Obama Response to death star request

Bandana boy

A brain trust advised that what the US needed to do to recover from the depression was a "large" project.

Some genius suggested building the death star ,and it got a lot of support, enough on the whitehouse web page that they felt the need to respond

Those who sign here petition the United States government to secure funding and resources, and begin construction on a Death Star by 2016.

By focusing our defense resources into a space-superiority platform and weapon system such as a Death Star, the government can spur job creation in the fields of construction, engineering, space exploration, and more, and strengthen our national defense.

Commencing with the words "We petition the Obama administration to secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016," the petition was a fairly straightforward -- and hilarious -- request for the government to create a weapon capable of obliterating the likes of the planet Alderaan. The petition, created in Novemeber, garnered a little less than 35,000 signatures before the White House officially responded.

The response was awesome

By Paul Shawcross

The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn't on the horizon. Here are a few reasons:

• The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.

• The Administration does not support blowing up planets.

• Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?

However, look carefully (here's how) and you'll notice something already floating in the sky -- that's no Moon, it's a Space Station! Yes, we already have a giant, football field-sized International Space Station in orbit around the Earth that's helping us learn how humans can live and thrive in space for long durations. The Space Station has six astronauts -- American, Russian, and Canadian -- living in it right now, conducting research, learning how to live and work in space over long periods of time, routinely welcoming visiting spacecraft and repairing onboard garbage mashers, etc. We've also got two robot science labs -- one wielding a laser -- roving around Mars, looking at whether life ever existed on the Red Planet.

Keep in mind, space is no longer just government-only. Private American companies, through NASA's Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office (C3PO), are ferrying cargo -- and soon, crew -- to space for NASA, and are pursuing human missions to the Moon this decade.

Even though the United States doesn't have anything that can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, we've got two spacecraft leaving the Solar System and we're building a probe that will fly to the exterior layers of the Sun. We are discovering hundreds of new planets in other star systems and building a much more powerful successor to the Hubble Space Telescope that will see back to the early days of the universe.

We don't have a Death Star, but we do have floating robot assistants on the Space Station, a President who knows his way around a light saber and advanced (marshmallow) cannon, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is supporting research on building Luke's arm, floating droids, and quadruped walkers.

We are living in the future! Enjoy it. Or better yet, help build it by pursuing a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field. The President has held the first-ever White House science fairs and Astronomy Night on the South Lawn because he knows these domains are critical to our country's future, and to ensuring the United States continues leading the world in doing big things.

If you do pursue a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field, the Force will be with us! Remember, the Death Star's power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force.

Paul Shawcross is Chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget

I love his 3rd bullet point

Israel_Dagg

Dejavu?

DB21

Already posted

Chuck Stone

Such a PRopaganda response.

Fox_In_Socks

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Such a propaganda response.

I know what they're up to!

StinkyMunkey

I thought the response was quiet witty tbh.

It was a take the piss response to a take the piss petition IMO.

Feck the Death Star, I say world peace first

Lightbulb Sun

I suppose his drones are already effective enough to kill innocent Pakistanis.

MadYaker

Lightbulb Sun wrote: »

I suppose his drones are already effective enough to kill innocent Pakistanis.

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Sound of Silence

StinkyMunkey wrote: »

I thought the response was quiet witty tbh.

It was a take the piss response to a take the piss petition IMO.

Feck the Death Star, I say world peace first

Peace first, then all out War next!

I get you. They won't see it coming, those peace loving tree-huggers!

Riddle101

May the force be with the people who are opposed to this idiotic project. Although part of me things this is just a prank and not actually true. I just can't grasp the idea that someone could actually put forward and idea like that.

Then again, Perhaps the Sith have infiltratred the US Government.

Rubber_Soul

Riddle101 wrote: »

part of me things this is just a prank and not actually true.

Only a part of you?

Zomg Okay

Lightbulb Sun wrote: »

I suppose his drones are already effective enough to kill innocent Pakistanis.

Zero to "Let's hate on the Yanks again!" in one hour, thirty one minutes. Come on guys, you can do better than that.