The USA explains why it wont build The Death Star

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PostThe USA explains why it wont build The Death Star
by Hexx » Sat Jan 12, 2013 2:04 pm

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/respon ... re-looking

Official White House Response to Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016.

This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For

By Paul Shawcross

The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn't on the horizon. Here are a few reasons:

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?

However, look carefully (here's how) and you'll notice something already floating in the sky -- that's no Moon, it's a Space Station! Yes, we already have a giant, football field-sized International Space Station in orbit around the Earth that's helping us learn how humans can live and thrive in space for long durations. The Space Station has six astronauts -- American, Russian, and Canadian -- living in it right now, conducting research, learning how to live and work in space over long periods of time, routinely welcoming visiting spacecraft and repairing onboard garbage mashers, etc. We've also got two robot science labs -- one wielding a laser -- roving around Mars, looking at whether life ever existed on the Red Planet.

Keep in mind, space is no longer just government-only. Private American companies, through NASA's Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office (C3PO), are ferrying cargo -- and soon, crew -- to space for NASA, and are pursuing human missions to the Moon this decade.

Even though the United States doesn't have anything that can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, we've got two spacecraft leaving the Solar System and we're building a probe that will fly to the exterior layers of the Sun. We are discovering hundreds of new planets in other star systems and building a much more powerful successor to the Hubble Space Telescope that will see back to the early days of the universe.

We don't have a Death Star, but we do have floating robot assistants on the Space Station, a President who knows his way around a light saber and advanced (marshmallow) cannon, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is supporting research on building Luke's arm, floating droids, and quadruped walkers.

We are living in the future! Enjoy it. Or better yet, help build it by pursuing a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field. The President has held the first-ever White House science fairs and Astronomy Night on the South Lawn because he knows these domains are critical to our country's future, and to ensuring the United States continues leading the world in doing big things.

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.

Paul Shawcross is Chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget

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PostRe: The USA explains why it wont build The Death Star
by Ecno » Sat Jan 12, 2013 2:06 pm

I'd settle for hover boards. Or AT ATs.

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by Corazon de Leon » Sat Jan 12, 2013 2:10 pm

A floating hover AT-AT?

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PostRe: The USA explains why it wont build The Death Star
by Return_of_the_STAR » Sat Jan 12, 2013 2:24 pm

Fair play to the government for responding to this. It shows that they have a human side when they do stuff like this.

The interesting thing is though that they don't deny having the technology to build a death star :shock:

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PostRe: The USA explains why it wont build The Death Star
by Xeno » Sat Jan 12, 2013 2:36 pm

I think they are a little short of having artificial gravity, barrier shielding and planet destroying laser, other than that I'm sure we could do a good effort.

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PostRe: The USA explains why it wont build The Death Star
by satriales » Sat Jan 12, 2013 2:45 pm

So the main reason is money?

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PostRe: The USA explains why it wont build The Death Star
by Ecno » Sat Jan 12, 2013 2:46 pm

Xeno wrote:I think they are a little short of having artificial gravity, barrier shielding and planet destroying laser, other than that I'm sure we could do a good effort.


We has just made me realise they should have been floating around on the Falcon.

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PostRe: The USA explains why it wont build The Death Star
by rudderless » Sat Jan 12, 2013 2:49 pm

satriales wrote:So the main reason is money?


Kickstarter?

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PostRe: The USA explains why it wont build The Death Star
by tomvek » Sat Jan 12, 2013 3:10 pm

Ecno wrote:I'd settle for hover boards. Or AT ATs.

Stick me down for one please.

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PostRe: The USA explains why it wont build The Death Star
by Harry Bizzle » Sat Jan 12, 2013 3:14 pm

$850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.


About half of that is probably royalty payments to George Lucas (Disney?).

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PostRe: The USA explains why it wont build The Death Star
by Xeno » Sat Jan 12, 2013 3:20 pm

You will have to double the cost for over runs, actually can you quadruple it because as everyone knows why have one when you can have two at twice the price.

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PostRe: The USA explains why it wont build The Death Star
by TheTurnipKing » Sat Jan 12, 2013 4:04 pm

Of course they'd probably rename it the "Freedom Ball" or something.

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PostRe: The USA explains why it wont build The Death Star
by 1cmanny1 » Sat Jan 12, 2013 11:34 pm

That is great :lol: , thinks like this remind me that some people in America are awesome.

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