Then Drop it on this..
The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
Yeah. Thanks Obama. Geez
That’s ok
I’m building one in my spare time in the shed with appliance parts.
and mine WONT have a weakness like the Death Star’s
There were all kinds of scientific errors in the original Star Wars. I didn’t care as it was a fun movie.
Now they are just bad movies.
Not at all feasible when your economy is just a fraction of the output of one middling sized, low tech world. Now if your economy was composed of hundreds of high population, high tech worlds you might consider such an undertaking.
Install a few nuclear reactors, and the would be the total cost. After that, the power is just there.
Is there enough metal in the Asteroid belt available to actually construct something so large?
I’ve always wondered why Dyson thought a sphere around an inhabited star would be feasible strictly from the standpoint of available mass.
More $tudy needed.
remember, that is the cost of two of them...
Oh right. “The government” declined to take up the task.
Then Drop it on this..
For the love of heaven, don’t tell AOC! “We’ll, like, build the Death Star and we’ll just, like, pay for it! Right?”
-PJ
It sure seems like the Genesis device from Star Trek would be a whole lot cheaper. It can’t destroy a planet, but it does wipe out everything on a planet’s surface, and it is only as big as a photon torpedo.
When I saw Spock buried in a photon torpedo, I laughed my ass off. I mean, wouldn’t a photon torpedo be an energy weapon with no physical structure? I always laughed at how wrong the movie got that tidbit.
I mean, how many ways can you prove they got this wrong.
A physical torpedo would not emit the blindingly bright light that we always see from afar when the Enterprise fires off a photon torpedo. People might say “that is the propulsion signature”. Well, the same light emits when the torpedo is directly oncoming, so that is false.
How about the speed of the torpedo itself. Without going to Warp speed (can’t see how a little lozenge would have a warp drive), it would take a really long tome for that little capsule to cross the vast distances from Enterprise to target. Instead, photon torpedoes hit their target in a few seconds no matter how far the target.
Before Wrath of Kahn, photon torpedos were just energy weapons like the phasers were. Firing Spock off in a photon torpedo casing was just dumb dumb dumb.
Even more expensive than the Green New Deal. But it’s close.
How silly, we have zero maned space capability as I type this. lmao
Culture Abominator class Rapid Offensive Units have no problem F-ing entire solar systems from a safe distance of several light years ... Death Star pufffile!
Why bother with the Death Star? Just divert a big asteriod.
You just need to throw rocks at a planet.
Small for cities and large to wipe out most of the life.
Obama already had a ‘world killing weapon’ in his hands, and started implementing it.
And then!!!!!!!.......
Trump happened!!!
Socialism went dead. (Though there are still those who are trying to revive that ‘weapon’, namely, Elizabeth Warren and AOC and Kamala Harris and the whole socialist party led by Nancy Pelosi.