A petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration build a Death Star like the one in Star Wars reached 25,000-plus signatures Thursday, a threshold requiring the government to respond whether it will build the fictional weapon capable of annihilating planets with its super laser.
The petition on the White House website’s “We the People” page demands the Death Star project begin by 2016.
“By focusing our defense 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 defense,” the petition says.
The administration promises it will publicly respond to petitions if they get 25,000 signatures in a month’s time.
The Death Star, the Galactic Empire’s “ultimate weapon,” was a space station first appearing in the 1977 Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
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