JCC White House: This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For

Ghost · Jan 11, 2013

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-response-youre-looking

This is awesome

Official White House Response to: Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016.

This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For

The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn't on the horizon. Here are a few reasons:

The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.

The Administration does not support blowing up planets.

Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?

However, look carefully (here's how) and you'll notice something already floating in the sky -- that's no Moon, it's a Space Station! Yes, we already have a giant, football field-sized International Space Station in orbit around the Earth that's helping us learn how humans can live and thrive in space for long durations. The Space Station has six astronauts -- American, Russian, and Canadian -- living in it right now, conducting research, learning how to live and work in space over long periods of time, routinely welcoming visiting spacecraft and repairing onboard garbage mashers, etc. We've also got two robot science labs -- one wielding a laser-- roving around Mars, looking at whether life ever existed on the Red Planet.

Keep in mind, space is no longer just government-only. Private American companies, through NASA's Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office (C3PO), are ferrying cargo -- and soon, crew -- to space for NASA, and are pursuing human missions to the Moon this decade.

Even though the United States doesn't have anything that can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, we've got two spacecraft leaving the Solar System and we're building a probe that will fly to the exterior layers of the Sun. We are discovering hundreds of new planets in other star systems and building a much more powerful successor to the Hubble Space Telescope that will see back to the early days of the universe.

We don't have a Death Star, but we do have floating robot assistants on the Space Station, a President who knows his way around a light saber and advanced (marshmallow) cannon, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is supporting research on building Luke's arm, floating droids, and quadruped walkers.

We are living in the future! Enjoy it. Or better yet, help build it by pursuing a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field. The President has held the first-ever White House science fairs and Astronomy Night on the South Lawn because he knows these domains are critical to our country's future, and to ensuring the United States continues leading the world in doing big things.

If you do pursue a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field, the Force will be with us! Remember, the Death Star's power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force.

Paul Shawcross is Chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget
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Ok, which one of you guys works at the White House?

GenAntilles · Jan 11, 2013

I bet the Russians are already building their Death Star. I can't believe we have a president who is willing to let us fall behind in the Death Star Race.

Juliet316 · Jan 11, 2013

At least there's a sense of humor in that repsonse.

Did the WH issue any response to the 'Deport Piers Morgan petition.

anakinfansince1983 · Jan 11, 2013

That is ****ing hilarious. I wonder if Obama is a Star Wars fan.

Ghost · Jan 11, 2013

anakinfansince1983 said: ↑

That is ****ing hilarious. I wonder if Obama is a Star Wars fan.
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Well...

Juliet316 said: ↑

At least there's a sense of humor in that repsonse.

Did the WH issue any response to the 'Deport Piers Morgan petition.
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Yup...

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/when-discussing-second-amendment-keep-first-mind-too

Juliet316 · Jan 11, 2013

*snickers* I love that it was Carney himself that wrote the response.

Here's the response to calls for impeaching the President (seriously, somebody actually petitioned the President's office to impeach the President):
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/short-answer-no-keep-reading

EDIT: So they can't get him deported so they're going to try and get the government charge Morgan and various others at CNN with a crime.

VadersLaMent · Jan 13, 2013

Campy Campelton · Jan 13, 2013

This whole petitioning is stupid beyond....

Rogue_Ten · Jan 13, 2013

wait wait wait hold up

Summer Dreamer said: ↑

The Administration does not support blowing up planets.

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what if there might possibly be an arab teenager on the planet whose parent once said something mean about the united states? then can we blow it up?

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