# There will be no Death Star this year. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 12, 2013, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-will-be-no-death-star-this-year/646940 "2013-01-12T04:54:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-will-be-no-death-star-this-year/646940/21 "2013-01-13T01:51:01Z")
What if we find some Wookiee slaves? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-will-be-no-death-star-this-year/646940/22 "2013-01-13T01:53:40Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > What if we find some Wookiee slaves? We shave them and put them in Leia’s slave girl outfit. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-will-be-no-death-star-this-year/646940/23 "2013-01-13T03:40:13Z")
> [@BMax](#): > > Yes, he did, but he missed several opportunities to point out that we’re exploring strange, new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. You think that would have been a GOOD idea, do you? ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-will-be-no-death-star-this-year/646940/24 "2013-01-13T04:18:03Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Ahem. “Peace moon”. > > And I think that it’s great that the administration is responding even to things like this. One, it shows that the government does actually have a sense of humor, and is making an effort to stay in touch with the people. And two, the bureaucrat who responded took the opportunity to highlight a bunch of the administration’s real policies, which will enjoy the publicity boost. To be fair, I’m not sure they had a choice. I believe any petition with 25,000 signatures warrants an official reply from the White House. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-will-be-no-death-star-this-year/646940/25 "2013-01-13T04:37:35Z")
> [@](#): > > To be fair, I’m not sure they had a choice. I believe any petition with 25,000 signatures warrants an official reply from the White House. Yes, but only because the administration itself has put that rule into place. They could instead have restricted that to “serious” proposals only, right from the outset. But they didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-will-be-no-death-star-this-year/646940/26 "2013-01-13T05:58:59Z")
They also could have done a much more dry, serious, and/or “boilerplate” kind of response. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-will-be-no-death-star-this-year/646940/27 "2013-01-13T06:50:10Z")
Gingrich would’ve built a Death Star. We had our chance and we blew it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-will-be-no-death-star-this-year/646940.md?page=1)