There's that Death Star in the distance an NBA-ready recruiting class like none ever assembled.
That Death Star must have had some very large batteries in those reactor rooms.
It is well ahead of the Death Star petition, which I found irresistible.
There's critical mass, and then there's Facebook, the Death Star that deflects every effort to blow it up.
For the Death Star petition, for instance, URL shortener bit.ly registered 268, 406 clicks on its links leading to page.
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Do we really want to live in a world where the president makes the call on building the Death Star?
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And it gets bigger a new online venture, temporarily named T2 but called the Death Star by some in the world of travel agents.
The Pittsburgh native played Admiral Motti in the 1977 film, the disdainful Death Star commander whose "lack of faith" Vader found "disturbing".
For all I know, Goldman is indeed the Death Star of global capitalism and its executives light their cigars with SEC regulations.
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Still, with arch-rival Intel looming over it like a corporate Death Star, AMD has posted some pretty ugly numbers over recent years.
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Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?
The Death Star, officially called the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, is a piece of fiction (so far) which appeared in the Star Wars movies.
No matter what you think about the petition site, to write it off as simply a hangout for Death Star enthusiasts is missing the point.
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Death Star PetitionOver the weekend, you may have heard the White House rejected a petition signed by 34, 435 people asking it to build a Death Star.
FORBES: Beyond the Death Star: White House Proving its Petition Site is More Than Just a Sideshow
The White House has rejected a petition to build a Death Star - a huge battle-station armed with a superlaser as seen in the Star Wars films.
Some of the petitions are serious, and some silly as with many of the U.S.-generated requests, which include a demand to build a "Star Wars"-style Death Star.
The Death Star project concept falls in a practical sense at the first hurdle as nobody knows how to build a near light speed propulsion engine for it.
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Responding to the petition, Paul Shawcross, head of the administration's budget office on science and space, admitted in a blog that "a Death Star isn't on the horizon".
You should build something they fear, say, a Death Star.
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Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: In its official response to a popular online petition, the White House says building a Death Star would be an out-of-this-galaxy waste of money.
LeParmentier's brief Star Wars appearance saw his character extol the virtues of the Empire's Death Star space station and pour scorn on Vader's "sad devotion to that ancient Jedi religion".
While the vast majority of these worlds are centered around a videogame (kill the dragon, blow up the Death Star, shoot the Nazis), people are doing far more than just "playing" in them.
The argument for building a Death Star hinges on its ability to destroy planets in other stellar systems since every indication to date is that the Earth is the only planet in its stellar system with a major civilization.
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Silent film on the Death Star.
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No scientist on Earth has yet established a proven way as how one might propel even a relatively small space craft in the scale of the Apollo command vehicle at near light speeds never mind a huge piece of space junk like a Death Star.
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In other news, this week we were surprised to learn that cleaning your teeth with seaweed can be better than toothpaste. (It won't give you that minty-fresh aftertaste, though.) We also had our minds blown by this incredibly detailed Death Star made from a single ping pong ball.
The Obama Administration is not going to build a Death Star and I do not have a problem with that but the Obama Administration is also refusing to fund a second development air-frame for the Boeing anti-ballistic missile laser battle station and that I regard as a serious policy error.
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