How much would the Death Star COST in Real Life?😱

[michaelhill]

Well, the Empire is in control of an entire galaxy.

[PlayerPaul]

825^15 is much bigger than 825 quadrillion btw

[Master-Pro]

MrBeast: I BUILT A STAR WARS DEATH STAR!!

[BB-nqcx]

Just to be blown up by a farm boy who can almost use space magic powers 💀

[natevaughn]

They should buy all their supplies from TEMU

[teresamelton]

the problem with this math though, the costs for materials is going off of earth's supply/demand cost. a galaxy where there are over a million planets that all have resources would make the cost of materials a whole lot cheaper.

[B____]

Funny because In Star Wars, it did in fact take somewhere around Twenty years to fully construct the Death star

[negative]

Also keep in mind that we can only get steel from our planet, but in Star Wars, there are millions of planets for the Empire to source the metal from. This would lead to steel being cheaper.

[JonasKrenzke]

Every country should come together and make a death star

[thesamy]

Doesn't matter the power to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force

[clarkkent]

"That thing wasn't even paid off yet. Do you have any idea what this is gonna do to my credit?"

"Who's gonna give me a loan jack hole (you)? You got an ATM in that torso lite brite?"

[hardcorebossstyles]

It did not cost $17.5B just for steel..
It used 70, 000 tonnes of steel(plate).
At average $786USD per tonne (Q2 2024), that's $55M in steel.

First in class is always most expensive due to development costs.

Numbers are different wherever you look but, in total, Ford cost $8-9B for construction.
That includes all steel, cable, pipe, reactors, weapons systems, radars, catapults, computing, etc... EVERYTHING... not just the steel.

[dbreen]

It’s safe to say we are not seeing a real life Death Star anytime soon.

My honest reaction.

Dam it.

[mr.wilson]

That was without the force as his Ally!

[volentastudios]

You also gotta bring the materials to space with requires lots of fuel

[MarioBrosJediKnightXD]

To build a Death Star is dangerous, like worse than the atomic bomb. But to build a giant space station like that without destructive lazers, that jumps into hyperspace, it sounds like a good idea of scientific research to travel the universe like that, for science. We can create entire tech solar systems from a couple of Death Stars floating around acting as planets.

[Shadow-ccbr]

We gotta get congress to raise the national debt budget a bit

[geraldsherwood]

They did use a lot of slave labor for parts procurement and assembly (even the designers were working under duress) for the first death star, so much could be written off as mere "administrative costs." Death star II had more imperial navy labor from the sound of it plus it was built in a 4 year span at war time with no way to amortize the costs.

[grandstasis]

Imagine putting all that money into building that thing in real life and then you see it just explode in orbit the next day😂

[retluoc]

That sounds about right...
I also read some background info on the Death Star, and it did take around 20 years to finish.
I read that the second one was 5 years old, and it would take another 3 years to finish.
They learned from the first time so they could build faster.
The second one was also about 20% bigger.