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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?"

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  1. Remove the obvious structural weaknesses by DaemonDan · · Score: 5, Funny

    No more shafts leading directly to the core, please.

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    1. Re:Remove the obvious structural weaknesses by TFAFalcon · · Score: 5, Interesting

      They already fixed that on the Endor variant (they just had a lousy slow contractor building it).

      My vote is that they add an exterminator or two to the crew. I hear the first Death Star had quite a pest problem in it's garbage compactors.

    2. 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 ....

    3. Re:Remove the obvious structural weaknesses by bondsbw · · Score: 5, Funny

      Such as the White House?

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    4. Re:Remove the obvious structural weaknesses by tonywong · · Score: 5, Funny

      iFixit will give the new Death Star a repairability rating lower than the new iMac, then.

    5. Re:Remove the obvious structural weaknesses by Savage-Rabbit · · Score: 5, Funny

      No more shafts leading directly to the core, please.

      They already fixed that on the Endor variant (they just had a lousy slow contractor building it).

      My vote is that they add an exterminator or two to the crew. I hear the first Death Star had quite a pest problem in it's garbage compactors.

      What none of you realise is that we are about to witness yet another round of trials and tests of the new death star concept demonstrator, the USS Apophis. They only made it look like an Asteroid to fool the Chinese. This has been common knowledge among UFOlogists for years now.

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    6. Re:Remove the obvious structural weaknesses by aix+tom · · Score: 5, Funny

      Don't remind me about Alderaan.

      Put your money in the Bank of Aldreaan, they said. Safest bank in the universe, they said. They'd have to to blow up the entire planet to get in there, they said.

  2. The White House should be all: by smittyoneeach · · Score: 5, Funny

    "What, our Debt Star isn't enough? Don't try to out-greed us, peasants."

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  3. Re:"Must respond?" Hardly by Mitreya · · Score: 5, Informative

    They don't actually *have* to respond, just because there are the required number of signatures. They've ignored many of these petitions, most recently those petitions regarding state secession following the November elections.

    Petition for "please dismantle TSA" got a response written by the director of the TSA. Surprisingly, he wrote how awesome and useful TSA is.

    I know!
    Let's start a petition asking to take our petitions seriously and not in the most condescending and patronizing manner possible.

  4. 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.