https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/secure-resources-and-funding-and-begin-construction-death-star-2016/wlfKzFkN Please don't blow up Earth! We all love the US, honest! :))

Damn it, America, why are we so good at joke petitions? But not at things that matter? :(

You mean, build another one?

Tempted to make a petition to have a mold of my junk immortalized on top of White House.

Dunno, but I need a hug and a drink just thinking about it.

Whelp, time to join the rebel alliance.

Unless they start making TIE fighters, because then fuck those hippies, I'm joining the Inner Circle.

You thought the moon was a moon?
Nope, death star.

That's no moon

indeed

If USA is going to build the Death Star, well I suppose I have to petition Japan to build Unicorn in response.

As with many things, the Russians already beat the Americans to it back in 1987.

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyus_(spacecraft]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyus_(spacecraft[/url]) - according to the wiki, the only on-board weapon that it had was a high-energy carbon-dioxide laser, though in other places I've read, it was fitted with missiles/chaff for defence, and a large recoilless cannon intended to destroy high-altitude aircraft.

From a technical perspective, it's a shame it failed to reach a proper orbit; from a socio-political perspective, it's probably a good thing it didn't.

Edit: Oh, and it apparently carried nuclear space mines too: http://www.astronautix.com/craft/polyus.htm

The Alliance is already planning its destruction :D, hurra for Mon Mathma!

Because real change would take a massive effort or country-wide revolt and many people are too lazy/scared to try it(Or too comfortable/happy with the way things are.)?

(Most people also realize that protesting is usually ineffectual due to crap protesting regulations and the fact that many politicians sadly just don't give a damn about them or their causes.)

I remember I once saw potential in Occupy as a group with enough power to make changes, so I got in contact with some event organizers to see how I could use them to my benefit (I'm evil like that :P) and immediately found out that their high level members were no better then the government they protested against, it was sickening really.

On one hand, money is of no concern when it comes to the US funding military endeavors. On the other, building a Death Star would more than double the funding towards NASA, and I think they'd sooner nuke the entire planet twice than do that.

It's hard to say what exactly would happen, but it goes without saying that if they were to build a Death Star, it would undoubtedly have some sort of exploitable structural weakness. It would also be filled to the brim with garbage, because as long as we're sending something as huge as a Death Star into space, there are plenty of corporations that would pay good money to dump their trash into the void of space, and there's simply no way we'd fund a Death Star in the first place without that money.