'Death Star' petition to prompt White House response

**Mazmaz** · 2012-12-14 02:20

I figured we could use a lighter thread these days.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2...-petition.html

Online proposal passes 25,000 signatures, requiring official response

An online petition on a White House website to secure resources and funding to build a Star Wars-like "Death Star" by 2016 has gathered 26,447 signatures and will spark a response from the Obama administration.

The government website We the People was created to allow people to petition the U.S. federal government to take action on a range of issues.

The authors of the petition began their quest on Nov. 14 and passed the goal of 25,000 signatures on Thursday. Any petition that surpasses the 25,000 mark will be reviewed by the White House staff and will receive an official response.

“We the People helps the White House understand the views of the American people and have a focused and civil conversation with them,” explains the White House website.

The authors of the petition rationalized the strange request for a Death Star — a doomsday weapon capable of destroying planets, which featured in the film Star Wars — by stating that the benefits of such a craft would boost job numbers and aid in national defence.

“By focusing our defence resources into a space-superiority platform and weapon system such as a Death Star, the government can spur job creation in the fields of construction, engineering, space exploration, and more, and strengthen our national defence,” said the petition.

Each petition must cross two critical thresholds in order to be effective. First, it must meet a minimum number of signatures for it to be publicly listed and searchable, and second it must meet the 25,000-signature mark within a month in order to garner a White House response.

“From time to time President Obama may respond directly to petitions, but we expect most of responses to come from other administration officials,” says the website.

According to the website, anyone 13 years or older with an email can start a petition seeking federal government action.

Many other petitions on the website fall short of the 25,000 signatures.

A petition for Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline raised 1,674 signatures.

Medical marijuana petitions were dwarfed by the Death Star, as a petition to have the plant used for medical purposes in all 50 states received 4,345 signatures.

A proposal to investigate and publicly condemn organ harvesting from Falun Gong believers in China had 10,054 votes.

In the 2001 census, 21,000 Canadians put down their religion as Jedi Knight

**hey** · 2012-12-14 02:46

This isn't really any worse than https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pet...gions/94kL1tsN

**Outlaw** · 2012-12-14 03:26

The President should directly respond to this and put it on Youtube. Comedy gold right there!

**BaneTheBrawler** · 2012-12-14 04:41

I wouldn't be surprised if he did respond personally, tbh.

**Bregor** · 2012-12-14 05:38

Where do I sign up to be a stormtrooper?

**Bregor** · 2012-12-14 06:40

Originally Posted by Derock

I think you have to go through the Brandon Weeden School of Aiming to be a Stormtrooper.

Ponder, etc.

**shaggnix** · 2012-12-14 07:52

defence

ffs, how do suggest a high tech marvel such as this without knowing how to use fucking spell check? or is the death start already in existence and we simply have to take a fence down to get to it?

**Bregor** · 2012-12-14 08:03

Originally Posted by shaggnix

death start

notsureifserious.jpg

**Uzor** · 2012-12-14 08:04

Defence and defense are both correct, depending on which version of English you speak.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/defence

While on the subject; if you have a ladder from Earth to the Death Star, and assuming the Death Star is larger than or equal to Earth is size and have its own gravitational field similar or stronger than Earth, would you climb up or climb down to the Death Star?

**Ashmada** · 2012-12-14 08:22

Not really new. There's a guy that actually wants to build the Enterprise (Star Trek TOS). Well, a spaceship that looks like it, but doesn't use impossible technology (warp engines, transporters,...). He thinks it's feasible in 20 years by diverting .27% of the US' annual budget to NASA for the project.

Oh, and just to troll shaggnix: colour, honour, realise, categorise, theatre, centre, neighbour, flavour, labour, humour, analyse, doughnut, defence.

**Timwakefield** · 2012-12-14 08:25

Originally Posted by shaggnix

knowing how to use fucking spell check?

Originally Posted by shaggnix

death start

Originally Posted by shaggnix

death start

Originally Posted by shaggnix

death start

Originally Posted by shaggnix

death start

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**shaggnix** · 2012-12-14 08:41

Originally Posted by Timwakefield

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my sausage fingers have betrayed me yet again! well this is embarrassing....

in my defense, start is a correctly spelled word. defence is one of those words, like the rest that ash listed, tho? i was aware of most but i've never seen defence spelled that way before, oh well. this is what happens when i try to be comical.

**hey** · 2012-12-14 08:46

Originally Posted by shaggnix

my sausage fingers have betrayed me yet again! well this is embarrassing....

in my defense, start is a correctly spelled word. defence is one of those words, like the rest that ash listed, tho? i was aware of most but i've never seen defence spelled that way before, oh well. this is what happens when i try to be comical.

How have you never seen defence spelled as defence before?

Surely you must have. Maybe you just don't notice it?

**shaggnix** · 2012-12-14 08:48

i seem to have lost my defence virginity to the OP

**Kuya** · 2012-12-14 08:57

Maybe they should increase the number of signatures that get a response.

**Pirian** · 2012-12-14 09:07

Originally Posted by Uzor

While on the subject; if you have a ladder from Earth to the Death Star, and assuming the Death Star is larger than or equal to Earth is size and have its own gravitational field similar or stronger than Earth, would you climb up or climb down to the Death Star?

Assuming we just hold the 2 bodies in place, and there is a ladder between the two that you use to climb, then both. It's SCIENCE!

**Qalbert** · 2012-12-14 09:11

you have major misconceptions about the size of the death star

**Pirian** · 2012-12-14 09:48

Nothing of the sort. In the initial statement we made the assumption that the Death Star was as large or larger than Earth, and its gravitational field was as larger, or larger than Earths. The actual size of the Death Star is irrelevant for this purpose. Of course, calling it a Death Star is also irrelevant. We could just as well be talking about any celestial body next to Earth and connected by a ladder

**Qalbert** · 2012-12-14 09:51

then don't call it a death star, lol.

**Pirian** · 2012-12-14 10:00

It's a Death Star whether you like it or not!

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