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Since the White House turned down a petition to build a Death Star, some enterprising person (or persons?) has taken up the cause. The Kickstarter Open Source Death Star is raising £20,000,000 for some more detailed plans and "enough chicken wire to protect reactor exhaust ports." But don't get too excited: actual construction of the Death Star is a stretch goal, set at roughly $850 quadrillion.
Oddly, this project is in the UK — as far as I know, nobody has petitioned the British government to construct a Death Star, but I suppose they haven't promised to respond to petitions the way our current administration has. Bonus points for the reference to The Hudsucker Proxy, but other than that the Kickstarter page is pretty weak. Sure, it's a joke, but a little more effort could have turned it into a much better joke: the White House response was a lot funnier.
Still, if you've got your hopes set on a Death Star, you could get together with several million of your closest trillionaire friends, and keep your fingers crossed that chicken wire will do the trick.
