Want to build a Death Star?

[Filmboydoug]

It will only cost you 13,000 times the worlds GDP. For the steel to build the structure. Labor and equipment extra!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/...culate-the-cost-of-building-a-Death-Star.html

 

[Bigerik]

Finally, a project we can all get behind!

 

[spaceman]

I think they're forgetting something important: if you send that much steel into space, you're gonna have a helluva big hole in Mother Earth. :nerd: :headscrat

 

[onepixel]

Dibs! I get to drive!

 

[Bigerik]

Shotgun!

 

[ebacon]

From the article:

The students also calculated that with all the iron in the earth, it would be possible to build just over 2 billion death stars.
They warned, however, that most of the iron is in the core of the planet.
They said: "Before you go off to start building your apocalyptic weapon, do bear in mind two things.
"Firstly, the two billion death stars is mostly from the Earth's core, which we would all really rather you didn't remove.

:lmao:

 

[Filmboydoug]

I just hope that in the 833,000 years it takes to build, we can get that exhaust port problem fixed.

 

[diamondsouled]

I think a Dyson Sphere would be a better idea :yes: :

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DysonSphere

http://arcana.wikidot.com/dyson-shell

 

[Numistrek09]

Only 833,000 years huh? Makes you wonder how they built one in only 20 in the interlude between Episode 3 and 4. And didn't the Enterprise D pick Scotty up off a Dyson sphere?

 

[AnalogDigit]

Darth must have paid for cheap labor. That is why the Jedi's were able to destroy it.

 

[bobabode]

ATT picked it up for scrap value..... it's parked in one of the lagrange points.

 

[Peter Walker]

I'm surprised that with economist's obsession with growth they hadn't assumed production techniques and conversion of elements one into another wouldn't have reached a point some time in the future where all speculation we might make about such things would resemble an amazonian native trying the imagine how Ford & General motors produce those metal things that move on their own.
The future, if our species survives, will be more bizarre than anything even science fiction can imagine.