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Stephen Colbert on Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, New BFFs
"Obviously, this healing is going to be a process." – Stephen Colbert
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Tweet Untweet: Mitt Romney's Plot Holes
Romney says Bush saved the economy. Darth Vader also saved Luke, but in both cases some stuff happened before that.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) March 21, 2012
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Death Star vs. Moon Base: An Analysis
If you have a social life more advanced than mine or that of a Carthusian monk or of a Ron Paul Revolution keyboard commando (Internet comments division) you may have missed the most important blogosphere discussion of the week: how much would the Death Star cost and would it be a worthwhile investment?Students at Lehigh have estimated that it would take $852 quadrillion dollars just to purchase the 1.08×1015 tons of steel needed to build a Death Star, while Kevin Drum has noted that since a Ford-class aircraft carrier costs at least 100 times the value of its raw materials, the final price tag "would be about 1.3 million times the [Earth] world's GDP." However, since the Empire is vast and its GDP so large, Drum estimates that Death Star construction requires just ".03% of the GDP of each planet in the Republic/Empire annually" during each year of construction.
Which raises the obvious question: what makes for the better investment, an Empire-constructed Death Star or a US-built moon base?
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Tweet Untweet: He Finds Your Lack of Faith Disturbing
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Tweet Untweet: Prequels
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Tags: Herman Cain, Star Wars, Tweet Untweet, Twitter
