We petition the Obama Administration to:

[Apogeal Alpha01]

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!

 

[Smellincoffee]

Agreed. Let's get people back into space, even if it means building a big explodey thing.

 

[Hound of UIster]

Another piece of pork barrel legislation for the military-industrial complex.

 

[Apogeal Alpha01]

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.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Pesky UN won't like it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty

 

[Drago-Kazov]

Agreed. Let's get people back into space, even if it means building a big explodey thing.

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.

 

[Gaith]

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.

 

[CorporalClegg]

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.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Nah, not the Death Star. I'll sign a petition for the Millennium Falcon, though. Or the Enterprise. Or Babylon 5.

 

[Mike Farley]

We currently can't even manage low earth orbit without hitching a ride. Better start small with a Star Destroyer or something.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Landspeeder.

 

[Triskelion]

blaster.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Midi-chlorians

 

[RJDiogenes]

Michelle Obama in a slave Leia costume.

 

[Drago-Kazov]

Biden would love that.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

So would I.

 

[trekkiedane]

/.../ Or Babylon 5.

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...

 

[JarodRussell]

This is the annoying side effect of democracy.

 

[RJDiogenes]

/.../ Or Babylon 5.

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...

Exactly. Cut right to the chase.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

As a Vorta, this is a petition I can get behind, even if it involves the Sith and their silly superstitions.