Tournament: GDSDA 5 | Round: 3 | Opponent: IDK | Judge: IDK
Bostrom, 2011 – Gannon Award winning Director of the Future of Humanity Institute, (Nicholas "The Concept of Existential Risk," Draft of a Paper published on ExistentialRisk.com, Available Online at http://www.existentialrisk.com/concept.html, Accessed 07-04-2011)
Holding probability constant, risks become more serious as we move toward the upper-
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the positive value of the direct benefit of such an action.~13~
Posner, 2004 - Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School ~Richard, Catastrophe: Risk and Response 249-250~
Even if our insouciant reaction to small probabilities of great losses is accepted as an
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to incur some cost in higher taxes or otherwise to reduce the risk.
1. Asteroid impacts are inevitable and would threaten humanity – we don't have enough resources dedicated to this issue despite its importance.
Afrasiabi 2017 – scholar at the Center For Strategic Research, Tehran ~Kaveh L. US-Russia And The Asteroid Threat – OpEd, April 13, https://www.eurasiareview.com/13042017-us-russia-and-the-asteroid-threat-oped/~~
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has just finished his visit in Moscow to discuss
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sidelined due to the preoccupation with geopolitical considerations, pointing at humanity's folly.
Steel 2002 - Joule Physics Laboratory, University of Salford ~Duncan October 24, , "Neo Impact Hazard: the Cancer Metaphor" NASA Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids, http://www.noao.edu/meetings/mitigation/media/arlington.extended.pdf ~
The Cancer Metaphor: Why facing up to hazardous asteroids and comets is like dealing
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major earthquakes or volcanic eruptions, or halting a hurricane in its path.
1. Privatization is key to planetary defense – private companies can maximize technology and investment
Melamed 2018 - project leader in The Aerospace Corporation's Vehicle Systems Division ~Nahum "Planetary Defense Against Asteroid Strikes: Risks, Options, And Costs" January 2018. Center for Space Policy and Strategy. https://aerospace.org/sites/default/files/2018-05/NEO-Defense_0.pdf~~
Experimental missions involving asteroids include the recently canceled Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM)17
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program itself and support the growth of public interest and investment in space.
2. Privatization of property on the Moon help develop launch and landing technology which aids asteroid deflection
Augustine, 2009 - Chairman of the Review of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans Committee ~Augustine Commission, "Seeking A Human Spaceflight Program Worthy Of A Great Nation", October https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290979455_Seeking_a_human_spaceflight_program_worthy_of_a_great_nation~~
Because the Flexible Path option contained a commercially developed lunar lander descent stage, it
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could be the basis for a new or extended international partnerships in space.
Bottke, 2004 - Southwest Research Institute ~William F. with Alessandro Morbidelli, and Robert Jedicke; "Mitigation Of Hazardous Comets And Asteroids" https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/mitigation-of-hazardous-comets-and-asteroids/E9C52EFD30EBDDECA63888AEED3FF463~~
It is now generally accepted that impacts of large NEOs represent a hazard to human
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NEOs and Earth, action can be taken to mitigate the potential consequences.