Part High Scientist, part Piece of the Week, this week I touch my SciFi inner geek and pull out the Ray Gun Bubbler.
Ray Gun Bubbler
We found these Ray Gun Bubbler pieces on the web. I was originally inspired by a post to our Bongs and Great Glass Pinterest board, which sent me deeper into the web looking for these cool pieces. A couple of these pieces are by Darby.
What is a Ray Gun?
First, let’s be clear, ray guns are fictional weapons. There is something kind of close to a real-life ray gun, “directed energy weapons“.
Wikipedia on Ray Guns
Ray guns are a type of fictional directed-energy weapon. They have various alternate names: ray gun, death ray, beam gun, blaster, laser gun, phaser, zap gun etc. They are a well-known feature of science fiction; for such stories they typically have the general function of guns. According to the stories, when activated, a ray gun emits a ray, typically visible, usually lethal if it hits a human target, often destructive if it hits mechanical objects, with properties and other effects unspecified or varying.
A very early example of a ray gun is the Heat-Ray featured in H. G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds (1898). Science fiction during the 1920s described death rays. Early science fiction often described or depicted raygun beams making bright light and loud noise like lightning or large electric arcs. Nikola Tesla’s attempts at developing directed-energy weapons encouraged the imagination of many writers. – Wikipedia
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