Sign the Death Star Petition

[GoPackGo]

You have no vision

And boy, that Force Lightning sure smarts!!!

 

[Geosurface]

Just to treat this slightly seriously for a second, it wouldn't just be expenses... think of the massive amount of practical knowledge and experience that would be accrued by even attempting something like this. Applicable to all kinds of space endeavors of a more practical nature going forward.

A better example would be just trying to make a viable large scale space ship.

 

[JTsyo]

dude, that's just material cost.

yup, not sure if it was for 2 million death stars or just one. Also someone in the comments had posted the cost to lift all that steel to space. Though it seems we can build a Lego scaled version for $10 trillion in Lego costs.

 

[JTsyo]

That is gazillion right?

Quadrillion wiki says.

 

[Exterous]

A better example would be just trying to make a viable large scale space ship.

What? Please - we have a moon just sitting there not doing anything. Add some armor platting and a giant laser, maybe a vent shaft to the middle and we're done.

You say: That's no moon, its a space station
I say: Why can't it be both?

 

[nehalem256]

What? Please - we have a moon just sitting there not doing anything. Add some armor platting and a giant laser, maybe a vent shaft to the middle and we're done.

You say: That's no moon, its a space station
I say: Why can't it be both?

A couple hundred miles of rock is some pretty kick-ass armor platting.

 

[Exterous]

A couple hundred miles of rock is some pretty kick-ass armor platting.

Yes but the same rock that has been in the sky for thousands of years doesn't spark the same dread and feeling of bad assery as an armored platted moon. I'll bet we could contract that out to China if we really needed to. Rumor has it they have some decent prefabrication ability