$850,000,000,000,000,000

That's the estimated costs of the death star that over 30,000 people petitioned to begin building by 2016.



Apparently its not going to happen.

Here's the petition and the response.

Aside from the costs, the administration makes the following arguments against 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?