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Wat OT,I mean WAY OT ( The True Cost of the Death Star )

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This one is for Star Wars lovers out there: Economics students at Lehigh University have estimated it would cost $852 quadrillion -- that's 12 zeroes -- to buy all the steel needed to build the Death Star, the moon-sized weapon that Luke Skywalker blows up at the end of the original Star Wars film.



The blog post brought to mind a great graphic that our colleagues at The Huntsville Times once made, comparing the size of the Saturn V rocket to various Star Wars spaceships.



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  • corvette1340corvette1340 Posts: 3,384 ✭✭✭
    Appraisal on the death star was 852 quadrillion 4 years ago, but in this economy I can probably get it built for $60 per square foot.
  • benderbroethbenderbroeth Posts: 1,699 ✭✭
    not of topic at all!!!

    (i am nerdy too)
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  • vladguerrerovladguerrero Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭
    Please put it in terms this board would understand... how many 52 Mantles,T206 Wagners, or 10-11 Lin's would that cost?
  • handymanhandyman Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Might cost more if people know they need the steel to build the star ship. Im not selling until they are 60% done!
  • Bosox1976Bosox1976 Posts: 8,564 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>it would cost $852 quadrillion >>



    That, my friend, is why we conquer worlds and subjugate the meek. Sun Tzu wrote the book, and Tarkin read it.
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  • GolfcollectorGolfcollector Posts: 1,369 ✭✭✭
    My favorite character in all of Star Wars...

    Grand Moff Tarkin.

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  • lahmejoonlahmejoon Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭✭
    Many Bothan spies died to bring us this information.
  • BrickBrick Posts: 4,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Are you accounting for costs overruns? Don't think you can get it done at that price.
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  • TNP777TNP777 Posts: 5,710 ✭✭✭
    Were union droids used in that analysis?

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  • captainthreeputtcaptainthreeputt Posts: 1,235 ✭✭
    I think my son just put the death star lego set together. My wife bought it for him, I hope it was a little cheaper!
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  • nightcrawlernightcrawler Posts: 5,110 ✭✭

    I've always wondered how many pounds of welding rod they used.
  • VitoCo1972VitoCo1972 Posts: 6,132 ✭✭✭
    Think the average stormtrooper knows how to install a toilet main? All they know is killing in white uniforms. I bet they brought in independent contractors on that gig.

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  • NickMNickM Posts: 4,895 ✭✭✭
    Negotiating the contracts on one side - lawyers for 36 galactic tradescreatures unions.
    Negotiating the contracts on the other side - Darth Vader.

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  • KeepItWarmKeepItWarm Posts: 579 ✭
    As someone who has only seen the first star wars one time (in the movie theatre in 1977) and none of the other 5 movies... this thread has PEGGED the Nerd-O-Meter....

    NERDS!!!!

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  • 72skywalker72skywalker Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭
    The movie clerks brough up a topic about all the deaths of civilains that were aboard the death star when it blew. I thought it was a good point until I read a book called "Death star" and it said that only violent crinimals were used in the construction so that all the deaths after Luke blew it up were justified. Just the kind of things i think about during the day.
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  • 72skywalker72skywalker Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭


    << <i>As someone who has only seen the first star wars one time (in the movie theatre in 1977) and none of the other 5 movies... this thread has PEGGED the Nerd-O-Meter....

    NERDS!!!! >>



    Where do threads of collections of pictures of men fall on the Nerd-O- Meter???
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  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    Han. Shot. First. Period.
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • gregmo32gregmo32 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭
    Well what is the cost of Alderaan?
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  • lahmejoonlahmejoon Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Han. Shot. First. Period. >>



    Biggest Lucas failure EVER.
  • 72skywalker72skywalker Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Han. Shot. First. Period. >>



    Biggest Lucas failure EVER. >>



    Lucas said in interviews that Greedo always shot first and that it just was never shown that way in the original film. I still don't buy it.
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  • PorkinsPorkins Posts: 615 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>Han. Shot. First. Period. >>



    Biggest Lucas failure EVER. >>



    Lucas said in interviews that Greedo always shot first and that it just was never shown that way in the original film. I still don't buy it. >>



    I don't buy it either... Remember in Empire Boba Fett says about Han "He's no good to me dead." So why would Greedo want to haul Han's corpse to Jabba?
  • CWCW Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭
    Wow, all that money to build it, and they still left in a 2 meter wide
    exhaust vent design flaw which allowed the whole thing to be blown up.
  • LodiBrewFanLodiBrewFan Posts: 564 ✭
    Not enough money left for one last man hole cover!
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  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>Han. Shot. First. Period. >>



    Biggest Lucas failure EVER. >>



    Lucas said in interviews that Greedo always shot first and that it just was never shown that way in the original film. I still don't buy it. >>



    Lucas has an established pattern of revising history to his liking.

    edit: Technically, it is his 'history' and can do what he wants with it, even if it is against the fans' wishes.

    edited again: And those said fans have made Lucas hundreds of millions of dollars (and still counting).

    edited one more time: But I'm not bitter or anything.
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • recbballrecbball Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭
    Clerks on the Death Star
  • kmnortonkmnorton Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭
    One of my favorite bits ever by Eddie Izzard put to Legos.

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  • CWCW Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭
    Death Star design flaws - Family Guy clip
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