The Death Star is probably one of the best-known space stations in the world of cinema. It is the place that the forces of the Empire built in the Star Wars universe to conquer planets or simply blow them into a thousand pieces with a single shot, so it could also be considered to be a weapon of mass destruction and therefore extremely dangerous.
Even so, for some people this does not seem to be any inconvenience, to the point that they were encouraged to write to Barack Obama, the former president of the United States, to ask him to The US government built its own Death Star. Yes, it may seem like it’s just a joke, but it was a real event that happened more than a decade ago.
Thousands of citizens of the American country joined together to start a signature collection campaign in which the petition was exactly that: the United States had to build the Death Star and have it ready by 2016. Normally, in a case like this the idea would have been ignored outright because it was so surreal, but the number of signatures that was collected was so massive that the government had no choice but to value it.
The goal established for these cases is 25,000 signatures and this particular petition gathered a total of 34,435 signatures, so Obama himself studied the possibility of carrying out such a huge project, but naturally He did not hesitate to make fun of this matter. and give a very comical response declining the request.
In this case, citizens indicated that a space station like the Death Star would serve to generate thousands of jobs and strengthen national defense, although the government directly answered that a project of this magnitude was not among its plans. could have cost a whopping amount of more than 850 billion dollars.
Furthermore, another reason why the proposal was rejected was because the explosion of planets was not supported. Still, the biggest reason of all was that Obama did not understand the need to spend that amount of money to a spaceship piloted by a single man could destroy it instantlymaking it clear that the former president saw Episode IV: A New Hope when mentioning Luke Skywalker’s feat to destroy the Death Star.
Likewise, in his response he commented that the United States does not have anything that can carry out the Kessel race in less than 12 parsecs, but it does have spacecraft and tools to discover hundreds of new planets, just as he admitted knowing perfectly well what a lightsaber, the androids and other mechanical elements, such as Luke’s arm, which are supported by scientists to investigate their construction.
In short, the statement stated that a Death Star may not be built, but its power is insignificant compared to the power of the Force that is in all of us. So, joy was in store for all those who signed the petition, whether because they really wanted it or wanted in on the joke.
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