
Throughout the Clone Wars, a clone trooper usually held a blaster rifle if not any type of specialist. Some beings used blasters from their youth: Anakin Skywalker owned a small ion blaster in his childhood, Leia Organa was given a sporting blaster when she was a teenager, and Mandalorian children were given blasters, along with extensive training, prior to becoming thirteen standard years old. Blasters ranged in size and power from compact pistols to large, heavy rifles to starship-mounted blaster cannons. The most commonly used weapon in the galaxy, blasters' intense beams consisted of compacted high-energy particles and intense light that could kill or paralyze their target, depending on the setting. You can follow Cory Williams' Alaskan adventures on his YouTube channel, LiveEachDay." Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side." ― Han Solo, to Luke Skywalker on the supposed advantages of a blaster over a lightsaber Ī blaster, also called a gun, was a ranged weapon that fired bursts of particle beam energy called blaster bolts from a replaceable power pack. We'll do our best to answer on Skunk Bear's YouTube channel. Got your own science-y questions for us? Use this form to send them our way. Why? And how? The latest video from Skunk Bear, NPR's science youtube channel, reveals the origin of that iconic sci-fi sound effect and explains why it can be heard every year in the frigid wilds. This year, Williams returned to Edmonds Lake and made another discovery. His YouTube video of the space age twanging that ensued was viewed 11 million times. He tried skipping rocks across the icy surface of Edmonds Lake, just up the road from Anchorage.

But you can skip the movie theatre and still hear those iconic blaster sounds if you visit a frozen lake.Ĭory Williams discovered this natural phenomenon back in 2014, when he moved from California to Alaska. This winter brings the latest installment of the Star Wars franchise, full of familiar costumes, familiar villains, and the familiar "pew pew pew" of space guns.
