Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016. Those who sign here petition the United States government to secure funding and resources, and begin construction on a Death Star by 2016. By focusing our defense resources into a space-superiority platform and weapon system such as a Death Star, the government can spur job creation in the fields of construction, engineering, space exploration, and more, and strengthen our national defense. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pet...-2016/wlfKzFkN Let's see if we can make it happen people! We only need 23,000 signatures!
This is the ultimate pork, it's beyond PORK! Sounds like a good idea, if it weren't for the scale. It is a galactically crazy idea. http://www.shockandahh.com/2012/02/even-nazis-had-death-star-almost.html How Much Would It Cost to Build the Death Star from Star Wars? . . . .Even if you can imagine quite a bit, Centives, the economics blog of students of Lehigh University, says it would cost “$852,000,000,000,000,000. Or roughly 13,000 times the world’s GDP” to build the Death Star…and that’s just the cost of steel production. http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolpinchefsky/2012/02/21/how-much-would-it-cost-to-build-the-death-star-from-star-wars/ And it would take an estimated 800,000 years.
it will be probabaly done by the private sector for practical reasons. I don't think people have the same fascination with space as they had in the 60s.
I like a bit of good-natured geek frivolity as much as anyone else, but to put something like this in such a civic context is childish.
I would like him to bring back the Cash for Clunkers, and put his foot down with Obamacare. As long as he doesn't cave with the fiscal cliff, I think anything else is a bonus.
Nah, not the Death Star. I'll sign a petition for the Millennium Falcon, though. Or the Enterprise. Or Babylon 5.
We currently can't even manage low earth orbit without hitching a ride. Better start small with a Star Destroyer or something.
I get it! -It's much cheaper to not build all the previous ones first... they had (have? - will have?) this tendency to blow up or disappear...
As a Vorta, this is a petition I can get behind, even if it involves the Sith and their silly superstitions.