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"So overnight, in my simulations, I would expect a 12.9 per cent drop in the gross galactic product and that number could get up to anywhere up to about a 30 per cent drop, which is greater than the 26.7 per cent that the U.S. He found the costs of destroying the Death Star would be staggering, requiring an enormous, galactic-wide bailout to the tune of 15-20 per cent of the economy. So once he had calculated the size of the economy and the cost of the project, he just applied his own research.

Star Wars merchandise could prompt out-of-this-world toy salesįeinstein's field of study - when he's not painstakingly dissecting the Star Wars universe - is system risk.

"So for the 20 years of development for the first Death Star, this would be 0.21 per cent of GGP, gross galactic product, per year."Īssuming a galactic economy that's growing at two per cent per year, Feinstein calculated that GGP at the time the first Death Star was built would be $6.09 sextillion. The Manhattan Project cost "0.21 per cent of GDP per year in the U.S. research project that produced the first atomic bombs. He searched for a comparably ambitious military research and development project and settled on the Manhattan Project, the U.S. I took those numbers and found actually instead of $800 quadrillion, it would be $193 quintillion." "That was just the cost for the steel, the raw materials for building a Death Star. The chief of the science and space branch at the White House's Office of Management and Budget actually responded to that petition.

$850 quadrillion in raw materials aloneįeinstein started with a real world document: a petition calling on the White House to build a Death Star. Once he calculated the price tag of building a Death Star, Feinstein was able to calculate the size of the global economy at the time. The first one, you'll recall, was blown up in the original Star Wars movie.

It would have been beyond anything that we've ever seen on Earth."įeinstein holds a doctorate in financial engineering and is the author of a paper entitled " It's a Trap: Emperor Palpatine's Poison Pill," in which he determines the cost of building both Death Stars. "This would have been worse than the great depression. "It would have been a complete disaster," says Zachary Feinstein from Washington University in St. But what if it actually made their miserable lives even worse? The Debt Star Blowing up the Death Star was supposed to knock the Empire on its heels and change the fate of millions across the galaxies. Those noble rebels were fighting a tyrannical emperor and a psychotic Jedi drawn to the dark side. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a bunch of rebels blew up a giant space station and set the course for one of the biggest, most successful movie franchises of all time.