Colorado Man Petitions White House To Build A Death Star

While politicians argue about spending cuts and job creation, one man from Longmont, Colorado has been actively trying to get the White House to build our very own “Death Star”.

And believe it or not, he got enough signatures to earn a White House review of the project.

According to KMGH, a man who goes by the name of “John D” posted the petition on the White House website and more than 29,000 have now signed it, more than meeting the 25,000 signature threshold needed to put it to review.

The petition reads:

We petition the obama administration to:

Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016.

Those who sign here petition the United States government to secure funding and resources, and begin construction on a Death Star by 2016.

By focusing our defense resources into a space-superiority platform and weapon system such as a Death Star, the government can spur job creation in the fields of construction, engineering, space exploration, and more, and strengthen our national defense.

If you don’t know what a “Death Star” is, I will assume you have been living under a rock since 1977. (It is the “Ultimate Weapon” in the Star Wars saga.)

As much as the Star Wars-geek in me wants to be excited for this, it just seems like a waste of time and probably a waste of taxpayer money if politicians are forced to actually debate the pros and cons of designing a Death Star.

First of all, we are nowhere near technologically advanced enough to even think about building such a thing. Secondly, can you imagine how much that thing would cost to build? (According to Forbes, the steel alone would cost $852,000,000,000,000,000, that’s more than 13,000 times the world’s GDP and that number has three more decimal places than our ridiculously high national debt.)

Plus, would you actually want any of the governments on earth to be able to wipe out en entire planet with the push of a button?

No thanks.

I wish stuff from sci-fi movies was real too, but there is this small thing standing in the way...it’s called reality. And our elected leaders are more than capable of inventing ways to waste their time and our money all by themselves, without us feeding them ideas like this.