白宮拒絕建造「死星」的呈請書
本帖最後由 MightyDragon 於 2013-1-13 06:04 PM 編輯上次看來純粹搞笑的「死星建造計劃呈請」，美國白宮終於有正式的回覆。結果當然是拒絕(廢話！)，原因是造價過高、完全不合乎現實：估計造價為850千萬億(一千的五次方)美元！雖然數目只由一班大學生所算出來，但相信即使計錯一兩個數量級也無所謂，反正結果決不是負債累累的美國政府所能承擔，而這呈請書的目的除為某小說電影作宣傳外就毫無意義...
Source: The Register
By Rik Myslewski in San Francisco
Original Title: White House rejects Death Star petition: '$850qn too pricey'
'This isn't the petition response you're looking for'
Posted in Bootnotes, 12th January 2013 18:12 GMT
Remember that "We the People" petition begun last month that asked the Obama administration to build a Star Wars–style Death Star? Well, the White House has responded with a witty rejoinder that essentially boils down to "Fuggedaboutit."
"The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense," writes Paul Shawcross, the White House headman of the OMB's science and space branch, "but a Death Star isn't on the horizon."
The Obama administration set up the "We the People" petition site to solicit opinions and promote discussion "on a range of important issues facing our country," and promised to respond to any petition that garnered over 25,000 signatories – which the Death Star petition did.
And so Shawcross has responded in a document headed in formal Washington bureaucratese as "OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE RESPONSE TO Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016". His response, entitled "This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For," is in this Reg reporter's opinion well-reasoned and unarguable. To wit:
White House response to Death Star petition
That's $850 quadrillion, in case you're having difficulty counting all those zeros
Shawcross' cost estimate, by the way, comes from a group of students at Lehigh University, who calculated the cost of building a Death Star to be approximately $852,000,000,000,000,000 – a full $2 quadrillion higher that the figure Shawcross cites. But, hey, this is Washington, where a couple of quadrillion bucks can be a rounding error.
After delivering the bad news, Obama's science and space budget analyst attempts to mollify the sure-to-be-disappointed petitioners, reminding them that "we already have a giant, football field-sized International Space Station in orbit around the Earth," and that NASA has a pair of robots roving around Mars, "one wielding a laser."
He also notes that although NASA is not yet able to "do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs," the future is wide open. "Help build it by pursuing a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field," he suggests, saying that if you do pursue those areas of study, the Force will be with you.
"Remember," Shawcross says, "the Death Star's power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force." ®
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等再過几億年太陽要把地球烤熟的時候沒錢也會有人造的
前提是人類能存活到那時候 美國在強也沒有這種能力及財力去建造，什麼時候才能完工又可以正常運作的東西?<br><br><br><br><br><div></div> 就算這玩意能破壞99%所有軍事力量
美國或中國也不會傻了去做這個.......
不知道什麼時候能完工 不知道能不能做出來
不枝到金錢到底要花多少
除非真的地球快不能住了,不然絕對不可能有這玩意出現
到時候就有賴全世界出資出力了~xd
美國真的很多原型模型圖很科幻阿.......
美國另一個強大理由來自於豐富想像力與豐富創造力? 這個比在月球做基地還要誇張吧
單單資金就是大問號
材料也是阿 不是正在造嗎? 人類不是正在改造地球嗎? 不是已有一個死星-月球在太空嗎? 這個太貴了 就算美國也沒這個財力
如果真要做才是腦子有問題! 挺搞笑的
只能說美國人太有創意，但這創意只能留給後代去完成
就像二戰德國的飛翼佈局戰機，直到半個世紀後才實現<br><br><br><br><br><div></div> 說不定美國已經擁有那種武器了！2040年就看美國的了！打一發就虛脫了 zz9394 發表於 2013-1-13 05:58 PM static/image/common/back.gif
等再過几億年太陽要把地球烤熟的時候沒錢也會有人造的
就算那時人類還存活著，且具備那種科技力量，我想人類也不會這樣做，因為與其這樣做，不如殖民到土星上比較實在。 mark6565 發表於 2013-1-14 12:10 PM static/image/common/back.gif
就算那時人類還存活著，且具備那種科技力量，我想人類也不會這樣做，因為與其這樣做，不如殖民到土星上比 ...
太陽系都沒了你到土星上吃土去啊 美國所謂的死星 應該是針對火星 目前美國就有移民計劃 按照星球大戰的樣子去建造死星，他們沒有發現星球大戰里面的死星戰斗力破表防御力爛的可憐麼。再說了$852,000,000,000,000,000 = 再把地球掠奪2遍也很難湊得夠啊。這種事還是請美國人民想想就好了，這簡直就是痴人說夢。<br><br><br><br><br><div></div>