http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/12/04/death-star-petition-white-house_n_2236275.html

Let’s do this.

Yeah – let’s !!

maybe a death moon to start with, since times are tight

I’m on board!

times are tight

“Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle shed.”

t would cost 13,000 times the world’s gross domestic product (GDP), or £541,261 trillion, to supply the steel for such a structure while labour and other construction costs would send the price even higher.
They also worked out it would take more than 833,315 years at current production levels to supply enough steel for the 87 mile diameter space craft

Its the kind of economic stimulus we need

I nominate footflaps original Brickie as projects manager!

Stand by for more STW casual racism.

Americans are SO fick!!!

Did you know they’ve got drive thru banks?!?

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5blbv4WFriM[/video]

I nominate footflaps original Brickie as projects manager!

He’s still looking for work / a mug……

I nominate footflaps original Brickie as projects manager!

All aboard

Steel? Who’d build something like that out of steel? Anyway, it would be constructed from materials obtained from asteroid mining, having to move all the materials necessary up the gravity well would put too much extra onto the costs, and wouldn’t be feasible anyway, apart from being pointless once you’ve reached the level of engineering sophistication and materials development required to build something like that. Single-crystal monofilament, construction diamond, Von Neumann machines, solar-mirror furnaces for smelting alloys in weightless conditions that are difficult to manufacture in gravity, materials like LiquidMetal, that Apple are working with; an injection-moulded metal that has no crystalline structure, making it very light, very hard, and very strong.
In any case, there are already two Death Stars in our solar system, each the size of a small moon.
Oh, wait, actually…
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/12/07/death_star_moon_saturn_s_icy_moon_tethys_seen_by_cassini.html

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Its the kind of economic stimulus we need

The only solution for the world trade deficit is the out-of-world economy!

Stand by for more STW casual racism.

Americans are SO fick!!!

“American” isn’t a race, so it’s all fine …

Something to consider :

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQdDRrcAOjA[/video]

Something to consider :

Fair point. I think the rebels should be ashamed of themselves.