Tournament: Cal | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker SSh | Judge: Arjun Garg
CP Text – Space-Faring States should:
- Establish a multilateral agreement and body to govern and foster the expansion of Asteroid Mining that applies to all countries.
- Clarifies and establishes transferrable property rights on celestial bodies.
- Mandate that private entities engaging in Asteroid Mining must not harm the Environment.
- Clarify conflict resolution should be resolved through the Outer Space Treaty and adjudicated by the International Court of Justice.
- Limit Asteroid Mining to only within the Asteroid’s orbit.
- Establish robust Asteroid and NEO tracking and detection.
- Mandate that Asteroid Mining must be fully informed with astrodynamics.
The CP competes – even if we’re both “regulations” in name, the Plan restricts Asteroid Mining which limits it in scope, the CP explicitly regulates to expand private Mining efforts.
Cambridge Dictionary No Date “Restrict” https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/restrict Elmer
to limit the movements or actions of someone, or to limit something and reduce
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out of the country. Having small children really restricts your social life.
Solves Un-Regulated Mining - CP solves ambiguity that makes Mining valuable and solves conflicts.
Coffey 9 – Sarah, B.A., Alfred University, J.D., Case Western Reserve University School of Law, “ESTABLISHING A LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR PROPERTY RIGHTS TO NATURAL RESOURCES IN OUTER SPACE”, CASE W. RES. J. INT’L L. , Vol. 41:119, https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1238andcontext=jil
Drawing on the strengths of the proposals discussed above, this Note suggests a new
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international space tribunal is necessary, one may be created at that time.
Ensuring Asteroid Mining only occurs in the Asteroids Orbit solves Collisions, Debris, and Astro-Terror.
Drmola and Mareš 15 - Jakub Drmola is a PhD student and Miroslav Mareš professor, at the Divison of Security and Strategic Studies, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, "Revisiting the deflection dilemma", Astronomy and Geophysics, Volume 56, Issue 5, October 2015, Pages 5.15–5.18, https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/56/5/5.15/235650
There are two basic ways to go about moving the resources contained within a given
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detect any hostile inflection attempts among the number of legitimate and benign ones.
NEO detection can respond to Astro-Terror – blanket bans on tech are counter-productive.
Drmola and Mareš 15 - Jakub Drmola is a PhD student and Miroslav Mareš professor, at the Divison of Security and Strategic Studies, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, "Revisiting the deflection dilemma", Astronomy and Geophysics, Volume 56, Issue 5, October 2015, Pages 5.15–5.18, https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/56/5/5.15/235650
Policy implications Considering these possible future dangers, it seems prudent to consider what to
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paralysed by unwarranted fear. Either extreme would be harmful for our future.
Astro-Dynamics Plank solves accidental asteroid deflection – sets a guide-line to conduct it safely – their ev – Mitty reads green
AC Byers and Boley 19 Michael Byers, Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, BA in Political Studies and Phd in International Law from Cambridge, Byers has written a number of op-ed articles on space issues. Relax: An asteroid will just miss hitting Earth. But our actions could still have a deep impact. March 19, 2019. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-relax-an-asteroid-will-just-miss-hitting-earth-but-our-actions-could/
Beyond the battle over resource extraction lies a more existential threat: the act of
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or Liberia? Would the same respect be paid to science and safety?