White House Rejects Death Star Petition.

[LazarX]

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It starts like this and only gets better.

This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For

By Paul Shawcross

The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn't on the horizon. Here are a few reasons:

The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.
The Administration does not support blowing up planets.
Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?

[Moro]

Awesome response, I appreciate that those responding understand that it is okay to have a sense of humour.

[Aberzombie]

Clearly, George Lucas' insidious plan to inundate all aspects of life with Star Wars fans in an effort to overwhelm the Star Trek fans is working.

[BigNorseWolf]

Obviously, the Obama administration is against planetary defense.

WHY DO YOU HATE THE EARTH!?!?

[Lord Snow]

BigNorseWolf wrote:

Obviously, the Obama administration is against planetary defense.

WHY DO YOU HATE THE EARTH!?!?

Not that it matters anyway. Now that we have a black president who has declared in public that he is in favour of same sex marrige, we can expect the doomsday to come any day now. Might as well not even try to develop a superweapon to save us, given that the wrath of God is by definiton unmatched in this universe.

Amen.

[Jean-Paul Sartre, Intrnet Troll]

God's power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force.

[Spanky the Leprechaun]

yd just goes back to the ole drawing board....

[Sissyl]

Nah, the death star should be fine as long as you:

Keep the DATA TAPES safe, and

Avoid shafts from the presidential throne room straight into the reactor core.

[CapeCodRPGer]

If the death star plans fell into the wrong hands...

[TriOmegaZero]

If you strike down this petition, it will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

[Shadowborn]

What the White House isn't telling us is that NASA's proposed FTL drive is essentially a prototype for a weapon just as dangerous as the Death Star.

[yellowdingo]

850 thousand trillion? that's nothing...

one million siemens 6 megawatt wind turbines x 25 million dollars = 25 trillion dollars over ten years. Energy production: 6000kwh x 20 years (188,160 hours) = 1,128,960,000 x 1 million turbines = 1,128,960,000,000,000 x .20 dollars per kwh = 225,792,000,000,000 dollars.

So 200 trillion dollars income from 1 million 6 megawatt wind turbines over 20 years. You could have that Death star in a hundred years.