Death Star for $ 15 septillion

If you had exactly $ 15.6 septillion and 94 cents in your account, and you would have a choice: to help earthlings in the battle with the global financial crisis, or to build a Death Star, destroy the world and take over the Universe in order to become its sole ruler ... you choosed?

A boy named Ryszard Gold (apparently a stranger, not otherwise) calculated that the creation of the legacy of Star Wars in the basic configuration and from materials currently known to mankind, with references to space transportation costs will cost the customer a pretty penny. Here is a brief summary of the price list:
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• To begin with, suppose that 1/10 of 17.16 quadrillion cubic meters of the Death Star is an equipped area (computers, cabins, hangars, ...), while 6/10 of the total area is wasteland.
• A similar design will require 1.71 quadrillion cubic meters of steel, approximately 134 quadrillion tons. At today's prices, it is about $ 12.95 quintilln without taking into account the use of various kinds of alloys and elements.
• It will cost $ 95 million per ton of cargo to launch all this canoe into space: we add $ 12.79 septillion to transportation costs to the price tag.
• We also need air. For a comfortable oxygen supply to the ship, 8.23 ​​quintillion cubic meters of nitrogen and 1.65 quintillion cubic meters of oxygen will be required, and $ 2.81 septillion and $ 212.46 quintillion, respectively, will have to be paid for the delivery.

Total: $ 15,602,022,489,829,821,422,840,226.94.

Yes Yes Yes. 1.4 trillion times more than current US debt. Or even this: 124 trillion years of wars in Iraq.

I remind you that for this money you will be able to build only the most basic complete set of the Death Star - no GPS, radio, heated leather chairs and mega-lasers to attack enemy planets. We will have to do without turbolaser guns, computers, barracks, turbo lifts, power generators, showers, jacuzzis and air conditioners. You can forget about the home theater and personal bar with bright unfiltered. I will not even talk about the cost of a mountain of trays for your soldiers, as well as the cost of delivering tons of pasta in a fleet and rice to the ship. Most likely, the bill will double, if we add to the ship's assembly price plus everything, and we will get about $ 31 septillion.

If we return to the original question asked in the first sentence of the article, the answer is, of course, obvious. But damn, Darth Vader is still cool pepper!