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The Americans tried to get it made with a real-life petition to the government. Obviously that was turned down — we are in a recession after all — but now you can actually help make the Death Star a reality with the power of Kickstarter. They’re only asking for £20 billion.
Incredibly, people are actually backing this thing. For goodness sake people, it’s NOT going to happen, OK? Even if we wanted it to, you’d have to build it in space, which we can’t do right now. I mean, even the “Risks and Challenges” says it in plain English, plus it ends on April 1st:
“The main challenge is assuring Kickstarter that this is a joke and not a serious project. As proof, the goal has been set high enough to make successful funding almost impossible.”
Don’t get me wrong — I’d love, love, love there to be even a remote possibility that we could build a Sci-Fi-style space station, but it’s simply not possible at the moment. I suspect we’d need some sort of revolutionary power source to become a reality before anything of that magnitude can be made. So perhaps it would be better to sink the £57,000 odd already pledged at the time of writing, into nuclear fusion instead? Make it happen people, then maybe we’ll actually be able to build a Death Star, one day. [Kickstarter]
Thanks Paul!
They’re only asking for £20 million. I think that’s reasonable.
I would only pledge if guaranteed my own private room on the finished construction (and my own astromech droid to open doors for me).
If they’d had a £1000 pledge level which entitled me to a weekend on the completed Death Star I’d have gone for it
The £20 Mill is just to start research, so they have a long was to go after that.
I won’t be backing it, if someone started a kickstarter for fully functional holosuites however . . .
OMG, yep, shutupandtakemymoney
Hell YES
Question: say you were mentally handicapped with a lot of money and then pledged the money, it then obviously turns out to be a joke, could you sue Kickstarter?
If they raise £20 million then I’m sure you still couldn’t sue KickStarter
not kickstarter but I guess you could try with the group running the campaign. Of course I think they only take the money if funding is successful.
Hi. peps.
As far as I can see they asking for 20 Billion not 20 million
maybe they should spend the £57,000 designing version 1. based on current technology (like the international space station) & technology-soon-to-come
there must be some aerospace engineers around who could be persuaded to knock something up. & they’re lots of concept artists around to render the early designs