Brilliant:

 

An online petition on a White House website to secure resources and funding to build a Star Wars-like "Death Star" by 2016 has gathered 26,447 signatures and will spark a response from the Obama administration...

 

The authors of the petition rationalized the strange request for a Death Star — a doomsday weapon capable of destroying planets, which featured in the film Star Wars — by stating that the benefits of such a craft would boost job numbers and aid in national defence.

 

Source:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/12/13/death-star-petition.html

Haha, just wait for the Chinese newspapers to report this seriously!

 

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hat is the official resonse likely to be - don't be silly (although phrased more politely)?

I'd prefer to see a fleet of AT-AT Walkers (Empire Strikes Back)... :wink:

I'd prefer to see a fleet of AT-AT Walkers (Empire Strikes Back)... :wink:

 

I would prefer the F-35 program to be replaced with a TIE Fighter program. Lets not waste our time with atmospheric fighters any more. :lol:

Doesn't surprise me since it was just discovered they were considering blowing up the moon in the 1960's to show off the Russians. No wonder our species is doomed!

I would prefer the F-35 program to be replaced with a TIE Fighter program. Lets not waste our time with atmospheric fighters any more. :lol:

 

Yes, that would do! :lol: ..... Twin Ion Engines ...... the future!

 

......but remember, even with all the armoury and technology....... the Ewoks still 'owned' the Imperial Bad guys with just a few rocks and tree trunks! :wink:

We need a Death Star? Good for jobs? Hmmmmmm! Take cover folks, the nuts are falling from the trees like hail. I guess the proposers of this idea also feel that they should be the ones with the finger on the "DESTROY THE WORLD" button. There is no one on this planet, no one, that I would trust with that responsibility! There are already to many ways to destroy life as we know it on this planet, all we have to do is sit back and wait and do nothing.

 

Mel

...Darth Obama or Obama wan Kenobi- depends on which side you on

Yes, that would do! :lol: ..... Twin Ion Engines ...... the future!

 

......but remember, even with all the armoury and technology....... the Ewoks still 'owned' the Imperial Bad guys with just a few rocks and tree trunks! :wink:

 

The future's already here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_thruster#Operational_missions. Unfortunately in galaxies that aren't a long time ago and far far away ion engines produce absolutely pitiful amounts of thrust. For example the Dawn satellite, if it applies full power will accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in just 4 days! Perfectly fine for some applications, but not really suitable for a space fighter.

 

 

Doesn't surprise me since it was just discovered they were considering blowing up the moon in the 1960's to show off the Russians. No wonder our species is doomed!

 

They were just planning to detonate an atomic bomb on the moon, not blow the whole thing up. Still not the most sane of plans, but not quite as crazy as destroying the entire moon.

 

We need a Death Star? Good for jobs? Hmmmmmm! Take cover folks, the nuts are falling from the trees like hail. I guess the proposers of this idea also feel that they should be the ones with the finger on the "DESTROY THE WORLD" button. There is no one on this planet, no one, that I would trust with that responsibility! There are already to many ways to destroy life as we know it on this planet, all we have to do is sit back and wait and do nothing.

 

Mel

 

Or you know, the people that posted this petition and/or signed it were not being serious. It does happen sometimes .

The guy who started this whole fiasco just happens to be from CO... sheesh!

 

As I stated in the Denver Post article about this guy, A Death Star? Great! One problem, though... the US doesn't have a spacecraft!

 

What is it now... three months and about two or so weeks until 4/1/13?

 

He must be testing the water...

He must be testing the water...

 

Oh yes definitely, I don't think he thought his petition would go this far but goes to show how many Star Wars fans he could reach out to using social media to get that many signatures.

 

The petition is so far fetched that hopefully the White House can humour us with a satire response, at least that is how I would handle it, it would be good PR and a lot of fun from the usual day to day issues.

The guy who started this whole fiasco just happens to be from CO... sheesh!

 

As I stated in the Denver Post article about this guy, A Death Star? Great! One problem, though... the US doesn't have a spacecraft!

 

What is it now... three months and about two or so weeks until 4/1/13?

 

He must be testing the water...

 

We are working on spacecraft....... And a spaceport! Can the Death Star be far behind?

 

http://spaceportamerica.com/

Yes, Clutch, our speicies is doomed. So are all the others out there in space. Which is why project SETI and all the rest have failed for decades. I remember quite well when 'Our Weekly Reader' described the new radio telescopes that would surely find life out there before we reached high school. That was over 30 years ago. Actually we have been listening since the '30s as Hugo Gernbeck detailed in his various radio magazine written before the great depression of '29.

 

As soon as a species is intellegent, it will not survive very much longer. Science and technology has great power. If it ever goes wrong, and it alway does: "The End".

 

We ARE very lucky. We live in an age just barely past the primative times of struggling to survive in a jungle without medicine, and just before the time of whatever cataclism kills us all off.

L

Yes, Clutch, our speicies is doomed. So are all the others out there in space. Which is why project SETI and all the rest have failed for decades. I remember quite well when 'Our Weekly Reader' described the new radio telescopes that would surely find life out there before we reached high school. That was over 30 years ago. Actually we have been listening since the '30s as Hugo Gernbeck detailed in his various radio magazine written before the great depression of '29.

 

As soon as a species is intellegent, it will not survive very much longer. Science and technology has great power. If it ever goes wrong, and it alway does: "The End".

 

We ARE very lucky. We live in an age just barely past the primative times of struggling to survive in a jungle without medicine, and just before the time of whatever cataclism kills us all off.

 

That would be the "Technological Singularity"

 

http://en.wikipedia....cal_singularity

 

http://www.wired.com...e/8.04/joy.html

 

There is even a "Singularity Institute" composed of scientists and others working to save us.

 

http://singularity.o...he-singularity/