Should we build a Death Star (like the one in Star Wars)?
Our civilization sits in dangerous territory right now. There are over seven billion of us, yet we are all concentrated on one ecosystem — the Earth, with one tiny totally-dependent off-planet colony, the International Space Station, which houses less than 10 people at a time. A single mass viral pandemic, asteroid strike or other cataclysm could completely wipe our species out. With humanity spread throughout the solar system — and preferably, the galaxy and the universe — our species is far less fragile to random extinction events. If we had access to the technology necessary to build a Death Star, we could easily begin to colonize space. And the Death Star itself — a giant space weapon — would be a safeguard against a particular kind of cataclysmic risk, that of hostile alien attack.
http://theweek.com/article/index/251614/why-we-should-actually-build-the-death-star
Hell yeah!!!
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Wait..., what? No!!!
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If we were to build a death star why would we put a massive planet destroying LASER on it? In my opinion it should be used only to move large quantities of people and supplies to other parts of the solar system or galaxy. We have no use for a weapon of that magnitude. The real debate should be "Should we put a massive planet destroying gun on the death star when we build it?". Side: Hell yeah!!!
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