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« on: January 12, 2013, 03:51:28 am »

Death Star Petition Gets White House Rebuff

By Ethan Klapper   Posted: 01/11/2013 10:08 pm EST  |  Updated: 01/11/2013 10:17 pm



Sorry, folks. The Obama administration will not be building a Death Star.

The White House responded Friday night to a petition on its website urging construction of a Death Star for job creation and national defense purposes by 2016.

Here's why, according to Paul Shawcross, chief of the Science and Space Branch of the Office of Management and Budget, who wrote an epic response to the petition and its nearly 35,000 signatories:

        The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.
        The Administration does not support blowing up planets.
        Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?

Shawcross did take the opportunity to explain what is being done already, instead of the government spending the the estimated $852 quadrillion (in case you were wondering what the above number was) to build the ultimate planet-destroying machine.

There's the International Space Station (which doesn't destroy planets). There's the two rovers on Mars ("one wielding a laser"). Oh yeah, here's the president wielding a light saber! Who knew -- the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is even "supporting research" on building Luke Skywalker's arm.

Shawcross closed by plugging a big initiative of the Obama administration: science, technology, engineering and math education:

    If you do pursue a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field, the Force will be with us! Remember, the Death Star's power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force.

Sorry, "Star Wars" fans, it seems the gravitational pull of Washington's budget battles was too much to make a $852 quadrillion investment.
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« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2013, 06:47:42 am »

Wow, I'm surprised they actually responded to the petition.  I'm sure they were laughing their asses off when they read it.  I would have. Grin
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« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2013, 06:05:40 pm »

They should built it anyway, that would give the conspiracy theorists something to really crow about!  Imagine the Alex Jones rants if the White House was building a death star.
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« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2013, 08:00:24 pm »

He would probably have an aneurism. lol  Grin
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« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2013, 02:29:32 pm »

The Death Star is inferior..... The Exodus would not be destroyed as easily.... Smiley

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« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2013, 02:35:11 pm »

Death Star Petition Gets White House Rebuff

By Ethan Klapper   Posted: 01/11/2013 10:08 pm EST  |  Updated: 01/11/2013 10:17 pm



Sorry, folks. The Obama administration will not be building a Death Star.

The White House responded Friday night to a petition on its website urging construction of a Death Star for job creation and national defense purposes by 2016.

Here's why, according to Paul Shawcross, chief of the Science and Space Branch of the Office of Management and Budget, who wrote an epic response to the petition and its nearly 35,000 signatories:

        The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.
        The Administration does not support blowing up planets.
        Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?

Shawcross did take the opportunity to explain what is being done already, instead of the government spending the the estimated $852 quadrillion (in case you were wondering what the above number was) to build the ultimate planet-destroying machine.

There's the International Space Station (which doesn't destroy planets). There's the two rovers on Mars ("one wielding a laser"). Oh yeah, here's the president wielding a light saber! Who knew -- the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is even "supporting research" on building Luke Skywalker's arm.

Shawcross closed by plugging a big initiative of the Obama administration: science, technology, engineering and math education:

    If you do pursue a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field, the Force will be with us! Remember, the Death Star's power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force.

Sorry, "Star Wars" fans, it seems the gravitational pull of Washington's budget battles was too much to make a $852 quadrillion investment.


If planetary resources which is ran by Elites teams up with uncle Sam, asteroid materials would be used to drastically reduce that cost by (guessing) 80%?   
One point that can be made validly is that all the materials needed are in asteroids and if they can be refined for use. They could even shape something like Sirius, the largest known asteroid. Into a giant space station/artificial moon/refining plant/ect. ect. ect.
 We can use whats there if the consistency of irons ,nickel, and cobalt are present.
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« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2013, 07:34:27 pm »

We could also take the design specs from the Star Wars movie and just make the dang thing, as well as the X-wing fighter. Two guys actually did try and make their own X-Wing fighter one time, although it didn't go too well:

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The Force must be strong with these geeks. (It would have to be.) This is an actual, working Star Wars X-Wing, built by the San Diego Tripoli Rocket Association. Of course, in this context "actual" means it exists and "working" means it's able to get off the ground. At 23 feet long, it's impressive but not the kind of craft you'd want to take into battle against a Death Star. Sure, the R2-D2 beeps, but the laser cannons don't work.

Amateur rocketeer Andy Woerner led the 2,500-hour, $7,000 effort to get the thing airborne. His 40-person crew of doctors, mail carriers, construction workers, and other Star Wars obsessives labored without a blueprint, guided mainly by memories of George Lucas' magnum opus, scaled-up measurements taken from a 15-inch model, and their own high midichlorian counts. The biggest challenges: figuring out how to make the hinged wings lock into attack position and ensuring that all four class-M rocket engines would fire at the same time.

They did, but seconds after liftoff the fighter pitched wildly and blew up - just like Red 10. And Red Leader. And Biggs (poor Biggs). The wings, built to the proportions of the model, just couldn't take the force. "We were afraid the wing panels would fold up," Woerner admits. On the bright side, prior to its flight to oblivion, young Rebels got to clamber around the cockpit. "We do this for the kids," Woerner says. Because, you know, it's not like these guys are geeks or anything. By the way, the club's next project: a Klingon D7 Battle cruiser. And if this one blows up, well, that's how the Klingons like to go out,

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/15-12/st_xwing
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http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/15-12/st_xwing
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