Ridiculously enough, President Obama’s administration has recently had to pen an official response to an online petition for the United States of America to build a Death Star in the next three years. People who signed the petition claimed that a Death Star would create new jobs and scare everyone in the universe. It turned out that the online petition collected enough signatures to require the White House to take it into consideration and to draft a response.
A person responsible for response was Paul Shawcross, Chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget. He tried to remain serious and explain that while the Obama’s office shares the desire for job creation and strong national defense, they won’t build a Death Star in the nearest future.
The first reason indicated in the response was the cost. The matter is that the construction of the Death Star is estimated to cost over $850,000,000,000,000,000, which is hardly a good investment right now, when the country is trying to reduce the deficit.
The Obama’s Office also doesn’t support blowing up planets as an instrument of foreign policy. Nor it makes sense to spend taxpayer’s money on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw which can be exploited by a one-man fighter. Paul Shawcross noted that even though the US doesn’t have anything able to do the Kessel Run in less than a dozen parsecs, the country has got two spacecrafts leaving the Solar System and the scientists are building a probe which will fly to the exterior layers of the Sun. Apparently, the petitioners should remain satisfied with such response.
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