Open Source Death Star Kickstarter Might Actually Work

[Mr.Squishy]

Well...if this thing *Does* go through, at least there'll be a lot of new job openings.

 

[FEichinger]

I can't believe someone was dumb enough to donate to that. Even if it is a joke and it will never reach it's goal it's still horrible that they managed to get more than $200,000. They should donate all the money to a charity.

The money is returned if it isn't fully funded, and if it is funded, we probably get a whole lot of legal funs with it. I'm looking forward to it.

 

[blalien]

This is stupid. The Death Star is impossible to construct with our current technology, if it's possible at all. And if they did build it, they'd run afoul of the same laws that prevent private companies from building nuclear weapons. I have no idea what they plan on doing with that money if they meet their goal.

 

[Andy Chalk]

It's no coincidence the Kickstarter is in the British currency; LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE! *imperial march plays*

Indeed.

 

[RicoADF]

Man, all this talk about monetary cost is entirely missing the point. There simply aren't enough raw materials on the planet Earth to build the Death Star.

Exactly, we would have to build a fleet of miners to strip the asteroid belt. oh and build it a safe distance away so the gravity doesn't effect earth. The US responce to the partition was funny, this is just silly.

 

[Triaed]

Are these the same people who read 50 Shades of whatever and line up outside Apple stores?
What a useless campaign for something with no use at all... then again, I am sure this has ever happened before

 

[Pyrian]

There simply aren't enough raw materials on the planet Earth to build the Death Star.

There are other planets.

I have no idea what they plan on doing with that money if they meet their goal.

Draw up some slightly more advanced blueprints to satisfy the contract, then retire to an island paradise with a bevy of concubines?

I can't believe someone was dumb enough to donate to that. Even if it is a joke and it will never reach it's goal it's still horrible that they managed to get more than $200,000. They should donate all the money to a charity.

Uh, they don't get any money, unless it reaches its goal, which it probably won't. If it does, then we can talk about donating to charity/bevies of concubines.

 

[Twilight_guy]

I know that people who donate have too much money and not enough sense... but if you want to get rid of your money so bad why not donate to charity? At least then you know its going to something good as opposed to whatever these guy eventually decide to do with the cash.

This isn't happening. The Death Star is the size of a moon and made out of metal. I don't know if that much metal even exists on Earth. It also blew up plants. Not even with all the nuclear bomb on Earth could we scratch the Earth. That laser is impossible.

Go home Star Wars fans, you're drunk.

 

[Skeggers]

Sometimes a joke stops being funny. This just stopped being funny.

 

[Ohlookit'sMatty]

I want this to happen for the pure joy of that it will get the Star Trek nerds off their asses and get us Warp drives

-M

 

[Mike the Bard]

Somebody needs to call the world's craziest millionaires and billionaires. We need their help.

We already asked them, they're too busy funding jet packs for their poodles.

 

[MrGalactus]

If they raise the £543,000,000,000,000,00, then they should just fuck the Death Star and donate to some African charities.
Deceptive charitability. It's the future.

 

[baconsarnie]

If they raise the £543,000,000,000,000,00, then they should just fuck the Death Star and donate to some African charities.
Deceptive charitability. It's the future.

I'm thinking 54 quadrilion is a bit more than charities could handle.
Is there even that much money in the world.

But seriously, why did they set the time for it to be funded so long. Yeah ok it's a joke, set the funding time limit to a week, any longer and people will forget about it anyway.

 

[MrGalactus]

If they raise the £543,000,000,000,000,00, then they should just fuck the Death Star and donate to some African charities.
Deceptive charitability. It's the future.

I'm thinking 54 quadrilion is a bit more than charities could handle.
Is there even that much money in the world.

But seriously, why did they set the time for it to be funded so long. Yeah ok it's a joke, set the funding time limit to a week, any longer and people will forget about it anyway.

Well, according to Wikipedia the GDP of the entire world is $70 Trillion, so we're probably pretty far off. Maybe.
I don't economics.
Oh, but charities should totally have a majority of the money on Earth. Sounds like a nice balance of power to me.

You know that wonderfully illogical part of your brain that clings on to the tiniest, most unlikely, outlandish shred of hope it can possibly find? That's probably why they're letting it go on for so long.

P.S. I read everything you typed in Christopher Lee's voice.

 

[Fluffythepoo]

Apple spends more than 10 times this designing ipods xD

 

[Kahani]

When countries are going bankrupt, I just can't stand for people actually putting money to this idea. It will seriously never happen with today's technology, so unless the kickstarter is to invent turbolasers and gravity panels and ion propulsion, money towards completing a blueprint is pointless.

This is stupid. The Death Star is impossible to construct with our current technology, if it's possible at all. And if they did build it, they'd run afoul of the same laws that prevent private companies from building nuclear weapons. I have no idea what they plan on doing with that money if they meet their goal.

I know that people who donate have too much money and not enough sense... but if you want to get rid of your money so bad why not donate to charity? At least then you know its going to something good as opposed to whatever these guy eventually decide to do with the cash.

This isn't happening. The Death Star is the size of a moon and made out of metal. I don't know if that much metal even exists on Earth. It also blew up plants. Not even with all the nuclear bomb on Earth could we scratch the Earth. That laser is impossible.

Go home Star Wars fans, you're drunk.

Are these the same people who read 50 Shades of whatever and line up outside Apple stores?
What a useless campaign for something with no use at all... then again, I am sure this has ever happened before

the primary challenge is to ensure everyone knows that this is actually a joke.

Indeed.

Let's make this as clear as possible to those suffering from a stunted humour gland - no money has been put towards this joke, no money will ever be put towards this joke, no-one has donated any money, the guy who set it up is not planning to do anything with the money, no-one cares that it would not actually be possible to build it, no starving children have lost anything or will ever lose anything because of this. Even if enough people joined in on the joke and it actually hit the funding level it would simply be cancelled before the time was up. Anyone complaining about this on the grounds that it's pointless, a waste of money, or not possible is, quite simply, an idiot.

For the record, no I haven't backed it. The joke has already been made, and pretending to donate money won't actually make it any funnier.

 

[StashAugustine]

"There had been many commanders who had seen the original Death Star as a blatant attempt to bring the Empire's vast military power more tightly under his direct control, just as he'd already done with its political power. The fact that he'd ignored the station's proven vulnerability and gone ahead with a second Death Star merely reinforced those suspicions. There would have been few in the Fleet's upper echelons who would have genuinely mourned its passing- if it hadn't, in its death throes, taken the Super Star Destroyer Executor with it."

Never mind the Death Star. A Star Destroyer is both more practical (you can call down targeted orbital bombardments rather than blowing up the planet, a crucial distinction when you live on the planet) and easier to make. Much cheaper as well. Put up a few in orbit and use them both as interplanetary shuttles and as artillery platforms. There you go.

 

[Triaed]

When countries are going bankrupt, I just can't stand for people actually putting money to this idea. It will seriously never happen with today's technology, so unless the kickstarter is to invent turbolasers and gravity panels and ion propulsion, money towards completing a blueprint is pointless.

This is stupid. The Death Star is impossible to construct with our current technology, if it's possible at all. And if they did build it, they'd run afoul of the same laws that prevent private companies from building nuclear weapons. I have no idea what they plan on doing with that money if they meet their goal.

I know that people who donate have too much money and not enough sense... but if you want to get rid of your money so bad why not donate to charity? At least then you know its going to something good as opposed to whatever these guy eventually decide to do with the cash.

This isn't happening. The Death Star is the size of a moon and made out of metal. I don't know if that much metal even exists on Earth. It also blew up plants. Not even with all the nuclear bomb on Earth could we scratch the Earth. That laser is impossible.

Go home Star Wars fans, you're drunk.

Are these the same people who read 50 Shades of whatever and line up outside Apple stores?
What a useless campaign for something with no use at all... then again, I am sure this has ever happened before

the primary challenge is to ensure everyone knows that this is actually a joke.

Indeed.

Let's make this as clear as possible to those suffering from a stunted humour gland - no money has been put towards this joke, no money will ever be put towards this joke, no-one has donated any money, the guy who set it up is not planning to do anything with the money, no-one cares that it would not actually be possible to build it, no starving children have lost anything or will ever lose anything because of this. Even if enough people joined in on the joke and it actually hit the funding level it would simply be cancelled before the time was up. Anyone complaining about this on the grounds that it's pointless, a waste of money, or not possible is, quite simply, an idiot.

For the record, no I haven't backed it. The joke has already been made, and pretending to donate money won't actually make it any funnier.

Although I don't mind jabs at my sense of humour or lack thereof (yes I am aware that this campaign is a joke and that no real Death Star will be built regardless of fan support), I do mind being called an idiot.

Welcome to the internet and all that...

 

[Jmp_man]

You'd need a planet cracking super laser to get the materials needed for a death star.

You mean to tell me we need a Death Star to fund the Death Star?
We need to start another Kickstarter to fund a Death Star to fund the Kickstarter for the Death Star. Yo Dawg?