Ryszard Gold did some math and figured out how much a Death Star would cost, Today, in U.S. Dollars.He writes here:
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"[The Death Star has] a volume of 17.16 quadrillion cubic meters. At 1/10 volume, we'll need 1.71 Quadrillion cubic meters of steel, weighing in at 134 quadrillion tonnes. In 2008 steel products, from wire to ingots were selling for an average of $962 per tonne, so our cost of steel alone is $12.95 quintillion."
"Now, how about getting that into space? According to the numbers I could find on the internet, it costs around $95 million to ship 1 tonne of materials into space, so that means we'll be cutting NASA a cheque for $12.79 septillion. "
"Now how bout the air? Air is largely Nitrogen(80%) and Oxygen(20%), and rather conveniently we can ship it compressed. How much are we going to need? 8.23 quintillion m³ of Nitrogen, and 1.65 quintillion m³ of Oxygen. These compress by a very large factor; we’ll only need to ship 21.06 trillion m³ of Nitrogen, and 1.96 trillion m³ of Oxygen."
"Our Nitrogen is going to weigh in at 17.03 trillion tonnes, and our oxygen will tip the scales at 2.24 trillion tonnes. Cost of delivery? Get that pen out and write one of those oversized checks for $2.81 Septillion, and $212.46 quintillion."
"TOTAL COST:
$15,602,022,489,829,821,422,840,226 and 94 cents.
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Yikes! It's a good thing Palpatine murdered & robbed the wealthy Trade Federation, Techno Union, and the Commerce GuildBankers Clan. (Nerd!!)
AND they were able to build a SECOND one! Daaaaang. (Dork!!)
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Also, in the Star Wars universe, they do have technology that's vastly superior to ours. That would bring costs down a couple quintillion or so. And they have force powers to levitate pieces into outer space. Vader even has his hard hat on and everything.
Cost, bah, there is probably a bail out somewhere on Coruscant.
But from the end of ROTS to SW it still takes 20 years to build, yet the much bigger version in ROTJ is half built and ready for action in around 3 years.
Building something the first time around always takes longer. Once you've done it, you can make more, quicker and with more efficiency.
And maybe they were building others during that time??? So the one in A New Hope was merely the 1st one off the "assembly" line, so to speak.
;)
Ha Ha, Andrew referred to one of the prequels. Busted!
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