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“The administration does not support blowing up planets.”
– Paul Shawcross, chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget, politely rejecting a WhiteHouse.gov petition to build a Star Wars-style Death Star
This article appears in January 18 • 2013.
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