Harker Shahh Aff
| Tournament | Round | Opponent | Judge | Cites | Round Report | Open Source | Edit/Delete |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley | 2 | Archbishop Mitty AB | Arjun Garg |
|
|
| |
| Berkeley | 3 | Bellarmine AK | Ari Davidson |
|
|
| |
| College Prep | 1 | Troy Independent AP | Gerard Grigsby |
|
|
| |
| College Prep | 4 | Marlborough LF | Lukas Krause |
|
|
| |
| College Prep | 6 | Marlborough AW | Leah Villanueva |
|
|
| |
| Damus | 4 | Immaculate Heart RR | Tarun Ratnasabapathy |
|
|
| |
| Damus | 1 | Brentwood AR | Rebecca Steiner |
|
|
| |
| Damus | 6 | Marlborough VA | David Dosch |
|
|
| |
| Harvard - Westlake | 1 | Apple Valley KW | Danielle Dosch |
|
|
| |
| Harvard - Westlake | 4 | Marlborough OO | Tej Gedela |
|
|
| |
| Harvard - Westlake | 5 | Peninsula WW | Jonathan Jeong |
|
|
| |
| Heart of Texas | 4 | Marlborough JH | Eric He |
|
|
| |
| Heart of Texas | 6 | Immaculate Heart RR | Chris Castillo |
|
|
| |
| Heart of Texas | 2 | Marlborough SL | Jordon Krauss |
|
|
| |
| Mid America Cup | 3 | Princeton Independent VC | Alex Dumas |
|
|
| |
| Mid America Cup | 6 | Sam Barlow EL | Saied Beckford |
|
|
| |
| Mid America Cup | 1 | Scarsdale DD | JP Stuckert |
|
|
| |
| NDCA | 2 | Notre Dame San Jose AG | Gordon Krauss |
|
|
| |
| NDCA | 4 | Lexington AG | John Sims |
|
|
| |
| NDCA | 3 | Peninsula AB | Jinhee Heo |
|
|
| |
| Palm Classic | 2 | Strake Jesuit MS | Gordon Krauss |
|
|
| |
| Palm Classic | 3 | Marlborough ED | Claudia Ribera |
|
|
| |
| UK Season Opener | 2 | Woodrow Wilson SR | Ki Radcliffe |
|
|
| |
| UK Season Opener | 4 | Cary NS | Jenni Lee Bucker |
|
|
| |
| UK Season Opener | 5 | Larry A Ryle KH | Saketh Kotapati |
|
|
| |
| UNLV | 1 | Marlborough ML | Nikhil Navare |
|
|
| |
| UNLV | 4 | Marlborough SK | Claudia Ribera |
|
|
| |
| UNLV | 5 | Harvard-Westlake WT | Vanessa Ngyuen |
|
|
|
| Tournament | Round | Report |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley | 2 | Opponent: Archbishop Mitty AB | Judge: Arjun Garg 1AC - mining |
| Berkeley | 3 | Opponent: Bellarmine AK | Judge: Ari Davidson 1ac - mining |
| College Prep | 1 | Opponent: Troy Independent AP | Judge: Gerard Grigsby 1AC - mining |
| College Prep | 4 | Opponent: Marlborough LF | Judge: Lukas Krause 1AC - mining |
| College Prep | 6 | Opponent: Marlborough AW | Judge: Leah Villanueva 1AC - mining |
| Damus | 4 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Tarun Ratnasabapathy 1AC - whole rez |
| Damus | 1 | Opponent: Brentwood AR | Judge: Rebecca Steiner 1AC - whole rez |
| Damus | 6 | Opponent: Marlborough VA | Judge: David Dosch 1AC - whole rex |
| Harvard - Westlake | 1 | Opponent: Apple Valley KW | Judge: Danielle Dosch 1AC - mining |
| Harvard - Westlake | 4 | Opponent: Marlborough OO | Judge: Tej Gedela 1AC - mining |
| Harvard - Westlake | 5 | Opponent: Peninsula WW | Judge: Jonathan Jeong 1AC - mining new |
| Heart of Texas | 4 | Opponent: Marlborough JH | Judge: Eric He 1AC - trade secrets |
| Heart of Texas | 6 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Chris Castillo 1AC - trade secrets |
| Heart of Texas | 2 | Opponent: Marlborough SL | Judge: Jordon Krauss 1AC - trade secrets |
| Mid America Cup | 3 | Opponent: Princeton Independent VC | Judge: Alex Dumas 1AC - trade secrets |
| Mid America Cup | 6 | Opponent: Sam Barlow EL | Judge: Saied Beckford 1AC - trade secrets |
| Mid America Cup | 1 | Opponent: Scarsdale DD | Judge: JP Stuckert 1AC - trade secrets |
| NDCA | 2 | Opponent: Notre Dame San Jose AG | Judge: Gordon Krauss 1AC - artificial asteroid capture |
| NDCA | 4 | Opponent: Lexington AG | Judge: John Sims 1AC - artificial asteroid capture |
| NDCA | 3 | Opponent: Peninsula AB | Judge: Jinhee Heo 1ac - artificial asteroid capture |
| Palm Classic | 2 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit MS | Judge: Gordon Krauss 1AC - mining v3 |
| Palm Classic | 3 | Opponent: Marlborough ED | Judge: Claudia Ribera 1AC - mining v3 |
| UK Season Opener | 2 | Opponent: Woodrow Wilson SR | Judge: Ki Radcliffe 1AC-covid |
| UK Season Opener | 4 | Opponent: Cary NS | Judge: Jenni Lee Bucker 1AC-Covid |
| UK Season Opener | 5 | Opponent: Larry A Ryle KH | Judge: Saketh Kotapati 1AC-covid |
| UNLV | 1 | Opponent: Marlborough ML | Judge: Nikhil Navare 1ac - mining v3 |
| UNLV | 4 | Opponent: Marlborough SK | Judge: Claudia Ribera 1AC - mining v3 |
| UNLV | 5 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake WT | Judge: Vanessa Ngyuen 1AC - mining v4 |
To modify or delete round reports, edit the associated round.
Cites
| Entry | Date |
|---|---|
Contact InfoTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 1 | Opponent: Scarsdale DD | Judge: JP Stuckert | 4/9/22 |
JF - miningTournament: Harvard - Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Apple Valley KW | Judge: Danielle Dosch 1AC –Mining—-1ACPrivate entities are increasing mining now – US is keyRobert Garcia 18, currently an LLM Candidate in Cornell Law School's Law, Entrepreneurship and Technology program at Cornell Tech in NYC., "Regulating International Space Mining, an Enormous Industry," Pacific Council on International Policy, 10-23-2018, https://www.pacificcouncil.org/newsroom/regulating-international-space-mining-enormous-industry AND increase economic inequality by disproportionately favoring the spacefaring nations remains to be seen. It causes dangerous space mining and deregulation globally – multilateralism solves.Edd Gent 20, freelance science and technology writer, "Space Mining Should Be a Global Project—But It's Not Starting Off That Way," Singularity Hub, 10-12-2020, https://singularityhub.com/2020/10/12/the-us-is-trying-to-hijack-space-mining-and-there-could-be-disastrous-consequences/ AND the rules. As they say, to the victor go the spoils. Dangerous mining greatly increases the risk of space debris.Sarah Scoles 15, "Dust from asteroid mining spells danger for satellites," New Scientist, 5-27-2015, https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22630235-100-dust-from-asteroid-mining-spells-danger-for-satellites/ AND "A few basic precautions will prevent harm due to stray asteroid material." Clustering makes the risk of collisions uniquely high and the risk is understatedDr. Darren McKnight 17, Ph.D., Technical Director for Integrity Applications, Previously Senior Vice President and Director of Science and Technology Strategy at Science Applications International Corporation, "Proposed Series of Orbital Debris Remediation Activities," 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Satellite and Space Missions, 5/13/2017, https://iaaweb.org/iaa/Scientific20Activity/debrisminutes03166.pdf ~graphics omitted~ AND population in the 820- 865km altitude region for the last nine months. Debris cascades cause global nuke warLes Johnson 13, Deputy Manager for NASA's Advanced Concepts Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Co-Investigator for the JAXA T-Rex Space Tether Experiment and PI of NASA's ProSEDS Experiment, Master's Degree in Physics from Vanderbilt University, Popular Science Writer, and NASA Technologist, Frequent Contributor to the Journal of the British Interplanetary Sodety and Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Space Society, the World Future Society, and MENSA, Sky Alert!: When Satellites Fail, p. 9-12 ~language modified~ AND , our military advantage over potential adversaries would be dramatically reduced or eliminated. Satellites are key to environmental monitoring – debris collapses it and causes climate extincitonBen Biggs 18, PhD Researcher in Computer Vision and Deep Learning at the University of Cambridge, "How Satellites Can Protect Planet Earth From Disaster", HowItWorks Daily, 12/22/2018, https://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-satellites-can-protect-planet-earth-from-disaster/ AND or worse, and monitoring that change is vital to our planet’s survival. Independently, unregulated mining causes space warFengna Xu 20, Law School, Xi’an Jiaotong University, "The approach to sustainable space mining: issues, challenges, and solutions," Fengna Xu 2020 IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng. 738 012014 AND , priority rights should not be absolute but subjected to some arrangements. 7 That goes nuclear – the domain is fragile and offense dominant, so even small incidents escalateLaura Grego 18, Senior Scientist in the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, PhD in Experimental Physics at the California Institute of Technology, Space and Crisis Stability, Union of Concerned Scientists, 3-19-18, https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/7804-grego-space-and-crisis-stabilitypdf AND same value to a given target or same escalatory nature to different weapons. Creating a legal regime so everyone benefits from mining creates sustainable mining while avoiding conflict.Morgan Saletta 16, PhD, History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne, "All of humanity should share in the space mining boom," Conversation, 4-17-2016, https://theconversation.com/all-of-humanity-should-share-in-the-space-mining-boom-57740 AND are responsible global citizens. And they’d get a citizen’s dividend cheque too. PlanSpace faring nations should establish a multilateral Space Resource Fund that restricts private asteroid mining.frameworkImpartiality comes first – without it, moral theories would lose their prescriptive force because individuals would not follow them because they do not treat them equally.Thus the standard is maximizing expected wellbeingIndependently:1 – Extinction o/ws under any framework, even under moral uncertainty – infinite future generationsPummer 15 — (Theron Pummer, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, "Moral Agreement on Saving the World", Practical Ethics University of Oxford, 5-18-2015, Available Online at http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/05/moral-agreement-on-saving-the-world/, accessed 7-2-2018, HKR-AM) we do not endorse ableist language= AND be acting very wrongly." (From chapter 36 of On What Matters) 2 – Actor specificity:~A~ Governments must aggregate since every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action. ~B~ States lack wills or intentions since policies are collective actions. ~C~ No act- omission distinction— governments must vote on bills, so inaction is an explicit act taken, and governments are responsible for the public sphere so they must aggregate. Actor-specificity comes first since different agents have different ethical standings. | 1/15/22 |
JF - mining v2Tournament: Harvard - Westlake | Round: 5 | Opponent: Peninsula WW | Judge: Jonathan Jeong PlanSpace faring states should establish a multilateral Space Resource Fund that restricts private asteroid mining.Private entities are increasing mining now – US is keyRobert Garcia 18, currently an LLM Candidate in Cornell Law School's Law, Entrepreneurship and Technology program at Cornell Tech in NYC., "Regulating International Space Mining, an Enormous Industry," Pacific Council on International Policy, 10-23-2018, https://www.pacificcouncil.org/newsroom/regulating-international-space-mining-enormous-industry AND increase economic inequality by disproportionately favoring the spacefaring nations remains to be seen. It causes dangerous space mining and deregulation globally – multilateralism solves.Edd Gent 20, freelance science and technology writer, "Space Mining Should Be a Global Project—But It's Not Starting Off That Way," Singularity Hub, 10-12-2020, https://singularityhub.com/2020/10/12/the-us-is-trying-to-hijack-space-mining-and-there-could-be-disastrous-consequences/ AND the rules. As they say, to the victor go the spoils. Dangerous mining greatly increases the risk of space debris.Sarah Scoles 15, "Dust from asteroid mining spells danger for satellites," New Scientist, 5-27-2015, https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22630235-100-dust-from-asteroid-mining-spells-danger-for-satellites/ AND "A few basic precautions will prevent harm due to stray asteroid material." Clustering makes the risk of collisions uniquely high and the risk is understatedDr. Darren McKnight 17, Ph.D., Technical Director for Integrity Applications, Previously Senior Vice President and Director of Science and Technology Strategy at Science Applications International Corporation, "Proposed Series of Orbital Debris Remediation Activities," 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Satellite and Space Missions, 5/13/2017, https://iaaweb.org/iaa/Scientific20Activity/debrisminutes03166.pdf ~graphics omitted~ AND population in the 820- 865km altitude region for the last nine months. Debris cascades cause global nuke warLes Johnson 13, Deputy Manager for NASA's Advanced Concepts Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Co-Investigator for the JAXA T-Rex Space Tether Experiment and PI of NASA's ProSEDS Experiment, Master's Degree in Physics from Vanderbilt University, Popular Science Writer, and NASA Technologist, Frequent Contributor to the Journal of the British Interplanetary Sodety and Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Space Society, the World Future Society, and MENSA, Sky Alert!: When Satellites Fail, p. 9-12 ~language modified~ AND , our military advantage over potential adversaries would be dramatically reduced or eliminated. Satellites are key to environmental monitoring – debris collapses it and causes climate extincitonBen Biggs 18, PhD Researcher in Computer Vision and Deep Learning at the University of Cambridge, "How Satellites Can Protect Planet Earth From Disaster", HowItWorks Daily, 12/22/2018, https://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-satellites-can-protect-planet-earth-from-disaster/ AND or worse, and monitoring that change is vital to our planet’s survival. Independently, unregulated mining causes space warFengna Xu 20, Law School, Xi’an Jiaotong University, "The approach to sustainable space mining: issues, challenges, and solutions," Fengna Xu 2020 IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng. 738 012014 AND , priority rights should not be absolute but subjected to some arrangements. 7 That goes nuclear – the domain is fragile and offense dominant, so even small incidents escalateLaura Grego 18, Senior Scientist in the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, PhD in Experimental Physics at the California Institute of Technology, Space and Crisis Stability, Union of Concerned Scientists, 3-19-18, https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/7804-grego-space-and-crisis-stabilitypdf AND same value to a given target or same escalatory nature to different weapons. Creating a legal regime so everyone benefits from mining creates sustainable mining while avoiding conflict.Morgan Saletta 16, PhD, History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne, "All of humanity should share in the space mining boom," Conversation, 4-17-2016, https://theconversation.com/all-of-humanity-should-share-in-the-space-mining-boom-57740 AND are responsible global citizens. And they’d get a citizen’s dividend cheque too. frameworkImpartiality comes first – without it, moral theories would lose their prescriptive force because individuals would not follow them because they do not treat them equally.Thus the standard is maximizing expected wellbeingIndependently:1 – Extinction o/ws under any framework, even under moral uncertainty – infinite future generationsPummer 15 — (Theron Pummer, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, "Moral Agreement on Saving the World", Practical Ethics University of Oxford, 5-18-2015, Available Online at http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/05/moral-agreement-on-saving-the-world/, accessed 7-2-2018, HKR-AM) we do not endorse ableist language= AND be acting very wrongly." (From chapter 36 of On What Matters) 2 – Actor specificity:~A~ Governments must aggregate since every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action. ~B~ States lack wills or intentions since policies are collective actions. ~C~ No act- omission distinction— governments must vote on bills, so inaction is an explicit act taken, and governments are responsible for the public sphere so they must aggregate. Actor-specificity comes first since different agents have different ethical standings. | 1/16/22 |
JF - mining v3Tournament: UNLV | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough ML | Judge: Nikhil Navare PlanSpace faring nations should establish a multilateral agreement that restricts asteroid mining done by private entitiesMining—-1ACPrivate entities are increasing mining now – US is keyRobert Garcia 18, currently an LLM Candidate in Cornell Law School's Law, Entrepreneurship and Technology program at Cornell Tech in NYC., "Regulating International Space Mining, an Enormous Industry," Pacific Council on International Policy, 10-23-2018, https://www.pacificcouncil.org/newsroom/regulating-international-space-mining-enormous-industry AND increase economic inequality by disproportionately favoring the spacefaring nations remains to be seen. It causes dangerous space mining and deregulation globally – multilateralism solves.Edd Gent 20, freelance science and technology writer, "Space Mining Should Be a Global Project—But It's Not Starting Off That Way," Singularity Hub, 10-12-2020, https://singularityhub.com/2020/10/12/the-us-is-trying-to-hijack-space-mining-and-there-could-be-disastrous-consequences/ AND the rules. As they say, to the victor go the spoils. Dangerous mining greatly increases the risk of space debris.Sarah Scoles 15, "Dust from asteroid mining spells danger for satellites," New Scientist, 5-27-2015, https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22630235-100-dust-from-asteroid-mining-spells-danger-for-satellites/ AND "A few basic precautions will prevent harm due to stray asteroid material." Clustering makes the risk of collisions uniquely high and the risk is understatedDr. Darren McKnight 17, Ph.D., Technical Director for Integrity Applications, Previously Senior Vice President and Director of Science and Technology Strategy at Science Applications International Corporation, "Proposed Series of Orbital Debris Remediation Activities," 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Satellite and Space Missions, 5/13/2017, https://iaaweb.org/iaa/Scientific20Activity/debrisminutes03166.pdf ~graphics omitted~ AND population in the 820- 865km altitude region for the last nine months. Debris cascades cause global nuke warLes Johnson 13, Deputy Manager for NASA's Advanced Concepts Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Co-Investigator for the JAXA T-Rex Space Tether Experiment and PI of NASA's ProSEDS Experiment, Master's Degree in Physics from Vanderbilt University, Popular Science Writer, and NASA Technologist, Frequent Contributor to the Journal of the British Interplanetary Sodety and Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Space Society, the World Future Society, and MENSA, Sky Alert!: When Satellites Fail, p. 9-12 ~language modified~ AND , our military advantage over potential adversaries would be dramatically reduced or eliminated. Satellites are key to environmental monitoring – debris collapses it and causes climate extincitonBen Biggs 18, PhD Researcher in Computer Vision and Deep Learning at the University of Cambridge, "How Satellites Can Protect Planet Earth From Disaster", HowItWorks Daily, 12/22/2018, https://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-satellites-can-protect-planet-earth-from-disaster/ AND or worse, and monitoring that change is vital to our planet’s survival. Independently, unregulated mining causes space warFengna Xu 20, Law School, Xi’an Jiaotong University, "The approach to sustainable space mining: issues, challenges, and solutions," Fengna Xu 2020 IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng. 738 012014 AND , priority rights should not be absolute but subjected to some arrangements. 7 That goes nuclear – the domain is fragile and offense dominant, so even small incidents escalateLaura Grego 18, Senior Scientist in the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, PhD in Experimental Physics at the California Institute of Technology, Space and Crisis Stability, Union of Concerned Scientists, 3-19-18, https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/7804-grego-space-and-crisis-stabilitypdf AND same value to a given target or same escalatory nature to different weapons. Multilateralism—-1ACPrivate appropriation by US entities risks unraveling multilateral space governance.Mike Wall 20, Senior Space Writer, "US policy could thwart sustainable space development, researchers say," Space, 10-8-2020, https://www.space.com/us-space-policy-mining-artemis-accords AND maneuver itself away from potential impacts three times so far in 2020 alone. Pursuing mining multilaterally to the benefit of all is key to solve future space governance and cooperation on other issues.Jack M. Beard 17, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law, Space, Cyber and Telecommunications Law Program, LLM from Georgetown University, JD from the University of Michigan School of Law, and Former Associate Deputy General Counsel (International Affairs) at the Department of Defense, Former Lieutenant Colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Corps in the U.S. Army Reserve, "Soft Law's Failure on the Horizon: The International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities", University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Spring 2017, 38 U. Pa. J. Int'l L. 335, Lexis AND impossible, and could risk further weakening rather than improving the Code. 242 Cooperative space governance solves existential threatsDr. Joseph N. Pelton 17, PhD in International Relations from Georgetown University, Director Emeritus of the Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute at George Washington University, The New Gold Rush: The Riches of Space Beckon!, p. 1-9 AND global space agreements, are part of this new pathway to the future. Resource shortages also cause warFrosty Woolridge 9, Former Officer at the US Army Medical Service Corps, "America Galloping Toward Its Greatest Crisis in the 21st Century", The Examiner, 5-22, http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-3515-Denver-Political-Issues-Examiner~~y2009m5d22-America-galloping-toward-its-greatest-crisis-in-the-21st-century AND worst (and not unlikely) case, a nuclear war ending civilization. Space governance forges a framework to deal with multiple existential threats—-U.S. lead is keyDr. Nancy Gallagher 13. Ph.D., Associate Director for Research at the Center for International and Security Studies and Senior Research Scholar at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy. 02/11/2013. "International Cooperation and Space Governance Strategy." Space Strategy in the 21st Century: Theory and Policy, Routledge. AND leading opportunity to provide mutual reassurance and to build effective global governance institutions. Extinction’s inevitable without multilateral space governanceDuncan Blake 17 and Steven Freeland. Blake, PhD Candidate, Law and Military Uses of Outer Space, University of Adelaide; Steven Freeland, Dean, School of Law and Professor of International Law, Western Sydney University. 7-17-2017. "As the World Embraces Space, the 50-Year-Old Outer Space Treaty Needs Adaptation." Space. https://www.space.com/37500-outer-space-treaty-needs-adaptation.html AND man's entry into outer space" (the opening words of the OST)? | 2/5/22 |
JF - mining v4Tournament: UNLV | Round: 4 | Opponent: Marlborough SK | Judge: Claudia Ribera Mining—-1ACPrivate entities are increasing mining now – US is keyRobert Garcia 18, currently an LLM Candidate in Cornell Law School's Law, Entrepreneurship and Technology program at Cornell Tech in NYC., "Regulating International Space Mining, an Enormous Industry," Pacific Council on International Policy, 10-23-2018, https://www.pacificcouncil.org/newsroom/regulating-international-space-mining-enormous-industry AND increase economic inequality by disproportionately favoring the spacefaring nations remains to be seen. It causes dangerous space mining and deregulation globally – multilateralism solves.Edd Gent 20, freelance science and technology writer, "Space Mining Should Be a Global Project—But It's Not Starting Off That Way," Singularity Hub, 10-12-2020, https://singularityhub.com/2020/10/12/the-us-is-trying-to-hijack-space-mining-and-there-could-be-disastrous-consequences/ AND the rules. As they say, to the victor go the spoils. Dangerous mining greatly increases the risk of space debris.Sarah Scoles 15, "Dust from asteroid mining spells danger for satellites," New Scientist, 5-27-2015, https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22630235-100-dust-from-asteroid-mining-spells-danger-for-satellites/ AND "A few basic precautions will prevent harm due to stray asteroid material." Clustering makes the risk of collisions uniquely high and the risk is understatedDr. Darren McKnight 17, Ph.D., Technical Director for Integrity Applications, Previously Senior Vice President and Director of Science and Technology Strategy at Science Applications International Corporation, "Proposed Series of Orbital Debris Remediation Activities," 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Satellite and Space Missions, 5/13/2017, https://iaaweb.org/iaa/Scientific20Activity/debrisminutes03166.pdf ~graphics omitted~ AND population in the 820- 865km altitude region for the last nine months. Debris cascades cause global nuke warLes Johnson 13, Deputy Manager for NASA's Advanced Concepts Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Co-Investigator for the JAXA T-Rex Space Tether Experiment and PI of NASA's ProSEDS Experiment, Master's Degree in Physics from Vanderbilt University, Popular Science Writer, and NASA Technologist, Frequent Contributor to the Journal of the British Interplanetary Sodety and Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Space Society, the World Future Society, and MENSA, Sky Alert!: When Satellites Fail, p. 9-12 ~language modified~ AND , our military advantage over potential adversaries would be dramatically reduced or eliminated. Satellites are key to environmental monitoring – debris collapses it and causes climate extincitonBen Biggs 18, PhD Researcher in Computer Vision and Deep Learning at the University of Cambridge, "How Satellites Can Protect Planet Earth From Disaster", HowItWorks Daily, 12/22/2018, https://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-satellites-can-protect-planet-earth-from-disaster/ AND or worse, and monitoring that change is vital to our planet’s survival. Independently, unregulated mining causes space warFengna Xu 20, Law School, Xi’an Jiaotong University, "The approach to sustainable space mining: issues, challenges, and solutions," Fengna Xu 2020 IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng. 738 012014 AND , priority rights should not be absolute but subjected to some arrangements. 7 That goes nuclear – the domain is fragile and offense dominant, so even small incidents escalateLaura Grego 18, Senior Scientist in the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, PhD in Experimental Physics at the California Institute of Technology, Space and Crisis Stability, Union of Concerned Scientists, 3-19-18, https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/7804-grego-space-and-crisis-stabilitypdf AND same value to a given target or same escalatory nature to different weapons. Multilateralism—-1ACPrivate appropriation by US entities risks unraveling multilateral space governance.Mike Wall 20, Senior Space Writer, "US policy could thwart sustainable space development, researchers say," Space, 10-8-2020, https://www.space.com/us-space-policy-mining-artemis-accords AND maneuver itself away from potential impacts three times so far in 2020 alone. Pursuing mining multilaterally to the benefit of all is key to solve future space governance and cooperation on other issues.Jack M. Beard 17, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law, Space, Cyber and Telecommunications Law Program, LLM from Georgetown University, JD from the University of Michigan School of Law, and Former Associate Deputy General Counsel (International Affairs) at the Department of Defense, Former Lieutenant Colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Corps in the U.S. Army Reserve, "Soft Law's Failure on the Horizon: The International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities", University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Spring 2017, 38 U. Pa. J. Int'l L. 335, Lexis AND impossible, and could risk further weakening rather than improving the Code. 242 Cooperative space governance solves existential threatsDr. Joseph N. Pelton 17, PhD in International Relations from Georgetown University, Director Emeritus of the Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute at George Washington University, The New Gold Rush: The Riches of Space Beckon!, p. 1-9 AND global space agreements, are part of this new pathway to the future. It also says terrorism which alone goes nuclearElizabeth Borgwardt 16, History Professor at Washington University and Author of The Nuremberg Idea, forthcoming from Knopf, 9/11: What Would Trump Do?, Politico, March 2016, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/donald-trump-2016-terrorist-attack-foreign-policy-213784 AND might seem, the general actually had some support for his outlandish proposal. Resource shortages also cause warFrosty Woolridge 9, Former Officer at the US Army Medical Service Corps, "America Galloping Toward Its Greatest Crisis in the 21st Century", The Examiner, 5-22, http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-3515-Denver-Political-Issues-Examiner~~y2009m5d22-America-galloping-toward-its-greatest-crisis-in-the-21st-century AND worst (and not unlikely) case, a nuclear war ending civilization. Space governance forges a framework to deal with multiple existential threats—-U.S. lead is keyDr. Nancy Gallagher 13. Ph.D., Associate Director for Research at the Center for International and Security Studies and Senior Research Scholar at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy. 02/11/2013. "International Cooperation and Space Governance Strategy." Space Strategy in the 21st Century: Theory and Policy, Routledge. AND leading opportunity to provide mutual reassurance and to build effective global governance institutions. Extinction’s inevitable without multilateral space governanceDuncan Blake 17 and Steven Freeland. Blake, PhD Candidate, Law and Military Uses of Outer Space, University of Adelaide; Steven Freeland, Dean, School of Law and Professor of International Law, Western Sydney University. 7-17-2017. "As the World Embraces Space, the 50-Year-Old Outer Space Treaty Needs Adaptation." Space. https://www.space.com/37500-outer-space-treaty-needs-adaptation.html AND man's entry into outer space" (the opening words of the OST)? PlanSpace faring nations should establish a multilateral agreement that restricts asteroid mining done by private entitiesUtil FrameworkThe standard is maximizing expected well-being.Uncertainty and social contract require governments use utilGoodin, 1995 (Robert, philsopher at the Research School of the Social Sciences, Utilitarianism as Public Philosophy. P. 62-63) AND proceed to calculate the utility payoffs from adopting each alternative possible general rules. | 2/6/22 |
SO - trade secretsTournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlborough SL | Judge: Jordon Krauss 1AC
| 11/6/21 |
Open Source
| Filename | Date | Uploaded By | Delete |
|---|---|---|---|
2/19/22 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
2/20/22 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
12/18/21 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
12/18/21 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
12/19/21 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
11/7/21 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
11/7/21 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
11/7/21 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
1/15/22 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
1/16/22 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
1/16/22 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
10/17/21 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
10/17/21 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
11/6/21 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
9/25/21 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
9/26/21 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
4/9/22 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
4/9/22 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
4/9/22 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
4/10/22 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
2/12/22 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
2/12/22 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
9/11/21 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
9/12/21 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
9/12/21 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
2/5/22 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
2/6/22 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
| |
2/6/22 | 26sofias@studentsharkerorg |
|