A few weeks ago, MSN covered a quirky article from the blog Centives entitled “How Much Would it Cost to build the Death Star?”. Yes, that would be Darth Vader’s Death Star; the giant planet-like weapon from the first 1977 Star Wars movie (or Episode IV if you’re a true nerd!)
The blog, ran by students at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, used some logical reasoning to estimate the size of the Death Star and roughly how much steel the creation would consist of. Here are the highlights:
• Size: 1.08 x 10^15 tonnes of steel
• Cost: At 2012 prices, about $852,000,000,000,000,000 (that many zeros would be a quadrillion). This is also rroughly 13,000 times the world’s (Earth’s) GDP.
• Time to produce: 833,315 years
Want another fun one to read? Read their article about how big (data size wise) the Matrix is.
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Photo Credit: Centives
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