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Even If We Could Afford To Build A Death Star It Would Still Be A Bad Idea

February 24, 2012Erik Kain

Students at have put together a fun experiment. They’ve calculated just how much it would cost to build a Death Star from Star Wars. The steel alone, they estimate, would cost at “2012 prices, about $852,000,000,000,000,000. Or roughly 13,000 times the world’s GDP.” Kevin Drum says this is a bargain – for the Galactic Empire: […]

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Star Wars Isn’t A Religion It’s A Space Opera

January 29, 2012Erik Kain

Liel Leibovitz takes on the Force and the overly simplistic mythology of Star Wars: From faith stems nuance. From myth, generalities. And, sadly for us, the spirit of myth is winning: We revere Star Wars because to our minds—modern machines that equate religion with superstition and are willing to disregard imperfections in science but never in […]

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