{"id":11152,"date":"2012-02-29T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11152"},"modified":"2012-02-29T03:00:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T08:00:16","slug":"detah-star-economics-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11152","title":{"rendered":"Death Star Economics Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2012\/02\/death-star-surprisingly-cost-effective-weapons-system\">The Death Star Is a Surprisingly Cost-Effective Weapons System<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[H]ow big is the Republic\/Empire? There&#8217;s probably a canonical figure somewhere, but I don&#8217;t know where. So I&#8217;ll just pull a number out of my ass based on the apparent size of the Old Senate, and figure a bare minimum of 10,000 planets. That means the Death Star requires .03 percent of the GDP of each planet in the Republic\/Empire annually. By comparison, this is the equivalent of about $5 billion per year in the current-day United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11069\">Went there first, I did,<\/a> but not in as much detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Death Star Is a Surprisingly Cost-Effective Weapons System [H]ow big is the Republic\/Empire? There&#8217;s probably a canonical figure somewhere, but I don&#8217;t know where. So I&#8217;ll just pull a number out of my ass based on the apparent size &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11152\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,31,45,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-movies","category-sci-fi","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}