“If you take a look at the most fantastic schemes that are considered impossible: teleportation, warp drive, parallel universes, other dimensions, artificial intelligence, ray guns, you realize that they can be possible if we advance technology a little bit.” IfsLooksLittlesUniverseBitsRealizingTechnologyImpossibleLittle BitGunFantasticDimensionsArtificial IntelligenceRaysArtificialSchemesParallelsWarpParallel Universe Author:Michio Kaku
“Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like it when it enables you to do fairly radical reinterpretations of human experience, just to show all the different interpretations that can be put on apparently fairly simple and commonplace events. That I find fun.” PeopleHumansDifferentShowsFunSimpleSpaceFictionEventsGunScience FictionShipsWanderRadicalShootingDullInterpretationRaysHuman ExperienceCommonplaceWandering AroundDifferent InterpretationsReinterpretation Author:Douglas Adams
“Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time machines, et cetera, taking them literally, not caring if they are possible or even plausible. It has no interest in or relation to real science or technology. It's fantasy in space suits. Spectacle. Wizards with lasers. Kids with ray guns. I've written both, but I have to say I respect science fiction enough that I wince when people call it sci-fi.” PeopleIfsWellsMadeWarRealEnoughUseKidsInterestSpaceFictionTechnologyFantasyWrittenGunMachinesRelationScience FictionStartingCaringFamiliarSuitsAliensRaysSci FiWizardsSpace TravelPlausibleNot CaringLasersTime MachineFederationWince Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“The thing about the ray gun is, you pick up anything you see on the street that's the shape of a gun.” StreetsShapesPicksGunRays Author:Claes Oldenburg
“And there were sort of three toys for boys and three toys for girls. And the boys I can remember was, well, there was a Dan Dare Ray Gun. Dan Dare was a sort of a cartoon character. He was just sort of a - he was like a Battle of Britain fighter pilot, only in space.” WellsI CanCharacterRememberGirlThreeSpaceBoysBattleGunDareFighterBritainRaysPilotsToysCartoonCartoon CharacterFighter PilotBattle Of Britain Author:Nick Lowe
“It was the 1950s, you know, and they had a ray gun, which was basically a flashlight with a sort of trigger on it. And it buzzed and a red light, you know, came on. But anyway we all had one - Davy Crockett hat.” KnowsLightGunRedHatsRaysTriggersFlashlightsRed Lights Author:Nick Lowe
“A force field is basically an invisible shield. You push a button and all of a sudden a bubble forms around you which is impenetrable. It can stop bullets, it can stop ray gun blasts and we realized force fields are actually a little bit difficult to create.” LittlesFormForceBitsDifficultFieldsLittle BitGunInvisibleRaysBubblesButtonsBulletsShieldsBlastForce Fields Author:Michio Kaku
“Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe Put your ray gun to my head Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!” EyeFacesSpaceMinesGunYeahPressesRaysFreakDaydreamingBabe Author:David Bowie
“I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped.” SpaceLaughingGunAliensRaysAccentsFooledOuter SpaceWigsKidnappedCoraline Book:Coraline Source: Coraline
“I swear, Kat, you drive like you’re playing a video game. (Cassandra) Yeah, yeah. Wanna see the ray gun I have under the hood to zap them if they don’t get out of my way? (Katra)” IfsWayGamesLike YouGunYeahVideoMy WayRaysSwearHood Book:Kiss of the Night Source: Kiss of the Night