Amazing things from around the net

This is Amazing things from around the net. Post things that you think are amazing or give comments on what is already amazing. Don't spam, don't get off topic, and nothing containing excessive nudity. Going to try and keep this topic PG-13.


I'll start out, just because I'm awesome like that.






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A Death Star Would Cost $15 Septillion

Feb 5th 2009
By Jeremy Taylor

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(Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with.)

A Canadian man has figured out it would cost roughly $15 septillion (24 zeros) to build a "Star Wars"-style Death Star.

Rysvard Gold, a self-described Web designer and "outlandish thinker," came to this daunting figure by calculating the amount of raw material that it would take to build a moon-sized space station, and multiplying it by the cost of getting this material into space. Gold concedes he doesn't even consider not-insignificant costs such as labor and trekking the steel around once it is blasted into the great beyond.

Unfortunately, $15 septillion is about a trillion times the current value of the entire Earth, so our lobbying effort to have a Death Star included in the U.S. stimulus package may be in vain.
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NOTE: I DID NOT WRITE THIS. THIS IS TAKEN FROM THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE:
http://www.asylum.com/2009/02/05/a-death-star-would-cost-15-septillion/
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All Credit goes to them. I just posted it here.

thought this was kinda cool and funny

saw this while looking at the blink video.