If you had $ 15.6 septillion and 94 cents in your account , would you redeem the world from the economic crisis or build a Death Star , destroy the world , and move on to overrun the galaxy ?
A guy wire promise Ryszard Gold - who in all probability is an alien villain from the Outer Rim planets and mystify a 49 - stop score in ourGeek Social Aptitude Test - made the calculation of the most basic Death Star ’s price with current material and space transport monetary value here on Earth . Here ’s a quick sum-up :
https://gizmodo.com/gsat-the-geek-social-aptitude-test-5142331
• First , assume that 1/10 of the 17.16 quadrillion cubic cadence of the Death Star is something other than empty space and 6/10 of the total volume is pressurized space .
• That will ask 1.71 quadrillion cubic meter of steel , about 134 quadrillion tonne . That ’s $ 12.95 quintillion in current 2008 prices , and that ’s without counting unusual alloys and element .
• merchant vessels that to blank will cost $ 95 million per tonne : So add $ 12.79 septillion in transport .
• Now you need to add air , which will ask 8.23 quintillion cubic m of Nitrogen , and 1.65 quintillion cubic m of O , for a total delivery cost of $ 2.81 septillions and $ 212.46 quintillion .
The total : $ 15,602,022,489,829,821,422,840,226.94 .
Yes , that ’s a whooping 1.4 trillion times the current US Debt . Or a sightly more meaningful issue : 124 trillion year of state of war in Iraq .
That will only get you the very basic role model of Death Star , no options , no GPS , no radio , no leather heat seating room , no mega - laser to obliterate planet , no turbolaser towers , no computer systems , no many-sided life support systems , no crew quarters , no turbo - elevators , no energy generators , no showers , no melodic line conditioning , no Darth Vader ’s jacuzzi , no Emperor ’s abode theater arrangement , and no bloody canteen . And do n’t get me commence on the cost of all the lunch trays and the changeless supply of penne all’arrabbiata and peas require for all the Death Star personell * . That will probably double the final bill , couple with the construction cost , for a sum of more than $ 31 septillions .
As for the answer to the first question , there ’s no dubiousness about it . But then again , I always liked the Emperor ’s robe . He goes nude everywhere and nobody notice . [ Rick Gold – Thanks Ron ]
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