A recent story has come to light in the US concerning the “We the People” web site and a petition there concerning the wish of its voters for the US to build a Death Star space ship as depicted in the famous Star Wars movies. The petition was reported to have had some 34,000 signatures at last count.
http://paste.opensuse.org/view/download/60746982
Finally, a White House spoksman, Paul Shawcross, chief of the White House budget offices’s science and space branch responded with a firm “no” to the project citing a “lack of US support for blowing up planets, its high estimated cost, close to a quintillion dollars, and a fatal design flaw exposed by one Luke Skywalker”. Of course this should be the end then of this silly story, but a recent blog report on a Microsoft supported web site stated that a HP report on the upgrade cost of Windows PC’s to using Linux was the reason the cost was so high to build the Death Star as a lower cost might have allowed a more serious consideration of the project.
http://paste.opensuse.org/view/download/81507537
However, an undercover source was quoted as saying Linus Torvalds told him that the higher cost of the project, about 0.350 quintillion dollars, was required in order to gather up all of the world PC’s running Windows 8 in “Secure Boot” mode and then shipping them to Mars. Once they arrive on Mars, all of the Windows 8 PC’s should be placed into a mosaic pattern on the planets surface that resembles a target on the side facing earth on the date the Death Star was expected to be completed using Linux computers.
http://paste.opensuse.org/view/download/5828428
It is my understanding that Linus Torvalds was unavailable for comment when this story was first fabricated. So you decide, what was the truth?
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