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0 - Contact InfoTournament: Contact Info | Round: 1 | Opponent: none | Judge: none | 9/20/21 |
0 - Organization NoteTournament: Contact Info | Round: 1 | Opponent: none | Judge: none | 9/20/21 |
1 - Comp WorldsTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 6 | Opponent: Leo Mokriski | Judge: Asher Towner 1~ Strat skewNelson 8 Adam F. Nelson, J.D.1. Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Lincoln-Douglas Debate. 2008. Bracketed for clarity AND know how the various options affect us and the world we live in. 3~ Truth testing violates LD rules.Nelson 08 ~Adam Nelson (Director of Lincoln-Douglas Debate at the Harker School) "Towards a Comprehensive Theory of LD" The Lincoln-Douglas Debate Theory Journal April 15th 2008 http://ldtheoryjournal.blogspot.com/2008/04/towards-comprehensive-theory-of-ld-adam.html JW~ AND the truth of part of the resolution is sufficient to earn the ballot. 4~ Inclusion –—-A~ TT justifies absurd NIBs and a prioris that are confusing to novices and lay debaters and deter them from the activity—-B~ A lot of small school debaters are K debaters to manage the res specific prepload—-C~ Comparative worlds is intuitive – that’s Nelson – that’s how novices default5~ Debate has no constitutive rules- every debate is functionally a new version of the activity.Enoch 11 Enoch, David (2011). Shmagency revisited in Michael Brady (ed.), New Waves in Metaethics, Palgrave-Macmillan. JW AND except perhaps in terms of inescapability, to which we will return shortly). | 9/20/21 |
1 - FWK UtilTournament: Meadows | Round: 1 | Opponent: Liam Lobl | Judge: Jada Stinnett The standard is maximizing expecting well being.1~ Actor specificity—-A~ Aggregation – every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action.—-B~ No act-omission distinction – choosing to omit is an act itself – governments actively decide not to act so there is no omission2~ Util is a lexical pre-requisite to any other framework: Threats to life preclude the ability for moral actors to effectively utilize and act upon other moral theories since they are in a constant state of crisis – that inhibits the ideal moral conditions which other theories presuppose.3~ Extinction matters under any framework:—-A~ It precludes the possibility of any kind of moral value – we can’t confer value onto anything if we’re not alive.—-B~ Future generations means infinite magnitude – we have to look towards future lives too | 10/30/21 |
1 - SpecTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 6 | Opponent: Leo Mokriski | Judge: Asher Towner 1Interpretation: the affirmative debater must specify in a delineated text in the 1AC their mechanism for reducing intellectual property.Violation: they don’tStandards:1~ Ground – this topic is vague as fuck it’s literally a policy topic – waivers, elimination, patents, evergreening, and a billion other different plans all have different DAs that link and different solvency mechanisms – no idea what DAs we can read or what NCs since even some phil authors have different opinions on different methods of reducing IPP2~ Logic – the res is logically incoherent on its own since "reducing IPP protections for medicines" is vacuous – also means you auto negate under truth testing3~ CX doesn’t check – a~ doesn’t solve pre round prep, which is also key to check the evidence ethics and qualifications of your definitions b~ judges don’t flow CX – even if this judge does it’s about the norm their interp sets c~ shiftiness – debaters waste my whole CX trying to get them to answer my questionsVote neg because fairness is constitutive of the game of debate, drop the debater bc their arg is their advocacy, competing interps because reasonability is arbitrary, no rvis – they’re illogical and chill theory by creating a disincentive.Yes 1nc theory:Key to check back against abusive affs. Deter future abuse. | 9/20/21 |
1 - T ExtraTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 3 | Opponent: AJ Darwin | Judge: Joel Lemuel TInterp: they must defend the res and only the resBritannica https://www.britannica.com/topic/World-Trade-Organization Extra T is a voterGround: They get infinite ground, fiat infinite scenarios, solve every disad, makes it possible to be the negPredictability:Voter for fairnessTVAs: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines by requiring each member state to be invested in open science that be made available to all countries as a global common.No 1AR theory a~ There is a 7-6-time skew after NC, negs get 1 less minute text: do the aff tmrw b~ They get new 2AR responses to 2NR counter-interps, that makes theory irresolvable because I don’t have a 3NR, and they win every theory debate because I can’t answer their responses c~ AC spikes solve there aren’t that many theory issues d~ deters 1NC abuse checking because of meta-theory, that means 6 minutes of aff abuse e~ infinite abuse doesn’t exist, 1~ 7 minutes if finite, 2~ resolvability is a pre-req to checking abuse, you cant check abuse on a irresolvable issue | 9/20/21 |
1 - T FwkTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 3 | Opponent: AJ Darwin | Judge: Joel Lemuel TInterpretation: The affirmative must defend the hypothetical implementation and consequences of a topical plan Standards:1) Arbitrariness:Our interpretation is the only predictable, non-arbitrary point of stasis because the resolution is determined by a neutral third party – taking the point of stasis out of the debater’s hands is the only way to ensure debate isn’t skewed to one side or another because neither the aff nor the neg picks it—it’s a procedural question because it implicates our ability to debate-independent voter2) Advocacy skills – constantly testing beliefs within debate teaches us to defend our views and persuasively provide justifications for our arguments – independently it’s key to argument testing which turns the aff – objective truth does not exist but testing ideas is necessary to come to intersubjective truths and actualizing the aff’s education3) Limits – infinite possible k affs they can readWe have no idea what they can read because it is outside the scope of the resolution, there are like thousands of critical authors and millions of possible performances. Explosion of limits destroys in depth research and clash – having a limited topic ensures we have the time to learn about the complex nature of surveillance– every area of scholarship is multifaceted but their model of debate proliferates horizontally to no end, creating shallow understandings of the literature itself and undermines debates potential to provide skills that allow debaters to dive vertically into literature 4) Switch SideThe affirmative holds to their beliefs so tightly that they refuse to switch sides and argue against their own ideals – this is a DOGMATIC WAY OF APROACHING the world that assumes the aff has already found capital T truthNo RVI because it incentivizes people to read abusive positions. Debate is a game Framing issue—Our impacts outweigh on probability because our internal link is largest. Debate is just a game. It teaches us about our world but doesn’t implicate our out of round advocacies. Just because someone reads a USFG plan, doesn’t mean they believe in the USFG. Debate just teaches us certain skills so we can be self-reflexive, analyze data, and make decisions. There’s no set beliefs for the real world therefore our internal link to decision making is very high. Their internal link to advocacy spillover is very low and not proven therefore prioritize our impacts.Theory and T are procedural arguments so no matter what the AFF, if they are taking education or fairness out of the round then I can’t even engage in the discussion they want. This means you evaluate T and theory first, because if both debaters are not properly able to engage in the discussion then there is no point in having this discussion in this round. AND round, where we are not constricted by speech times to this discussion. | 9/20/21 |
1 - Theory only resTournament: Meadows | Round: 1 | Opponent: Liam Lobl | Judge: Jada Stinnett | 10/30/21 |
2 - CP COVAXTournament: Meadows | Round: 4 | Opponent: Emmelyne Lay | Judge: Rafael Sanchez Counterplan: The World Trade Organization ought to-Increase covax support-prioritize trade facilitation-commit to aid for LDC’s-invest in pandemic preparednessVioleta Gonzalez 8-1-2021, "Opinion: 4 ways to promote vaccine equity through trade," Devex, https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-4-ways-to-promote-vaccine-equity-through-trade-100457 | 10/31/21 |
2 - CP CTAPTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 6 | Opponent: Leo Mokriski | Judge: Asher Towner Counterplan: The member nations of the World Trade Organization should mandate that pharmaceutical companies join and support the C-TAP in support of IP sharing of COVID vaccines.OECD 21 (February 4, 2021; "Coronavirus (COVID-19)vaccines for developing countries: An equal shot at recovery"; OECD; https://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/policy-responses/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccines-for-developing-countries-an-equal-shot-at-recovery-6b0771e6/ AND -pilot innovative solutions such as Advance Market Commitments and Product Development Partnerships. Pushing for more C-TAP support is the most important solution to COVID vaccine distribution now.Grace Ren 9/25/20 ("Progress On COVID-19 Technology Pool Inches Along As Sister Initiative To Pool Vaccine Procurement Accelerates"; Health Policy Watch; https://healthpolicy-watch.news/progress-on-covid-19-technology-pool-inches-along-as-sister-initiative-to-pool-vaccine-procurement-accelerates/) AND to extend to sharing technology and intellectual property for the global public good. | 9/20/21 |
2 - CP Evergreen AdvTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 1 | Opponent: Krish Kapoor | Judge: Vanessa Nguyen CPCP text: The member nations of the World Trade Organization should add more stringent requirements for filing secondary patents by requiring secondary patent filers to demonstrate increased efficacy as compared to the original. Solves all your offense by reducing purely strategic patents while permitting R and D for companies.Newsome 17, A ~(JD candidate George Washington School of Law). (2017). Side effects of evergreening may include decreased competition and increased prices in the pharmaceutical industry. AIPLA Quarterly Journal, 45(4), 791-822~ Justin AND could potentially conflict with the United States' TRIPS Agreement obligations with the WTO. Solves best.Newsome 17, A ~(JD candidate George Washington School of Law). (2017). Side effects of evergreening may include decreased competition and increased prices in the pharmaceutical industry. AIPLA Quarterly Journal, 45(4), 791-822~ Justin AND companies to enter the marketplace sooner and drive prices down through competition. 5 | 9/20/21 |
2 - CP US PICTournament: Meadows | Round: 1 | Opponent: Liam Lobl | Judge: Jada Stinnett Counterplan: The member states of the world trade organization except for the United States ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines, and the WTO ought to increase US intellectual property protections.Without IP there is no incentive for anyone in America to work towards the production of medicinesGIPC 19 The US funds world innovation by producing the most cutting edge drugs and selling them at lower pricesRyan Huber, 3-29-2017, "U.S. Health Care Reality Check ~#1: Pharmaceutical Innovation," Medium, https://medium.com/arc-digital/u-s-health-care-reality-check-1-pharmaceutical-innovation-574241fb80ba The U.S. is the most important state for innovation of non-molecular entities that means their uniquely k2 innovationKeyhani et al 10 | 10/30/21 |
2 - CP WorkersTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 3 | Opponent: AJ Darwin | Judge: Joel Lemuel CPCounterplan: The workers of the world should unite to create dual power political alternatives to capitalism. We must build independent communist institutions capable of surviving and defending themselves against the capitalist world. Not only does the alt solve for material violence in the transition period, it also eliminates the material and ideological dependences on capital that prevent revolution.Escalante 19 ~Alyson Escalante is a Marxist-Leninist, Materialist Feminist and Anti-Imperialist activist. "Communism and Climate Change: A Dual Power Approach" in Regeneration. March 26, 2019. https://regenerationmag.org/communism-and-climate-change-a-dual-power-approach/~~ KZaidi LK ~RCT 12/10/19~ AND out of time to act, and the stakes have never been higher. | 9/20/21 |
2 - CP tech transferTournament: Meadows | Round: 4 | Opponent: Emmelyne Lay | Judge: Rafael Sanchez Counterplan: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines by facilitating the technology transfer and licensing of manufacturing to other manufacturers to produce vaccines.Backed by the WTO Director-General and been proven to be effective.https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2021-03-24/international-wto-considers-waiving-certain-intellectual-property-protections-for-the-prevention-containment-and-treatment-of-covid-19/ AND in the case of AstraZeneca licensing manufacturing to the Serum Institute of India). | 10/31/21 |
2 - DA Innovation V1Tournament: Jack Howe | Round: 1 | Opponent: Krish Kapoor | Judge: Vanessa Nguyen DAInnovation high and evergreening is false – postdates your ev and we have statsEzell 20. Stephen Ezell, July 2020, "Ensuring U.S. Biopharmaceutical Competitiveness," Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, http://www2.itif.org/2020-biopharma-competitiveness.pdf sean! AND 70 percent for various forms of cancer, and 73 percent for cardiovascular diseases The aff is a solution in search of a problem – they eviscerate the utility of follow on innovations and fail to target the root cause of high drug problems.Holman 20 (Holman, Christopher M. "Why Pharmaceutical Follow-on Innovation Should Be Eligible for Patent Protection." Geneva Network, 7 Feb. 2020, geneva-network.com/research/why-pharmaceutical-follow-on-innovation-should-be-eligible-for-patent-protection/. ~Chris Holman joined C-IP2 as a Senior Scholar in 2014, and he became the Senior Fellow for Life Sciences at C-IP2 in August 2020. He is a Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, where his primary research focus lies at the intersection of intellectual property and biotechnology. He has published numerous articles in law reviews and scientific publications such as Science, Cell, and Nature Biotechnology, and has authored amicus briefs in a number of important biotechnology patent cases at the Supreme Court and Federal Circuit. In 2008 he was awarded the Daniel L Brenner Faculty Publishing Award for an influential law review article on human gene patent litigation. Prior to becoming a law professor, Holman served as vice-president of intellectual property and patent counsel at several Silicon Valley biotechnology companies and worked as an associate at a major intellectual property law firm. He was also a tenure-track chemistry professor in the California State University system.~)LK ~Accessed 8/23/2021~ AND poses a grave risk of greatly diminishing the pipeline of future medicinal breakthroughs. | 9/20/21 |
2 - DA Innovation V2Tournament: Jack Howe | Round: 3 | Opponent: AJ Darwin | Judge: Joel Lemuel Innovation DAMedical innovation high nowAustin et al 21, David Austin and Tamara Hayford Joseph Kile, Lyle Nelson, and Julie Topoleski. Christopher Adams, Pranav Bhandarkar, and David Wylie, April 2021, "Research and Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry" AND for nervous-system disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. IP protections motivate innovators to take risks – that means long term development and prolifBacchus '20 (James Bacchus; James Bacchus is a member of the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, the Distinguished University Professor of Global Affairs and director of the Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity at the University of Central Florida. He was a founding judge and was twice the chairman—the chief judge—of the highest court of world trade, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.; 12-16-2020; "An Unnecessary Proposal: A WTO Waiver of Intellectual Property Rights for COVID-19 Vaccines"; https://www.cato.org/free-trade-bulletin/unnecessary-proposal-wto-waiver-intellectual-property-rights-covid-19-vaccines~~#, Cato Institute, accessed 7-21-2021; JPark) AND to "foster innovation," they make no mention of IP rights.19 Innovation is k2 stopping bioterrorMarjanovic and Fejiao ‘20 Marjanovic, Sonja, and Carolina Feijao. Sonja Marjanovic, Ph.D., Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Carolina Feijao, Ph.D. in biochemistry, University of Cambridge; M.Sc. in quantitive biology, Imperial College London; B.Sc. in biology, University of Lisbon. "Pharmaceutical Innovation for Infectious Disease Management: From Troubleshooting to Sustainable Models of Engagement." https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA407-1.html (2020). ~Quality Control~ AND health threats to an even greater extent under improved innova-tion conditions. Bioterror is the largest medical threat—it o/w’s pandemics on probabilityBakerlee ‘21 Chris Bakerlee is a Ph.D. candidate studying evolutionary genetics at Harvard University and a fellow in the Council on Strategic Risks’s Fellowship for Ending Bioweapons Programs. "Mother Nature is not 'the ultimate bioterrorist' - STAT." STAT, 8 Jan. 2021, www.statnews.com/2021/01/08/mother-nature-is-not-the-ultimate-bioterrorist. ~Quality Control~ AND of evolving biological risks, striving toward solutions with open eyes and moral courage State-created bioweapons uniquely risk extinction in the hands of bioterroristsMillett and Snyder-Beattie ‘17. Millett, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford; and Snyder-Beattie, M.S., Director of Research, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford. 08-01-2017. "Existential Risk and Cost-Effective Biosecurity," Health Security, 15(4), PubMed -CAT AND still ought to invest more in preventing the most extreme possible biosecurity catastrophes. | 9/20/21 |
2 - DA Innovation V3Tournament: Meadows | Round: 4 | Opponent: Emmelyne Lay | Judge: Rafael Sanchez Removing patents for just covid undermines incentives to innovateNC Bioscience Organization, "Vaccine patent waiver breaks faith with American companies, stifles innovation" https://www.ncbioscience.net/2021/05/13/55544/ AND pandemics and avoid setting a precedent that undermines the entire US innovation economy. Turn—innovation is k2 resolving covid in the futureDa Silva 7-21 AND order to monitor the escalation of the pandemic and propose adequate public policies. Innovation necessary for booster shots against future variantsJared S. Hopkins, 4-15-2021, "Annual Covid-19 Vaccine Booster Shots Likely Needed, Pfizer CEO Says," WSJ, https://www.wsj.com/articles/annual-covid-19-vaccine-booster-shots-likely-needed-pfizer-ceo-says-11618520527 AND company plans to expand its vaccine business by becoming a leader in mRNA. New strains are more infectious delta proves—that o/w’s on scopeAshley Hagen 7-30-2021, "How Dangerous Is the Delta Variant (B.1.617.2)?," ASM.org, https://asm.org/Articles/2021/July/How-Dangerous-is-the-Delta-Variant-B-1-617-2 AND Minutes, ASM's monthly video series of trending topics in the microbial sciences. | 10/31/21 |
2 - DA US China RelationsTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 1 | Opponent: Krish Kapoor | Judge: Vanessa Nguyen DADespite growing rivalry, US-China economic interdependence strong now. Exchange of tech know-how, collaboration science research, and massive US-China STEM pipeline improving relations – but it can easily collapse.Hass 8/12 ~Ryan Hass (Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center The Michael H. Armacost Chair Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies Nonresident Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School), 8-12-2021, "The "new normal" in US-China relations: Hardening competition and deep interdependence," Brookings, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/08/12/the-new-normal-in-us-china-relations-hardening-competition-and-deep-interdependence/ belle~ AND — for good or ill — by their capacity to address common challenges. Plan hurts US-China relations – means China goes back on it’s promise to regulate IP violations and draws in U.S. crackdown.Shape 2/19 ~Steven M. Shape; registered patent attorney and electrical engineer who has represented preeminent technology companies in complex, high-stakes Intellectual Property litigation; 2-19-2021, "IP Law Looms Large Over U.S.-China Relations," No Publication, https://www.mondaq.com/trademark/1038030/ip-law-looms-large-over-us-china-relations belle~ AND reliable IP services provider to help establish strong protection for their intangible assets. Maintaining US-China relations key to confidence building, dialogue measures, and address mutual anxieties about nukes — that prevents nuke war.CSIS ’13 ~CSIS (CSIS is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Center’s 220 full- time staff and large network of affiliated scholars conduct research and analysis and develop policy initiatives that look into the future and anticipate change), March 2013, " Nuclear Weapons and U.S.-China Relations a way forward," Center for Strategic and International Studies, https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/legacy'files/files/publication/130307'Colby'USChinaNuclear'Web.pdf belle~ AND force size, posture, and doctrine as satisfactory and compatible with stability. US-China war causes extinction.Wittner, PhD, 12 AND that of the world, they should be working to encourage these policies. | 9/20/21 |
2 - K NuclearismTournament: Meadows | Round: 4 | Opponent: Emmelyne Lay | Judge: Rafael Sanchez Specifically when their Hamann 09 card says "The work of the WTO cannot be overstated in a nuclear-armed world"; roblin 21 and mead 13 cards all talk of "nuclear war" scenariosMasco 14 ~Joseph Masco, Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. 2008 Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science and the 2006 Robert K. Merton Prize from the Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology of the American Sociology Association. His work has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Wenner-Gren Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. "The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror." Pg. epilogue~ AND the psychosocial space defined by the once and future promise of nuclear ruins. ====The need to produce increasingly apocalyptic visions perpetuates atmospheres of violence and ensures that every grasp at security will only ever produce more insecurity. The aff wears the mask of rationality while actually planting the seeds of collective suicide by playing with the language of extermination, reproducing the same failed logic of nuclear security and then blackmailing us with the precarity of a situation they themselves have created.==== AND ? What would it take to consider an actual end to such ends? ====Reject the aff and endorse our critical interrogation of the rhetoric of security and insecurity. Your ballot represents a break with the nuclear mindset and the possibility of constructing a new and more human sense of meaning.==== AND others to question the meaning and motives of what they see and hear. | 10/31/21 |
2 - T ReduceTournament: Meadows | Round: 4 | Opponent: Emmelyne Lay | Judge: Rafael Sanchez Interp: The aff on the 2021 Septermber/October LD topic must defend a reduction and not an elimination of intellectual property protections for medicines.Reduce does not mean to eliminateMarcus Perrin Knowlton, Late Chief Justice Of The Supreme Judicial Court Of Massachusetts, Opinion in Dora Green v. Abraham Sklar, June 20, 1905, Lexis Academic Violation: They eliminate cx checks1~ Limits, the aff gets to venture outside of the limits of the resolution—that gives them infinite ground because they can arbitrarily change words in the res.Jurisdiction, judges can only vote on affs that affirm the resolution a~ norms, we came to round prepared to debate the topic anything else is arbitrary is a waste of time b~ the aff burden is to affirm the resolution—anything else means you negateParadigm issues1~ Fairness first—debate is a game if its not fair people wont play2~ T is DTD a~ the plan represents the whole aff b~ DTD sets norms3~ Competing interps a~ reasonability is arbitrary and requires judge intervention b~ competing interps is a race to the top4~ no RVI a~ incentives theory baiting which is justified abuse b~ illogical—you don’t get a cookie for being fair5~ T before theory a~ they have 4 years to set their norm we have 2 months b~ any NC abuse was necessary to check 1AC abuse | 10/31/21 |
4 - DA Mining V1Tournament: Strake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Aarush Tripathi | Judge: Joshua St Peter Commercial asteroid mining is coming now – lower costs and improving tech make it economically viable – and the legal basis is already in place in multiple countries– that helps acquire water for rocket fuel and rare earth metalsGilbert 21 alex gilbert, is a complex systems researcher and a PhD student in space resources at the Colorado School of Mines. "Mining in Space Is Coming." Milken Institute Review, April 26, 2021, www.milkenreview.org/articles/mining-in-space-is-coming. ~Quality Control~ AND making the transition from fossil fuels to renewables backed up by battery storage. However, the legal framework that strikes the best balance of providing economic incentives for mining while preventing unbeneficial land claims requires a doctrine of appropriation – the plan prevents thatMeyers 15 Meyers, Ross. J.D. candidate at the University of Oregon Law School. "The doctrine of appropriation and asteroid mining: incentivizing the private exploration and development of outer space." Or. Rev. Int'l L. 17 (2015): 183. Italics in original. ~Quality Control~ AND the human race in its expansion into the space, the final frontier. Asteroid mining offsets terrestrial growth that ruins the environment and enables solar power satellites – both solve climate changeTaylor 19 Chris Taylor is a veteran journalist. Previously senior news writer for Time.com a year later. In 2000, he was named San Francisco bureau chief for Time magazine. He has served as senior editor for Business 2.0, West Coast editor for Fortune Small Business and West Coast web editor for Fast Company. Chris is a graduate of Merton College, Oxford and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. "How asteroid mining will save the Earth — and mint trillionaires." Mashable, 2019, mashable.com/feature/asteroid-mining-space-economy. ~Quality Control~ AND how relatively easy it is to ship stuff in zero-G environments. | 12/27/21 |
4 - DA Mining V2Tournament: Stake | Round: 3 | Opponent: Trisha Sharma | Judge: Dylan Jones Commercial asteroid mining is coming now – lower costs and improving tech make it economically viable – and the legal basis is already in place in multiple countries– that helps acquire water for rocket fuel and rare earth metalsGilbert 21 alex gilbert, is a complex systems researcher and a PhD student in space resources at the Colorado School of Mines. "Mining in Space Is Coming." Milken Institute Review, April 26, 2021, www.milkenreview.org/articles/mining-in-space-is-coming. ~Quality Control~ AND making the transition from fossil fuels to renewables backed up by battery storage. However, the legal framework that strikes the best balance of providing economic incentives for mining while preventing unbeneficial land claims requires a doctrine of appropriation – the plan prevents thatMeyers 15 Meyers, Ross. J.D. candidate at the University of Oregon Law School. "The doctrine of appropriation and asteroid mining: incentivizing the private exploration and development of outer space." Or. Rev. Int'l L. 17 (2015): 183. Italics in original. ~Quality Control~ AND the human race in its expansion into the space, the final frontier. Asteroid mining solves rare earth metal depletion – prevents tech stagnation and unsustainable resource extractionMitchell 20 Robin Mitchell is an electronic engineer who has been involved in electronics since the age of 13. After completing a BEng at the University of Warwick, Robin moved into the field of online content creation developing articles. "How might asteroid mining be key to electronics future?" 28-09-2020, www.electropages.com/blog/2020/09/how-might-asteroid-mining-be-key-electronics-future. ~Quality Control~ AND that orbit the sun, planets, and rings around Saturn / Jupiter. Both of those cause extinctionBell 19 Aidan Bell is the co-founder of EnviroBuild, a sustainable building materials company based in London. PhD from Manchester in Inorganic Chemistry. "The Conflict of Tech Innovation and Sustainability." TechNative, 22 Jan. 2019, technative.io/the-conflict-of-tech-innovation-and-sustainability. ~Quality Control~ AND with NASA already developing spacecraft to push approaching asteroids out of our orbit. | 12/27/21 |
4 - DA get off the rock V1Tournament: Strake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Aarush Tripathi | Judge: Joshua St Peter NASA’s stuck in low orbit but the space race lets it extend further. Julie 12-9Alyssa Julie, 12-9-2021, "How the private space race is allowing NASA to explore new frontiers ," Global News, https://globalnews.ca/news/8408558/how-the-private-space-race-is-allowing-nasa-to-explore-new-frontiers/, hzheng AND for scientists and astronomers hoping to conduct research in space, Rogerson adds. We need to get off the rock – diversification ensures isolated populations prevent extinction and bolsters tech that mitigates existential threats. Reuter 12-9Timothy Reuter (Head of Aerospace and Drones, World Economic Forum), 12-9-2021, "Why the human race must become a multiplanetary species," World Economic Forum, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/12/humans-multiplanetary-species/, hzheng AND rights abuses to how we present ourselves to potential mates on dating apps. And, solves climate change via monitoring and tech race. Broom 12-2Douglas Broom (Senior Writer, Formative Content), 12-2-2021, "The space tech keeping tabs on COP26 carbon pledges," World Economic Forum, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/12/satellites-ai-saving-planet, hzheng AND summit when he told The New York Times: "That changes everything." | 12/27/21 |
4 - DA get off the rock V2Tournament: Stake | Round: 3 | Opponent: Trisha Sharma | Judge: Dylan Jones NASA’s stuck in low orbit but the space race lets it extend further. Julie 12-9Alyssa Julie, 12-9-2021, "How the private space race is allowing NASA to explore new frontiers ," Global News, https://globalnews.ca/news/8408558/how-the-private-space-race-is-allowing-nasa-to-explore-new-frontiers/, hzheng AND for scientists and astronomers hoping to conduct research in space, Rogerson adds. We need to get off the rock – diversification ensures isolated populations prevent extinction and bolsters tech that mitigates existential threats. Reuter 12-9Timothy Reuter (Head of Aerospace and Drones, World Economic Forum), 12-9-2021, "Why the human race must become a multiplanetary species," World Economic Forum, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/12/humans-multiplanetary-species/, hzheng AND rights abuses to how we present ourselves to potential mates on dating apps. And, solves environment via monitoring and tech race. Broom 12-2Douglas Broom (Senior Writer, Formative Content), 12-2-2021, "The space tech keeping tabs on COP26 carbon pledges," World Economic Forum, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/12/satellites-ai-saving-planet, hzheng AND tracked. A fifth of the world’s fish supplies come from illegal fishing. Warming causes extinction and it’s try or die. Spratt 19David Spratt, Research Director for Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, Ian Dunlop, member of the Club of Rome, formerly an international oil, gas and coal industry executive, chairman of the Australian Coal Association, May 2019, "Existential climate-related security risk: A scenario approach," https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/148cb0'b2c0c79dc4344b279bcf2365336ff23b.pdf, recut hzheng AND the "fat-tail" outcomes, as illustrated in Figure 1. | 12/27/21 |
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