Death Star Petition Success

[GDS_Starfury]

I've already complained to my senator. She's from Alderaan and has lots of pull in the Senate. She does lots of mercy missions and such.

Ive heard of that senator and her penchant for incest.

[Martok]

She claimed she "didn't know" until after the fact... 

[mirth]

I've already complained to my senator. She's from Alderaan and has lots of pull in the Senate. She does lots of mercy missions and such.

Ive heard of that senator and her penchant for incest.

My understanding is that she also enjoys kissing Wookies.

[GDS_Starfury]

see what happens when your raised in a broken home.

[Longdan]

I see it now:
"Deathstar victim of dysfunctional family!"

[Bison]

JCIDS sounds like some sort of nefarious venereal disease.

[mirth]

Just received this response from the White House:




   

This Is Not the Petition Response You're Looking For

By Paul Shawcross, Chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget

The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn't on the horizon. Here are a few reasons:

The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.
The Administration does not support blowing up planets.
Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?
However, look carefully (here's how) and you'll notice something already floating in the sky -- that's no Moon, it's a Space Station! Yes, we already have a giant, football field-sized International Space Station in orbit around the Earth that's helping us learn how humans can live and thrive in space for long durations. The Space Station has six astronauts -- American, Russian, and Canadian -- living in it right now, conducting research, learning how to live and work in space over long periods of time, routinely welcoming visiting spacecraft and repairing onboard garbage mashers, etc. We've also got two robot science labs -- one wielding a laser -- roving around Mars, looking at whether life ever existed on the Red Planet.

Keep in mind, space is no longer just government-only. Private American companies, through NASA's Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office (C3PO), are ferrying cargo -- and soon crew -- to space for NASA, and are pursuing human missions to the Moon this decade.

Even though the United States doesn't have anything that can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, we've got two spacecraft leaving the Solar System and we're building a probe that will fly to the exterior layers of the Sun. We are discovering hundreds of new planets in other star systems and building a much more powerful successor to the Hubble Space Telescope that will see back to the early days of the universe.

We don't have a Death Star, but we do have floating robot assistants on the Space Station, a President who knows his way around a light saber and advanced (marshmallow) cannon, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is supporting research on building Luke's arm, floating droids, and quadruped walkers.

We are living in the future! Enjoy it. Or better yet, help build it by pursuing a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field. The President has held the first-ever White House science fairs and Astronomy Night on the South Lawn because he knows these domains are critical to our country's future, and to ensuring the United States continues leading the world in doing big things.

If you do pursue a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field, the Force will be with us! Remember, the Death Star's power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force.

Tell us what you think about this response and We the People.

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[TheCommandTent]

^Glad to see someone has a sense of humor.

[LongBlade]

Care to guess how I knew this was a joke?

The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.
The Administration does not support blowing up planets.

[Staggerwing]

Care to guess how I knew this was a joke?

The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.
The Administration does not support blowing up planets.

That was just too good to pass up, wasn't it? ;D

[GDS_Starfury]

thats probably the best response about anything Ive ever seen come out of the White House.

[mirth]

Frankly, I'm disappointed. Promises were made during the campaign about dissolving the Senate and crushing the Rebellion.

[Staggerwing]

^Once again, he shoots... he scores!!!!

[TheCommandTent]

^Once again, he shoots... he scores!!!!

He is on a roll tonight

[mirth]

^Once again, he shoots... he scores!!!!

He is on a roll tonight

Quick, somebody tell that to my girlfriend.  She's being difficult.