Death Star is not needed when there is Curiosity
On the website of the White House of the United States a few months ago, the petition service was opened. Each petition is openly voted, and if it gets more than 25 thousand votes, then the official response of the Presidential Administration should follow. November 14, 2012 there was published a petition for the start of financing and construction of the Death Star .
Today, the petition received a decent official response.
The text of the petition read:
"The signatories here are petitioning the US government to secure funding and resources to start building the Death Star in 2016
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By concentrating our protection resources into a space supremacy platform and weapon system such as the Death Star, the government can encourage job creation in the areas of construction, development, space exploration, and more, and strengthen our national defense. "
The answer was given by Paul Chocross, Head of the Department of Science and Space at the White House Office of Management and Budget.
“This is not the petition you are looking for *.
(* Referring to Obi Wan Kenobi's phrase: “This is not the droid you're looking for “)
The government shares your desire to increase jobs and increase national security, but the Death Star is not on the horizon. Here are some reasons:
1. The construction of the Death Star is estimated to cost more than $ 850,000,000,000,000,000. We work hard to reduce the deficit, not widen it.
2. The government does not support the explosion of the planets.
3. Why should we spend countless taxpayer dollars on the “Death Star” with a fundamental flaw that the adversary can take advantage of on a single-seater?
However, look carefully (like this) and you will notice something already floating in the sky - this is not the Moon, this is a Space Station!
Yes, we already have a giant, International Space Station the size of a football field in orbit around the Earth. It helps us learn how people can live and thrive in space for a long time. There are six astronauts on the Space Station - Americans, Russians and Canadians - living in it right now, conducting research, learning how to live and work in space for long periods of time. They occasionally meet spaceships and restore onboard garbage presses, etc. We also have two robotic science laboratories - one of which owns a laser - wandering around Mars. They look at whether life ever existed on the Red Planet.
Keep in mind that space is no longer just for the government. Private American companies, through the NASA Commercial Team and Cargo Program Office ( C3PO ), ship the cargo - and soon, the team - for NASA, and pursue the goal of a human mission on the moon this decade.
Even though the United States has nothing that Kessel’s Run can do in less than 12 parsecs, we have two spacecraft leaving the solar system,
and we are building an apparatus that flies to the outer layers of the sun. We discover hundreds of new planets in other star systems and build a much more powerful successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, it will see the past by the first years of the Universe.
We do not have a Death Star, but we do have floating helper robots on the Space Station,
a president who knows how to hold a lightsaber
and an advanced (marshmallow) gun.
The Office of Advanced Planning for Defense Research and Development, supports research into the construction of Luke’s hand,
lets into the production of floating and four-legged droids.
We live in the future ! Enjoy it. Or even better, help build it by choosing a career in science, technology, engineering, or a math-related field. The President held the first White House science fairs and Astronomy Night on the South Lawn, because he knows that these areas are important for the future of our country, for continuing to lead the United States in the world and for new great achievements.
If you really follow a scientific career, in technology, technology or a field related to mathematics, then the Force will be with us! Remember: the Death Star can destroy the planet, or even the whole star system, but it is nothing near the power of the Force. ”
Original text: petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-response-youre-looking
Today, the petition received a decent official response.
The text of the petition read:
"The signatories here are petitioning the US government to secure funding and resources to start building the Death Star in 2016
')
By concentrating our protection resources into a space supremacy platform and weapon system such as the Death Star, the government can encourage job creation in the areas of construction, development, space exploration, and more, and strengthen our national defense. "
The answer was given by Paul Chocross, Head of the Department of Science and Space at the White House Office of Management and Budget.
“This is not the petition you are looking for *.
(* Referring to Obi Wan Kenobi's phrase: “This is not the droid you're looking for “)
The government shares your desire to increase jobs and increase national security, but the Death Star is not on the horizon. Here are some reasons:
1. The construction of the Death Star is estimated to cost more than $ 850,000,000,000,000,000. We work hard to reduce the deficit, not widen it.
2. The government does not support the explosion of the planets.
3. Why should we spend countless taxpayer dollars on the “Death Star” with a fundamental flaw that the adversary can take advantage of on a single-seater?
However, look carefully (like this) and you will notice something already floating in the sky - this is not the Moon, this is a Space Station!
Yes, we already have a giant, International Space Station the size of a football field in orbit around the Earth. It helps us learn how people can live and thrive in space for a long time. There are six astronauts on the Space Station - Americans, Russians and Canadians - living in it right now, conducting research, learning how to live and work in space for long periods of time. They occasionally meet spaceships and restore onboard garbage presses, etc. We also have two robotic science laboratories - one of which owns a laser - wandering around Mars. They look at whether life ever existed on the Red Planet.
Keep in mind that space is no longer just for the government. Private American companies, through the NASA Commercial Team and Cargo Program Office ( C3PO ), ship the cargo - and soon, the team - for NASA, and pursue the goal of a human mission on the moon this decade.
Even though the United States has nothing that Kessel’s Run can do in less than 12 parsecs, we have two spacecraft leaving the solar system,
and we are building an apparatus that flies to the outer layers of the sun. We discover hundreds of new planets in other star systems and build a much more powerful successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, it will see the past by the first years of the Universe.
We do not have a Death Star, but we do have floating helper robots on the Space Station,
a president who knows how to hold a lightsaber
and an advanced (marshmallow) gun.
The Office of Advanced Planning for Defense Research and Development, supports research into the construction of Luke’s hand,
lets into the production of floating and four-legged droids.
We live in the future ! Enjoy it. Or even better, help build it by choosing a career in science, technology, engineering, or a math-related field. The President held the first White House science fairs and Astronomy Night on the South Lawn, because he knows that these areas are important for the future of our country, for continuing to lead the United States in the world and for new great achievements.
If you really follow a scientific career, in technology, technology or a field related to mathematics, then the Force will be with us! Remember: the Death Star can destroy the planet, or even the whole star system, but it is nothing near the power of the Force. ”
Original text: petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-response-youre-looking
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/165531/
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