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  • It Would Cost $852 Quadrillion Dollars to Build a Real Death Star (Almost the U.S. National Debt!)

    02/20/2012 7:23:57 PM PST · by DogByte6RER · 40 replies
    DVICE.com ^ | Feb 20, 2012 | Raymond Wong
    It would cost $852 quadrillion dollars to build a real Death Star That's 852 with 15 zeros following it. I know, that figure is insane. You know what that means. It means Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader were rolling in the money like filthy rich rappers. I guess ruling the Galactic Empire isn't so terrible when you're ballin'. Finally putting some questions to rest, the smart folk over at Centives calculated how much iron it would take to build the planet-destroying space station and even figured out how long it would take to build. Here's the reality-check breakdown: • Based...
  • It's getting late for the rescue (dem "debate" fiasco)

    10/28/2003 5:54:16 AM PST · by rmgatto · 3 replies · 139+ views
    The Washingon Times ^ | 10/28/03 | Wesley Pruden
    <p>Barbara Bush, the phrasemaker of the family, could have a great future as a pundit. Nobody has sized up this crop of Democratic presidential candidates quite as astutely as she has: "They're a pretty sorry group."</p> <p>No one who watched the Sunday-night Democratic "debate" from Detroit could argue with this assessment from the wife of one president and the mother of another, who once famously described Geraldine Ferraro as "something that rhymes with rich."</p>