Building A Death Star To Create Us Jobs

[LazyGun]

The White House recently received a petition, signed by around 35K people, to build a Death Star a la Star Wars.

The White House offered a nuanced response;

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/secure-resources-and-funding-and-begin-construction-death-star-2016/wlfKzFkN

which included this line "Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?"

It is a pity humour cannot be used more frequently in politics :)

[dotty.]

it's like Dr Hawking says, we need to find a leap frog planet within the next 50 - 100 years to enable us to begin to move on, the time it will take to develop the technology to move the entire earth's population means we've got to get crackin

[Zacs-Master]

We have around 4.5 Billion years before the sun consumes the Earth, so there's no great rush. Anyway, that wasn't what the OP was about.

[sunny-dave]

botox it is ...

[sunny-dave]

Oh gonads - how I lurve the sweary word filter ...

[bibblebub]

who wants to be called Grand Moff ?

[LazyGun]

heh

I like the humour displayed on both sides. It would be nice to see more evidence of that kind of humour in our day to day political discourse :)

[The Builder]

Modern politicians could learn from Aristotle........ but then, I guess we all could......

"Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."

[LazyGun]

@Builder - Never heard that particular gem from Aristotle before - the man certainly had a way with words...

[Old_Geezer]

I watched Family Guy, I know the flaw is fixable, just don't waste time getting quotes.

We may run out of fuel here before 4.5 billion years have passed. Need to have started this project last century if we don't wish to get stuck. Any chance of doing the time machine project first ?

Anyway any project that stimulates the economy has to be worth considering in this day and age. Beats digging holes in the road and then filling them back in.

[humbersloop]

brilliant reply, especially

//a President who knows his way around a light sabre//

applauds

[Zacs-Master]

'Need to have started this project last century'
Unfortunately we have, at the moment, no sound scientific basis on which to start an interstellar journey or indeed a feasible destination to aim for.

[Zacs-Master]

Interstellar journey PROJECT. Sorry.

[Old_Geezer]

We will have by the time the time machine's been built.

[jno]

couldn't they at least develop a gene that will give us all Darth Vader voices?