2 years ago • 228 notesEpic Failure of the Day: Figuring out how to operate foolproof technology — UR doing it rong.
Best part? He’s supposedly an engineering student.
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A Canadian man has figured out it would cost roughly $15 septillion ($15,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (that’s 24 zeros)) to build a “Star Wars”-style Death Star.
2 years ago • 519 notesRysvard Gold, a self-described Web designer and “outlandish thinker,” came to this daunting figure by calculating the amount of raw material that it would take to build a moon-sized space station, and multiplying it by the cost of getting this material into space. Gold concedes he doesn’t even consider not-insignificant costs such as labor and trekking the steel around once it is blasted into the great beyond.
Unfortunately, $15 septillion is about a trillion times the current value of the entire Earth, so our lobbying effort to have a Death Star included in the U.S. stimulus package may be in vain.(source)



