- AMT/ERTL STARWARS デス・スター 38303/プラッツ
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アメリカ・ホワイトハウスは、映画「スターウォーズ」に登場する銀河帝国軍の巨大宇宙要塞兵器「デス・スター」を、実際に建造して雇用創出してほしいとする市民の請願に対して、公式に回答した。
1か月間で、2万5千人以上の署名が集まった場合、政府が公式に対回答するルールです。
回答は「建造しない」ですが、建造しない理由は3つ。
1．建造費用が高すぎる。
＜85京ドル以上(日本円で7850京円)かかる＞
2．政府は惑星破壊を支援しない。
＜映画で、デススターは惑星を破壊するシーンがある＞
＜そして、3つ目の回答にはユーモアがあります。＞
3．1人乗り宇宙戦闘機に破壊されるような致命的欠陥のあるデススターに、税金をつぎ込まなければならないのか。
＜映画「スターウォーズ」では、主人公「ルーク・スカイウォーカー」の操縦する1人乗り宇宙戦闘機により、デススターは破壊されます。＞
- 1/72 STARWARS X-ウイング・ファイター/ファインモールド
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- スター・ウォーズ ルーク・スカイウォーカー伝 (LUCAS BOOKS)/エフエックス
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- ￥1,575
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↓ホワイトハウスの公式回答(全文)↓
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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
By Paul Shawcross
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
Tell us what you think about this response and We the People.
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↓ホワイトハウスの公式回答(すこし和訳しました)↓
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Official White House Response to
(ホワイトハウス公式回答)
Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016.
資源と資金を調達して、2016年までにデス・スターの建設を始めてください。
This Isn't the Petition Response.
これは期待されるような回答ではありません。
The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense,
but a Death Star isn't on the horizon.
政府(宇宙科学担当)は皆さんと同様、雇用創出と強い国防を望みますが、建造は想定外です。
Here are a few reasons:
いくつかの問題があります。
•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.
デス・スターの建造には850,000,000,000,000,000ドル以上(85京ドル、日本円で7580京円)かかると試算されました。
政府(宇宙科学担当)は、財政赤字を拡張するのではなく赤字を縮小するために取り組んでいます。
•The Administration does not support blowing up planets.
政府(宇宙科学担当)は、惑星を破壊することを支援しません。
•Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?
1人乗り宇宙戦闘機に破壊されるような致命的欠陥のあるデススターに、税金をつぎ込まなければならないのか。