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[SFR]Kremi
PostPosted: 24/2/2012 5:09    Post subject:
Bloody students wasting all that time and money coming up with ridiculous figures.
Every one knows you could build a Death Star out of Lego in a fraqction of that time and at a fraction of the cost wink .

And here it is : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lego-Star-Wars-Death/dp/B002EEP3NO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330081873&sr=8-1
[SFR]Podge
PostPosted: 23/2/2012 12:28    Post subject:
dont forget to triple the cost because you'll need to iron out the design flaws lest some farmer with a slingshot fire a marble up your exhaust port
[SFR]Osto
PostPosted: 23/2/2012 11:57    Post subject: Re: How much would it cost to build a Death Star?
[SFR]Kelamity wrote:

Who knew ruling the galaxy with an iron fist would be so expensive!



Could you afford an iron fist after building a Death Star?
[SFR]Kelamity
PostPosted: 23/2/2012 11:54    Post subject: How much would it cost to build a Death Star?
Ever wondered how much your very own Death Star would cost? Now, thanks to some boffins from Lehigh University, you don’t have to.

The students, who run their own blog called Centives, look at the “fun and quirky side of economics” and have estimated that the cost of building the massive space station would be $852,000,000,000,000,000 (£543,511,248,000,000,060).

Most of the Earth’s core would also be needed to produce the necessary steel for the project.

Sean Goodwin, who wrote the article with Anjan Gupta, said: “The interest in the article from me stemmed from watching space battles in ‘Star Wars’ and wondering ‘Can we really build those things? Is there actually enough metal in the world to make a starfleet?’

“If I'm honest, the price of the Death Star was something of an afterthought to the question of "is it possible?"

They worked the cost out by using the reported measurement of the planet-destroying Imperial base (140km diameter) and comparing it to a modern warship to find the density of steel. The evil Galactic empire would need 1.08 x 1015 tonnes of the stuff.

Even if we could somehow harvest our planet’s own core (some might argue that destroying our planet for the sake of building a Death Star is stupid) it would take 833,315 years to produce the steel required.

Overall the project would cost $852 quadrillion as mentioned, a sum that is roughly 13,000 times the world’s gross domestic product (GDP).

Who knew ruling the galaxy with an iron fist would be so expensive!


Who wants to buy me one for Christmas? envy
 
 
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