You don't need to know much about space to be able to hypothesize the best way of building a Death Star. Sure, knowing about physics and space might make things easier, but hey, imagination is fun. Brian Muirhead, chief engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory decided to bring some reality to making the Death Star and it turns out all we need is an asteroid (as well as a ton of manual labor).
"If one wanted to build a Death Star, you didn't build it by launching a bunch of stuff off a planet. You went and got yourself an asteroid and built it from that," said Muirhead to Wired. “It could provide the metals. You have organic compounds, you have water—all the building blocks you would need to build your family Death Star.”
You know what people called an asteroid? Pluto. Yeah, I remember when we turned our backs on Pluto (which is a planet) and said it was an asteroid. We have our Death Star folks. Problem solved.
Someone go do it.
