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then this little article from IGN will explain the costs.

IGN.com

Building the Death Star
Passionate fan breaks down the cost of building the Empire's greatest weapon in today's terms.
by Chris Iaquinta

US, February 4, 2009 - Here at IGN we've all got our little side projects we like to work on. Some of us build ships in bottles, others work on their home theater system, and some sit quietly in the dark waiting for the release of sweet death. If there were one project that could unite us all, however, it would be the building of a real life Death Star. We've thought about it, you've thought about it, but how do we actually make it happen? Well, some super galactic-level fanboy has already beaten us to the punch and calculated exactly how much it would cost to build the Death Star in modern times.

Put together by Ryszard Gold, who sounds like he was named after a planetary system in the Star Wars universe, the calculation is based on the construction of a bare bones Death Star (no Wookie bowling alley or bounty hunter café), using current materials and space transport costs here on earth. Here's how it breaks down.

• 1.71 quadrillion cubic meters of steel, which weighs about 134 quadrillion tonnes. Based on 2008 steel prices that's a price tag of $12.95 quintillion.

• Shipping to space: $95 million per tonne. That adds up to $12.79 septillion just in transport costs. And we assume that is using FedEx Ground and not Priority Overnight.

• Breathable air: 8.23 quintillion cubic meters of Nitrogen, and 1.65 quintillion cubic meters of oxygen, which will cost about $2.81 septillion to get up there.

The total? A cool $15,602,022,489,829,821,422,840,226.94. Otherwise known as $15.6 Septillion.

So obviously, the problem is shipping. The pure material cost of the Death Star doesn't even begin to compare with the price of just getting the building blocks up there. And remember this is based on the concept of an empty Death Star with practically nothing inside it. You want to add a Jamba Juice or an Internet café? It's gonna cost you. Considering the cost is 1.4 trillion times our current US debt, we shouldn't expect to see one floating in orbit anytime soon, but it's nice to know that when we do finally get sick of the moon, we know how much it'll cost to wipe the smug look off its face.
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I wonder when the Arabs will get around to building one. ;)

Would be interesting if they did this for a few more things from films, like the Star Destroyer from Star Wars.
 
Meh. The cost would be reduced by a factor of around a million by mining and processing the required minerals in space - probably from the asteroid belt :)
 
jamief said:
Of course, posting this in a thread about the cost to manufacture the Death Star shows that you have even less of a life than him.
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"Man dies after spending 400 hours solidly playing WoW"

"Wow, that's pretty sad."

"YOU POSTED IN THREAD ABOUT IT SO UR MORE SADDER!"

:confused:
 
jamief said:
Of course, posting this in a thread about the cost to manufacture the Death Star shows that you have even less of a life than him.
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Posting about someone posting about the cost of manufacturing the Death Star means you have even less of a life than someone who has less of a life than somone who needs to get a life.
 
And yet all that money will still only buy an architect who makes silly aesthetic choices - like the one where there is a 2 meter wide hole in a trench that leads directly to the reactor core...
 
NathanE said:
And yet all that money will still only buy an architect who makes silly aesthetic choices - like the one where there is a 2 meter wide hole in a trench that leads directly to the reactor core...
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But its only the size of a wamp rat, who's gonna notice?

PK!
 
hes worked out the cost of building something that is thousands of years more advanced than us on current levels of transport technology.

what a berk. do you think if we had the capabilities to build something like that we would have transport issues? ffs.

and he hasnt even taken into account labour costs, insurance, overheads once the thing is built :rolleyes:
 
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