A Canadian man has figured out it would cost roughly $15 septillion (24 zeros) to build a "Star Wars"-style Death Star.Rysvard Gold, a self-described Web designer and "outlandish thinker," came to this daunting figure by calculating the amount of raw material that it would take to build a moon-sized space station, and multiplying it by the cost of getting this material into space. Gold concedes he doesn't even consider not-insignificant costs such as labor and trekking the steel around once it is blasted into the great beyond.
Unfortunately, $15 septillion is about a trillion times the current value of the entire Earth, so our lobbying effort to have a Death Star included in the U.S. stimulus package may be in vain.
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Friday 06 February
By Sig
I'll donate to THAT cause.... as long as NASA's not in charge!
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Thursday 12 March
By Min
Yeah, don't want the whole "I did the calculations in feet but programmed in meters" thing to happen again, especially not on something as friggin awesome as the death star.
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