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Finally, a Cost Estimate for Building a Real Death Star

December 14, 2012 - Posted by Tolzoh
The real Death Star must have really been murder on the Empire's wallet. This model hanging in the Los Angeles Convention Center for Celebration IV was probably cheaper.
(Credit: Daniel Terdiman / CNET)

Sometimes it seems the world is so screwed up we should just build a new one from scratch--and now we finally know how much such a project would cost.

In gloriously geeky fashion, economics students at Lehigh University tried to estimate how long it would take and how much it would cost to build the Empire's ginormous man-made planetship if we were to get started today.