Death Star Supporters Head to Kickstarter

It seems that the US government has not found the building of a Star Wars Death Star practical.  However the supporters are far from deterred!  Supporters have turned to the crowd funding project Kickstarter to raise the 31 million it would take to design the thing.

So far their efforts have raised 31 thousand dollars!  But as NBCNEWS.COM points out in their article:

• The funding deadline? April Fool's Day. 

Of course 31 million only gets you plans on "how to build a Death Star" because the cost of a functional "Star" would set you back a whopping $850 quadrillion!  

Of course the odd man out in this stunt is Kickstarter itself.  I suspect they are not finding the "april fool" at all funny......

NBCNEWS.COM story

How much for the Death Start?

I love people that have way to much free time on their hands and apply that time to well, somewhat less than useful pursuits. For example, I was reading in Gizmodo about Ryszard Gold who determined what it would cost in 2008 dollars to build and supply the Star Wars "Death Star"

There's way more numbers there than I want to copy here, but suffice it to say that if you had a spare 15.6 septillion you could have one of these bad boys for your very own.

How much is 15.6 septillion? Well according to the article:

• that's a whooping 1.4 trillion times the current US Debt. Or a sightly more meaningful number: 124 trillion years of war in Iraq.

daaaaaaaaaaaaamn

Well for a giggle, here is the link with all the numbers...It really is quite an exercise.