A Death Star? that will be $15.6 Septillion dollars Lord Vader - Geek calculates the cost of an actu - Polidicks

[quote]A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, another military superpower spent way too much money on massive planet-busting weapons that didn’t work well. Maybe the Defense Department could learn something from this before it finds an X-wing crammed up its thermal-exhaust port. Meet the biggest cautionary tale in the world of defense procurement: the Death Star. Thanks to the Pentagon’s in-house acquisition journal, Defense AT&L Magazine — not usually a venue for fan fic — we have a detailed explanation as to why. Air Force Lt. Col. Dan Ward provides a nerdy-but-accurate examination of the Empire’s acquisition flaws in building the moon-sized death ray: [i]in the Star Wars universe, robots are self-aware, every ship has its own gravity, Jedi Knights use the Force, tiny green Muppets are formidable warriors and a piece of junk like the Millennium Falcon can make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. But even the florid imagination of George Lucas could not envision a project like the Death Star coming in on time, on budget.[i] The Empire’s answer to Ash Carter should have seen it coming. It’s embarrassing enough that the galaxy’s supposedly most fearsome weapon was felled by crappy duct work. But it was entirely predictable. A project so big and complex, Ward writes, will invariably stretch the oversight capabilities of acquisition staff. In this case, it led to manufacturing delays and prevented the Empire from realizing that one of its thermal-exhaust ports was a de facto self-destruct button. Moreover, for all the expense poured into it – $15.6 septillion and 94 cents, to be precise — the Death Star is destroyed twice, and in its two iterations only ever manages to get off a few shots.[/quote] Source:[url]http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/death-star-pentagon[/url] Found the article off this brilliant website: [url]http://www.grahamhancock.com/news/index.php?pg=2[/url] [img]http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2011/09/Deathstar-inquizition.jpg[/img]

Someone had way too much time on their hands.

Jeeze.. Where do I donate?

Worth it.

[QUOTE=WeekendWarrior;32320671]Someone had way too much time on their hands.[/QUOTE] [i]Or not enough![/i]

What about the Death Star II? How much would that cost with its advanced targeting system, bigger size, and its own shield generator to protect during construction?

:10bux: I can bring it down to four hundred billion, 50 million tonnes of Carbon and Hydrogen, and the orbital momentum of Mars.

wicked now we just need to build it

How the hell did he work that out?

and 94 cents ? Really ?

I know, he should have calculated it in credits.

Let's start building now. Just throw money at NASA to make it the new ISS.

Awesome. I'll take 8.

We'll just borrow a few septillion from the Chinese. :v:

[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;32321707]We'll just borrow a few septillion from the Chinese. :v:[/QUOTE]They'll sell out and make cheap shitty parts for your death star.

[QUOTE=faze;32321717]They'll sell out and make cheap shitty parts for your death star.[/QUOTE] We already have those [IMG]http://www.itrecycled.com/shop/images/P/Hitachi%200y30002.jpg[/IMG] Kudos to those who knows what I'm talking about.

$15,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.94 = Death Star.

That's only 268 billions years of 2009's GDP of the whole earth.

Oh, and that doesn't include weapon systems and thrusters, etc.

Septillions? There are not enough money in the world to make a single septillion dollars, I bet..

Pshh, if you read [url=http://www.amazon.com/Death-Star-Wars-Michael-Reaves/dp/034547743X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1316197695&sr=8-3]Death Star[/url], you'd know it's a lot cheaper to use slave labor once Obama becomes emperor.

[QUOTE=B!N4RY;32321731]We already have those [IMG]http://www.itrecycled.com/shop/images/P/Hitachi%200y30002.jpg[/IMG] Kudos to those who knows what I'm talking about.[/QUOTE] I have a 250Gb one of those, working after 4 years v:v:v

Let's not forget the money and time spent developing the weapon system itself.

Has that much money even been printed yet oh god

[QUOTE=evilweazel;32322886]Has that much money even been printed yet oh god[/QUOTE]Probably all of the money together across the world with every country combined since we started using currency.

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;32321859]That's only 268 billions years of 2009's GDP of the whole earth.[/QUOTE] Well we better start saving then

Orly? World is gonna go bankrupt. Maybe just make a death gun that shoots fusion bombs.

If you want to really get nerdy, you could argue that figure is based off of using materials from the moon/mars/earth, and transporting it all. I bet you could cut that figure down to under 50 septillion dollars by simply taking a moon from saturn or jupiter and converting it. It also probably doesn't take into account that the entire thing could probably be managed by only 100,000 human workers controlling millions of robots, and instead thinks of millions of human workers. I know it doesn't state that, but I can't imagine it'd cost that much when most of the process could simply be mining/converting instead of building. In fact, it could even be built faster than the death star and be more effectively manned by less workers if you didn't make so many damn hallways.

Vada' was a playa', what can I say?

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