Since the
White House has pledged to respond to any petition that gets 25,000
signatures in 30 days, they were forced to give a response to one that
got over 30,000. A petition to build the iconic battle station the
"Death Star" from the movie Star Wars by 2016.
Keeping true to their promise, the White house issued a statement and basically said that they would not have enough money in their budget to even think about this idea. It has been estimated to cost about $850 QUADRILLION US dollars, which is $850,000,000,000,000,000.
In addition to the cost,
the fact that the United States is not interested in blowing up planets
and the fact that it can be taken out by a single X-Wing fighter ship
was brought up.
It
was cool to see the White House actually respond to this petition, even
if it was ridiculous. Also, the fact that they had fun with it by
bringing up how it can be taken out by an X-Wing fighter ship was pretty
funny as well, I thought.
The
White House also tried to calm the mind of the Death Star petition
signers, by telling them that we already live in the future! With a $100 million (what a
deal!) orbiting space station, among other things. But
all this story does is make me wonder what other kind of petitions
people are going to come up with in the future... the petition to build
the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek is already at 5,973 signatures.
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