Then Drop it on this..
Posted on 10/10/2019 1:51:35 PM PDT by bananaman22
Even if you haven’t seen Star Wars, everyone knows about the Death Star. But how realistic is the idea of the Death Star, and how much energy would it really take power such a monstrosity?
In the off chance that you’ve spent some time away from Earth over the last few decades and you don't know what a Death Star is, it is only the most powerful space station ever imagined and has the ability to blow up an entire planet.
The Death Star is such a mind-bogglingly fantastic concept that it even gave rise to a half-serious petition to the Obama administration to actually build one. Unfortunately, the government, which actually replied to the petition, declined to take up the task, stating that such a task would cost $850,000,000,000,000,000 (and that the administration “doesn’t support blowing up planets”). Star Wars fans told by the administration that building such a weapon seemed unwise, given its “fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship.”
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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.
Truly the worst president ever. A fleet of Executor class Super Star Destroyers would have been the economical alternative.
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.
Don’t be silly. That’s just a moon.
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.
I already HAVE the power to destroy a planet. I, and my cows have all farted. We’ve begun the irreversible cascade of climatic doom. #iAmADeathStar
remember, that is the cost of two of them...
Oh right. “The government” declined to take up the task.
Then Drop it on this..
Yep! However, obunghole's deathstar would have had very diverse and woke crew... So "self destruction" would have been 100% assured...
LOL
They should make a Star Wars where obama was in charge of construction.
The whole thing would be painted in rainbow flag colors.
https://www.space.com/351-star-wars-cast-crew-demystify-trilogy.html
“I think it was speculating on the administrative cost of the janitorial staff of the Death Star, taking this hard-edged reality to something that’s fantasy,” Hamill joked. “But I was that way myself. I remember saying things like, ‘Well, wait a minute. I just got out of the trash compactor. How come my hair’s all perfect?’ And Harrison (Ford) would go, ‘Hey kid ... it ain’t that kind of movie.”’
Lol!!
Graphene.
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