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White House Must Answer Petition To 'Build Death Star'

Posted by Soulskill on from the fully-operational-boondoggle dept.

EdIII writes "The White House petition to secure funding for building the Death Star has garnered over 25,000 signatures, which means the White House must officially respond. I can't wait to see it. My question to Slashdot readers: what modifications would you add to the proposed Death Star? Obviously, as one journalist put it, 'guardrails around any of the facility's seemingly endless number of bridges, spans, shafts and pits.' What other changes would you ask your representatives to make?"

2 of 384 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Remove the obvious structural weaknesses by hectorh · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For the same reason smoke stacks and ventilation ducts have the least number of turns and bends: any obstruction creates back-pressure ... and back pressure is something you don't want when you are trying to dissipate excess heat during a SCRAM.

    Then again ... whoever thought they could hit a 1.5 meter target while travelling at 250+ meters / second ....

  2. Re:This by Xebikr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No. It just shows that Americans are taking Obama's online petitions just as seriously as he does.