APPARENTLY IT DOESN'T COST ENOUGH
White House nixes calls for $850-quadrillion ‘Death Star’
(Thanks to The Perts and john harris)
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January 12, 2013
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Posted by: manual tomato | January 12, 2013 at 10:57 AM
They also said they were too busy with a budget. Now, which was the fictional project?
Posted by: Loudmouth | January 12, 2013 at 10:59 AM
"We don't destroy other planets."
Yeah, stick that in Uranus.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | January 12, 2013 at 11:16 AM
Well, then WHAT are they building on the dark side of the Moon?
Posted by: Horace LaBadie | January 12, 2013 at 12:21 PM
This White House needs no help spending vast amounts of money on a ponderous, bureaucratic monstrosity populated by thousands of worker drones and notable for all the hot air coming out of its
orifice, I mean "exhaust port"...Posted by: Allen at Division | January 12, 2013 at 12:22 PM
Strange. I thought ownership of a fully functioning Death Star was written into your second amendment...
Posted by: Stanley Madeley | January 12, 2013 at 01:07 PM
If you haven't actually looked at the announcement, you've utterly missed this story.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-response-youre-looking
Best. Official White House communique. EVER.
Posted by: Jonathan Turner | January 12, 2013 at 01:27 PM
Petitition response.
•Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?
Great.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | January 12, 2013 at 04:13 PM
It's nice to know a nutty idea actually exists that's too expensive for them.
Posted by: Clankie | January 12, 2013 at 04:59 PM
Such a project would create many jobs and an unprecedented opportunity for political pork wrangling within Congress.
Later on, as the Death Star (DS) neared completion, there would be protracted debate within the leadership of the Rebel Forces on whether it was morally acceptable to destroy the DS prior to it becoming operational as an attack on the still incomplete DS would put the lives of many electricians, carpenters and welders at great risk while not affecting Imperial Forces.
Posted by: Marc | January 12, 2013 at 05:59 PM
I thought Dave copyrighted the word "quadrillion," along with "gajillion."
Posted by: wanderer2575 | January 12, 2013 at 07:39 PM
Dick Cheney will be sooooo disappointed.
Posted by: padraig | January 12, 2013 at 11:26 PM
I'm all for it. So long as the Tea Party never gets within a gajillion miles of the thing.
Posted by: Steve | January 13, 2013 at 10:23 AM
"We don't destroy other planets."
Yeah, tell that to Pluto!
Posted by: BevfromNYC | January 13, 2013 at 12:18 PM
One $850-quadrillion dollar platinum coin would pay for the whole thing.
Posted by: Gregg in Baton Rouge | January 13, 2013 at 08:55 PM