interesting. but totally useless info. i have learned something today.

$15,602,022,489,829,821,422,840,226 and 94 cents

Damn I only have $15,602,022,489,829,821,422,840,226 and 93 cents. Can I borrow some money, someone, please?

As cool as that would be to actually live in a death star, you'd have to be balls rich. No way nerds could raise that much money. But if they did...

Money barely exists anymore... ^^
like David said, its all just numbers on a computer...

just type £10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 into your account...
you dont need the paper to spend it even... just type it in :P

What about tax and the laser?

HO-LY SHIT! 1.4 trillion times the US debt. HA! That's funny. The empire had a lot of money to build the Death Star twice.

What about paying the engineers and labour costs for the builders? That generally costs more than materials. So more like $30 septillion.

How can you estimate this? one hasn't been built before so no one knows's the actual size of it.

Get Bill Gates!

Let's not mind the fact that no sane government would ever have a need for such a weapon, I don't see such a project happening any time soon.

I feel sorry for the Sith, they spent all those years getting the money for that thing, then they overthrow the jedi, then it gets blown up. I bet Darth Sidious cried himself to sleep for weeks.

Sib:

new_age_reject:
What this doesn't take into account also, is the money spent on researching the technology to make this work, otherwise it would be a big lump of steel, stale air and dead people in funny outfits drawing in a lovely collection of space particles.

Let's just add on another few septillion, you know for all that stuff.

No big deal really, (looks in his pocket and pulls out some money) I have the funds right here.

Damn it. Looks like I'm gonna have to start my paper route again.

I better hurry up and finish that Engineering degree then, I need to help make this vision a reality.

You could save up for who knows how many years *gets out calculator*

So I live in Australia so naturally my calculations are I Australian dollars :3

The average weekly wage of an Australian is: $6302
7 days in a week means that per day wage is: $900.28571428571428571428571428571
365.25 days in a year (that is counting the extra day each leap year as an extra quarter day per year)
That comes to a yearly total of: $328829.35714285714285714285714286

NOTE: I am not rounding this so that rounding errors when I calculate the huge price is as minimal as possible.

We have established the cost of a death star in American dollars is $15,602,022,489,829,821,422,840,226.94

With current exchange rates to Australian dollars being 1 U.S. dollar = 0.974468914 Australian dollars (according to www.ozforex.com.au the first Google result for exchange rates) that makes the cost in Australian dollars: $15,203,685,911,868,042,126,729,050.741735

If the average yearly wage for an Australian is: $328829.35714285714285714285714286
And the total cost of a death star in Australian dollars is: $15,203,685,911,868,042,126,729,050.741735
The total time it would take to save up the money by yourself to even afford a death star is: 46,235,792,460,777,548,271.173804733782 YEARS!
In Layman's term, a really long time OR 46.356 quadrillion years...rounded by a few billion.

And just just in case anyone wants to know how long the 0.173804733782 at the end of that is, it equates to: 63.4821790138755 days

To whittle that time even further down and closer to exact the numbers after the decimal equate to: 9 weeks (63 days), 11 hours, 34 minutes, 20 seconds, 269 milliseconds, 988 microseconds, 432 nano seconds

Realistically the time you work is measured in hours or at smallest, lots of 15 minutes (usually), so for time you have to work sake lets call that 9 weeks 12 hours

So in closing, to afford a death star in Australia (if inflation stops completely, I'm too lazy to work inflation into the time it would cost cost of materials getting cheaper would also be a huge factor over such a long time) it would take the average Australian:

46,235,792,460,777,548,271 years, 9 weeks, 11 hours, 34 minutes, 20 seconds, 269 milliseconds, 988 microseconds, 432 nano seconds (assuming work in that far a future if a lot more accurate than hour blocks)

Or you could spend a lot less time and collect the Dragon balls and wish for two of them, then sell one for scrap and be infinitely wealthy so your Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandchildren will NEVER have to work :3

matrix3509:

EDIT: This guy doesn't even take into account the labor required to mine the iron and the labor required to smelt the steel. I'm pretty sure you can have all the steel ever made or ever will be made and still not have enough, so you gotta start mining of other planets also.

And now we know the story behind Dead Space...

Phoenixlight:
How can you estimate this? one hasn't been built before so no one knows's the actual size of it.

You've obviously never seen the Star Wars databooks.

Kopikatsu:

matrix3509:

EDIT: This guy doesn't even take into account the labor required to mine the iron and the labor required to smelt the steel. I'm pretty sure you can have all the steel ever made or ever will be made and still not have enough, so you gotta start mining of other planets also.

And now we know the story behind Dead Space...

Phoenixlight:
How can you estimate this? one hasn't been built before so no one knows's the actual size of it.

You've obviously never seen the Star Wars databooks.

Well obviously by 46 quadrillion years we would have found other civilisations and by then our sun would have swollen and engulfed earth so...i wouldnt say material quantity would be a problem, a place to build something the size of a moon but 'is no moon' would be hard i imagine, what with gravitational pulls of planets etc, it would need to be build in deep space, which would increase cost to get materials there :/

And yes, i love those data books, read them all who knows how many times :3

I don't think the bank will approve of this loan...

What good's a Death Star without a planet destroying laser?

This is fucking awesome. Time to save up.

matrix3509:

if you wanna take everything into account you would probably have to take that $15.6 septillion and square it.

I disagree, Keep in mind that $13 Septillion of that price tag is the cost of transporting material using current Earth methods.

I would imagine the cost of transporting anything in the SWEU would be significantly more economical than $95 million per ton. If that were not the case, Kolto exportation would be prohibitively expensive (seeing as it only grows on one planet in the galaxy).

Vlane:
Why do people waste their time with stuff like that?

because they enjoy doing it obviously

Well I don't think the Empire would actually pay all that. I mean, they're an omnipotent space empire, they can just take whatever the hell they want from conquered planets.

Indigo_Dingo:

I remember reading somewhere that the energy required to completely vaporize the Earth (ala Alderaan style) would be equivilant to the amount of energy the Sun puts out in 10 years.

So alot...

Imagine if the earth was suddenly teleported into the middle of the sun, do you still think it would take 10 years to be destroyed?