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Q: How much would it cost to build the Death Star?

A: Only $852 quadrillion ($852,000,000,000,000,000)

The cost, which is 13,000 times more than the world’s GDP, to build the Death Star from the Star Wars movies, as calculated by economics students at Lehigh University. They took into account its 87-mile diameter and the multiple quadrillions of metric tons of steel required