In a video on Wired, Brian Muirhead, chief engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, illustrates how the Asteroid Redirect Mission will look at the feasibility of asteroid mining, and although the mission doesn’t exactly show you how to build a Death Star, it will do something nobody has done before. The trick is to mine asteroids and use the material to construct the Death Star directly in space. Not everyone is impressed by the White House's geek-play, however.For all you boys and girls who dream of one day ruling the galaxy with a tremendous weapon of mass destruction, NASA has some suggestions for you. Not only is the whole thing "funny and compelling," says John Timmer at Ars Technica, but as a shining piece of PR it establishes "Obama's cultural credentials as a science and sci-fi enthusiast." You can tell it's a "super-geeky labor of love," says Gregory Ferenstein at TechCrunch.
"Remember," he concludes, "the Death Star's power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force." Shawcross ends with a call for star-gazing youngsters "to pursue a career in science, technology, or math-related field" to ensure the United States' position as a space leader. Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that could be exploited by a one-man starship? The administration does not support blowing up planets.3. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.2. The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. In a post titled " This isn't the petition response you're looking for," Paul Shawcross, Chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget, outlines a few reasons why construction of a Death Star simply isn't in the best interest of the country.
government begin construction on a Death Star to be completed by 2016. Over the weekend, the White House indulged Star Wars fans by issuing an official response to a popular request - that the U.S. This being the internet and all, requests naturally tilt toward the edges: A petition for President Obama's impeachment, federally legalized marijuana, secession appeals, and a nationalized Twinkie industry. Anyone with an agenda and 25,000 signatures can elicit an official response from the White House's " We the People" website.
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