Tournament: CPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lynbrook SY | Judge: Loofbourrow, W
Robert 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
In 2015, the United States passed the U.S. Commercial Space Launch
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increase economic inequality by disproportionately favoring the spacefaring nations remains to be seen.
This will result in a race to the bottom and dangerous space mining – 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/
Exploiting the resources of outer space might be key to the future expansion of the
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the rules. As they say, to the victor go the spoils.
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/
NASA chose the second option for its Asteroid Redirect Mission, which aims to pluck
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"A few basic precautions will prevent harm due to stray asteroid material."
Dr. 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~
In the future, this population will be added to primarily from collisions between large
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population in the 820- 865km altitude region for the last nine months.
Les 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~
Whatever the initial cause, the result may be the same. A satellite destroyed
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, our military advantage over potential adversaries would be dramatically reduced or eliminated.
Ben 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/
It might not look it, but our planet is a fragile place. A
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or worse, and monitoring that change is vital to our planet's survival.
And a mining free for all will result in militarization and conflict.
Fengna 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
3.1. Conflicts between multiple States Space resources, as res communis ~
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, priority rights should not be absolute but subjected to some arrangements. 7
Space war goes nuclear—-offense dominant domain
Laura 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
Why space is a particular problem for crisis stability
For a number of reasons
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same value to a given target or same escalatory nature to different weapons.
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
The United States' space policy threatens the safe and sustainable development of the final frontier
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maneuver itself away from potential impacts three times so far in 2020 alone.
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
Russia and China thus continue to lie beyond the reach of the Code, defeating
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impossible, and could risk further weakening rather than improving the Code. 242
Dr. 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
Are We Humans Doomed to Extinction?
What will we do when Earth's resources
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global space agreements, are part of this new pathway to the future.
Elizabeth 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
Donald Trump's March 21 interview with the Washington Post editorial board should make every potential
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might seem, the general actually had some support for his outlandish proposal.
And, resource shortages—-nuclear war
Frosty 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
"It is clear that most politicians and most citizens do not recognize that returning
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worst (and not unlikely) case, a nuclear war ending civilization.
Dr. 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.
The United States' space community has long understood the importance of having an inspirational vision
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leading opportunity to provide mutual reassurance and to build effective global governance institutions.
Duncan 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
It is future generations who have the strongest claim to preserve and even improve the
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man's entry into outer space" (the opening words of the OST)?
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
One solitary asteroid might be worth trillions of dollars in platinum and other metals.
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are responsible global citizens. And they'd get a citizen's dividend cheque too.