high-end scientific equipment for a fictional device). The core functionality involves assigning a 'Galactic Value' to these fictional items based on a weighted algorithm that considers scarcity (informed by the narrative of 'Nightfall'), complexity of creation (informed by fictional descriptions), and the comparative real-world cost of equivalent materials or technologies (informed by 'Interstellar's' pragmatic approach to space exploration and resource management). The output will be an educational visualization, perhaps a chart or interactive infographic, showing the calculated Galactic Value against real-world price benchmarks, highlighting themes of resource scarcity, technological advancement, and economic speculation in both fiction and reality. This project is niche as it bridges literary analysis with applied economic principles in a unique way. It's low-cost as it primarily relies on publicly available data and open-source scraping tools. The high earning potential lies in its application for educational institutions, science fiction enthusiasts' communities, and potentially as a unique data visualization tool for economic trend analysis within creative industries.