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| All | 1 | Opponent: Oxford VM | Judge: Raffi Piliero oxford vm was crushed |
| All | 1 | Opponent: All | Judge: All watchu doin |
| Harvard | 1 | Opponent: George Washington MP | Judge: Amelia Ritenour 1AC - cap |
| Harvard | 4 | Opponent: Ogando Independent GO | Judge: Momo 1AC - antiblackness |
| Kansas City | 2 | Opponent: Wichita East CH | Judge: Amy Nyberg 1AC - morten |
| Kansas City | 4 | Opponent: Solebury LN | Judge: Miguel Molina Chavez 1AC - collisions |
| Kansas City | 5 | Opponent: Denver East SB | Judge: Aryana Booth 1AC - authoritarianism |
| Kansas City | Finals | Opponent: Wichita East KH | Judge: Kevin Krouse, Parker Hopkins, Matthew Wilkinson 1AC - space wars |
| UNLV | 1 | Opponent: Pine View EL | Judge: Parth Misra 1AC - china |
| UNLV | 3 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley LS | Judge: Eze N 1AC - warming |
| UNLV | 6 | Opponent: Havard Westlake AL | Judge: Gordon Krauss 1AC - inequality |
| UNLV | Doubles | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: David McGinnis, Chris Castillo, Nikhil Navare 1AC - ukraine |
| UNLV | Octas | Opponent: Plano East RP | Judge: Parth Misra, Chris Castillo, Lei Yoyo ev ethics |
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0 --- contact informationTournament: All | Round: 1 | Opponent: Oxford VM | Judge: Raffi Piliero | 1/29/22 |
0 --- debatedrillsTournament: All | Round: 1 | Opponent: All | Judge: All 1) Roster and Conflict Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BJ9lWr2hMGtyNVsi4JlQ4fL9YZ084EYLQejwpGoZFCU/edit?usp=sharing 2) Code of Conduct and Relevant Team Policies: 3) Harassment/Bullying Complaint Form: https://forms.gle/c4npvCuawT9Kgv9n7 | 1/31/22 |
1 --- disclosure ethicsTournament: UNLV | Round: 3 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley LS | Judge: Eze N Interpretation: debaters can’t lie about what whether their aff is new.Violation: ''' – screenshots above.Vote negative for ethics and competitive equity – academic dishonesty in the real world gets students kicked out of college and a norm where debaters can say that their aff is new and then at 2 minutes before the round say its not means debaters don’t have to disclose which makes making effective ncs impossible and means we can’t read through their evidence to determine it wasn’t cut in an unethical way.DD, CI, No RVI, ethics, F | 2/6/22 |
1 --- flip disclosureTournament: UNLV | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: David McGinnis, Chris Castillo, Nikhil Navare Interpretation: debaters must disclose the aff prior to the deadline for the coin flip 30 min before the round.Violation: they didn’t until after the flip – they asked me before and I told them though.Vote negative for reciprocity – they have a huge strategic edge if they know what my aff is before the flip but I don’t know what theirs is which hurts strat because it determines what side debaters flip and we are left to guess a side. They’ll say text works better but they contacted me on email and didn’t send the aff via text.Fairness and education are voters – debate’s a game that needs rules to evaluate it and education gives us portable skills for life like research and thinking.Drop the debater – a) they have a 7-6 rebuttal advantage and the 2ar to make args I can’t respond to, b) it deters future abuse and sets a positive norm.Use competing interps – a) reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention since we don’t know your bs meter, b) collapses to competing interps – we justify 2 brightlines under an offense defense paradigm just like 2 interpsNo RVIs – a) illogical – you shouldn’t win for being fair – it’s a litmus test for engaging in substance, b) norming – I can’t concede the counterinterp if I realize I’m wrong which forces me to argue for bad norms, c) chilling effect – incentivizes you to read an abuse AC and go for the RVI, d) topic ed – prevents 1AR blipstorm scripts and allows us to get back to substance after resolving theoryEvaluate theory about the aff advocacy first – a) norms – we only have a couple months to set topic norms but can set 1AR theory norms anytime, b) magnitude – the aff advocacy affects a larger portion of the debate since it determines every speech after it and pre round neg prepThey can’t weigh the case—lack of preround prep means their truth claims are untested which you should presume false—they’re also only winning case because we couldn’t engage with it | 2/7/22 |
1 --- open sourceTournament: Harvard | Round: 4 | Opponent: Ogando Independent GO | Judge: Momo A is the Interpretation: Debaters must disclose all constructive speech docs open source with highlighting on the NDCA LD wiki within an hour after debatingB is the Violation:
Standards1~ Small School Inclusivity – Disclosure levels the playing field for information and accessibility, and preparedness. Large schools have the ability to send large amounts of coaches to go scout rounds and get docs from those rounds that small schools don’t that the structural ability to do, but open source allows access to information and content equal to all debaters.This outweighs and turns their offenseA~ Black Scholarship- not everyone is privileged enough to go to enough tournaments to be exposes to a myriad of black scholarship. Disclosure makes sure debaters of color can have meaningful dialogue and engagement with identity arguments which comes prior to even them reading the affB~ Arguments about a structural skew don’t matter since big schools will always have structural advantages and scouting teams which destroy competitive equity2~ Educational BenefitsA~ Research –Disclosure creates a high incentive to do deeper and more focused research, since debaters quickly learn the stock arguments and can-do specific research that they know will be useful. That Outweighs on exportability since the rigorous testing of arguments is something, we inevitably confront toxic positions in the real world. Only disclosue for rigorous research strategies which creates more nuanced understandings of arguments.B~ Academic honesty – Disclosure de-incentivizes miscutting or exaggerating evidence since opponents will recut your evidence and call you out. That creates habits of honesty and retains the intellectual integrity of the activity. This is the only standard that has clear out of round impacts. It comes prior to their impacts because we couldn’t clearly check their cardsThey’ll say we are policing them- there is a few responses1~ Disclosure applies to everyone- saying we are policing you assumes disproportionate enforcement which isn’t our interp.2~ Endorsing a norm as a good idea is not policing just that we should have certain disclosure norms that are good | 2/19/22 |
1 --- t implementationTournament: Kansas City | Round: Finals | Opponent: Wichita East KH | Judge: Kevin Krouse, Parker Hopkins, Matthew Wilkinson Interpretation – the affirmative must defend the resolution through governmental implementation.The text of the resolution calls for debate on hypothetical government action: "Resolved" means to enact a policy by law.Words and Phrases ’64 (Words and Phrases; 1964; Permanent Edition) AND ," which is defined by Bouvier as meaning "to establish by law". Government action is necessary to regulate private entities.Blaustein 18 (Blaustein, Richard. "Private-Sector Space Activities Require Government Regulation, Says US Report." Physics World, IOP Publishing, 4 July 2018, physicsworld.com/a/private-sector-space-activities-require-government-regulation-says-us-report/.)DebateDrills AY AND for his firm Blue Origin to send a manned mission to the Moon. Violation:Standards:1~ Policy ed – analyzing the nuances of a policy from the perspective of a policymaker is the most real world which o/w on scope2~ Critical ed – enables cps, da links that test intrinsicness and lead to a more in-depth debate.3~ Resolution is a stasis point – | 1/31/22 |
3 --- util ncTournament: Kansas City | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wichita East CH | Judge: Amy Nyberg The standard is maximizing expected well-being1~ Extinction outweighs under any frameworkPummer 15 ~Theron, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. "Moral Agreement on Saving the World" Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. May 18, 2015~ AT AND be acting very wrongly." (From chapter 36 of On What Matters) 2~ Phenomenal introspection —- it’s the most epistemically reliable —- historical moral disagreement over internal conceptions of morality such as questions of race, gender, class, religion, etc prove the fallibility of non-observational based ethics —- introspection means we value happiness because we can determine that we each value it —- just as I can observe a lemon’s yellowness, we can make those judgements about happiness.3~ Only consequentialism explains degrees of wrongness—if I break a promise to meet up for lunch, that is not as bad as breaking a promise to take a dying person to the hospital. Only the consequences of breaking the promise explain why the second one is much worse than the first. Intuitions outweigh—they’re the foundational basis for any argument and theories that contradict our intuitions are most likely false even if we can’t deductively determine why4~ No intent-foresight distinction – If we foresee a consequence, then it becomes part of our deliberation which makes it intrinsic to our action since we intend it to happen5~ Reject calc indicts:A~ Empirically denied—both individuals and policymakers carry out effective cost-benefit analysis which means even if decisions aren’t always perfect it’s still better than not acting at allB~ Theory—they’re functionally NIBs that everyone knows are silly but skew the aff and move the debate away from the topic and actual philosophical debate, killing valuable education6~ Governments must aggregate because their policies benefit some and harm others so the only non-arbitrary way to prioritize is by helping the most amount of people. o/w since different agents have different ethical obligationsMack 4 ~(Peter, MBBS, FRCS(Ed), FRCS (Glasg), PhD, MBA, MHlthEcon) "Utilitarian Ethics in Healthcare." International Journal of the Computer, the Internet, and Management Vol. 12, No.3. 2004. Department of Surgery. Singapore General Hospital.~ SJDI AND the utility and any non-utility aspects of the situation are ignored. 7~ Psychological evidence proves we don’t identify with our future selves.Opar 14. Alisa Opar (articles editor at Audubon magazine; cites Hal Hershfield, an assistant professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business; and Emily Pronin, a psychologist at Princeton) "Why We Procrastinate" Nautilus January 2014 AND says Pronin, like we think of others: in the third person. | 1/29/22 |
3 --- util nc v2Tournament: UNLV | Round: 6 | Opponent: Havard Westlake AL | Judge: Gordon Krauss The standard is utilitarianism1~ Extinction outweighs under any frameworkPummer 15 ~Theron, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. "Moral Agreement on Saving the World" Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. May 18, 2015~ AT AND be acting very wrongly." (From chapter 36 of On What Matters) Weigh magnitude times probability—-"probability first" framing is rooted in psychological biases and leads to mass deathClarke 08 ~Lee, member of a National Academy of Science committee that considered decision-making models, Anschutz Distinguished Scholar at Princeton University, Fellow of AAAS, Professor Sociology (Rutgers), Ph.D. (SUNY), "Possibilistic Thinking: A New Conceptual Tool for Thinking about Extreme Events," Fall, Social Research 75.3, JSTOR~ AND and that we can be smarter about responding to disasters by doing so. Governments must aggregate because their policies benefit some and harm others so the only non-arbitrary way to prioritize is by helping the most amount of people. o/w since different agents have different ethical obligationsMack 4 ~(Peter, MBBS, FRCS(Ed), FRCS (Glasg), PhD, MBA, MHlthEcon) "Utilitarian Ethics in Healthcare." International Journal of the Computer, the Internet, and Management Vol. 12, No.3. 2004. Department of Surgery. Singapore General Hospital.~ SJDI AND the utility and any non-utility aspects of the situation are ignored. | 2/6/22 |
janfeb --- asteroid mining picTournament: Kansas City | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wichita East CH | Judge: Amy Nyberg Counterplan: Property rights for asteroids should be governed by the doctrine of appropriation. Private appropriation of non-asteroid celestial bodies should be prohibited.No link turns — rules of appropriation solve waste and abstract claims and alternative approaches don’tMyers 16 — Ross Myers (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, 2016, Oregon Review of International Law, https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/19850/Meyers.pdf?sequence=1 WJ AND of appropriation should replace existing outdated international space law relating to asteroids.’ Asteroid mining is an unqualified good – it’s essential to advanced asteroid deflection, deep space travel, and fighting climate changeHeise 18 — Jack Heise (Judicial Law Clerk at U.S. Courts of Appeals), Space, the Final Frontier of Enterprise: Incentivizing Asteroid Mining Under a Revised International Framework, 40 Mich. J. Int'l L. 189 (2018). https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjil/vol40/iss1/5 WJ AND countering climate change—would inure substantially to the benefit of all mankind. Asteroids have no significance beyond their finite resources – property rights for asteroids are necessary for deep space travel and rare metalsMyers 16 — Ross Myers (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, 2016, Oregon Review of International Law, https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/19850/Meyers.pdf?sequence=1 WJ AND claims by either private or government entities on celestial objects are prohibited.46 Appropriation" means to take as property which includes miningThis definition is 100x better than any neg evidence – it’s contextual to space mining and the OST. It also conducts a common-use analysis of the word and a historical analysis of the OST’s writing and concludes that both support that appropriation includes mining | 1/29/22 |
janfeb --- heg daTournament: Kansas City | Round: 4 | Opponent: Solebury LN | Judge: Miguel Molina Chavez Commercial Space Race favors American Companies that cements space dominance – shift away endangers our lead – losing green-lights Chinese Dominance across the board.Autry and Kwast 19 Greg Autry and Steve Kwast 8-22-2019 "America Is Losing the Second Space Race to China" (Greg Autry, a clinical professor of space leadership, policy, and business at Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management, and Steve Kwast)Elmer AND conflict while securing a better economic future for the nation and the world. Public sector space growth undermines innovation necessary to maintain U.S space dominance.Beames 21 ~Charles Beames, Charles is currently the Executive Chairman of York Space Systems, a leader in commercial satellite design and manufacturing, as well as Chairman of the SmallSat Alliance. He is also a retired Air Force Colonel, having served 23 years in space and intelligence leadership positions around the world, 9-30-2021, Forbes, "It Is Time Our Government Stops Competing Against The Commercial Space Industry", https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlesbeames/2021/09/30/it-is-time-our-government-stops-competing-against-the-commercial-space-industry/ accessed on 12-21-2021~ Adam AND very technologies we hope to leverage to secure America’s promising future in space. Hegemony solves Extinction.Ikenberry 20 John Ikenberry 6-9-2020 "The Next Liberal Order: The Age of Contagion Demands More Internationalism, Not Less" https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-06-09/next-liberal-order (Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University, in South Korea)Elmer AND bad news is that it is far from certain that it will not. Specifically, solves Nuclear War – shift causes Transition Wars.Khalizad 16 Zalmay Khalizad 3-23-2016 "4 Lessons about America's Role in the World" http://nationalinterest.org/feature/4-lessons-about-americas-role-the-world-15574?page=show (former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, counselor at the CSIS)Elmer AND power in key regions while seeking opportunities to reconcile differences among major actors. | 1/29/22 |
janfeb --- heg da v2Tournament: Kansas City | Round: 5 | Opponent: Denver East SB | Judge: Aryana Booth Commercial Space Race favors American Companies that cements space dominance – shift away endangers our lead – losing green-lights Chinese Dominance across the board.Autry and Kwast 19 Greg Autry and Steve Kwast 8-22-2019 "America Is Losing the Second Space Race to China" (Greg Autry, a clinical professor of space leadership, policy, and business at Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management, and Steve Kwast)Elmer AND conflict while securing a better economic future for the nation and the world. Appropriation uniquely key for private sector.Cheng 20 ~Dean Cheng, 09-16-2020, "Outer Space and Private Property," Heritage Foundation, https://www.heritage.org/space-policy/commentary/outer-space-and-private-property~~//DDPT AND are not sure that they will be able to profit from their investments. Public sector space growth undermines innovation necessary to maintain U.S space dominance.Beames 21 ~Charles Beames, Charles is currently the Executive Chairman of York Space Systems, a leader in commercial satellite design and manufacturing, as well as Chairman of the SmallSat Alliance. He is also a retired Air Force Colonel, having served 23 years in space and intelligence leadership positions around the world, 9-30-2021, Forbes, "It Is Time Our Government Stops Competing Against The Commercial Space Industry", https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlesbeames/2021/09/30/it-is-time-our-government-stops-competing-against-the-commercial-space-industry/ accessed on 12-21-2021~ Adam AND very technologies we hope to leverage to secure America’s promising future in space. Hegemony solves Extinction.Ikenberry 20 John Ikenberry 6-9-2020 "The Next Liberal Order: The Age of Contagion Demands More Internationalism, Not Less" https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-06-09/next-liberal-order (Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University, in South Korea)Elmer AND bad news is that it is far from certain that it will not. Specifically, solves Nuclear War – shift causes Transition Wars.Khalizad 16 Zalmay Khalizad 3-23-2016 "4 Lessons about America's Role in the World" http://nationalinterest.org/feature/4-lessons-about-americas-role-the-world-15574?page=show (former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, counselor at the CSIS)Elmer AND power in key regions while seeking opportunities to reconcile differences among major actors. | 1/29/22 |
janfeb --- innovation daTournament: UNLV | Round: 3 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley LS | Judge: Eze N Space Commercialization drives Tech Innovation in the Status Quo – it provides a unique impetus.Hampson 17 Joshua Hampson 1-25-2017 "The Future of Space Commercialization" https://republicans-science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/TheFutureofSpaceCommercializationFinal.pdf (Security Studies Fellow at the Niskanen Center)Elmer AND to global networks, and new opportunities could lead to wider economic growth. Strong Innovation solves Extinction.Matthews 18 Dylan Matthews 10-26-2018 "How to help people millions of years from now" https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/26/18023366/far-future-effective-altruism-existential-risk-doing-good (Co-founder of Vox, citing Nick Beckstead @ Rutgers University)Re-cut by Elmer AND far future, then effective altruism just becomes plain ol’ do-goodery. | 2/6/22 |
janfeb --- kant ncTournament: UNLV | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: David McGinnis, Chris Castillo, Nikhil Navare Permissibility and presumption negate – ~a~ the resolution indicates the aff has to prove an obligation, and permissibility would deny the existence of an obligation ~b~ Statements are more often false than true because any part can be false. This means you negate if there is no offense because the resolution is probably false.The metaethic is practical reason. Prefer:~1~ Regress – Ethical theories must have a basis. We can always ask why we should follow the basis of a theory, so they aren’t morally binding because they don’t have a starting point. Practical reason solves – When we ask why we should follow reason, we demand a reason, which concedes to the authority of reason itself, so it’s the only thing we can follow~2~ Action Theory – Every action can be broken down to infinite amounts of movements, i.e. me moving my arm can be broken down to the infinite moments of every state my arm is in. Only reason can unify these movements because we use practical reason to achieve our goals, means all actions collapse to reasonPractical reason means we all have a unified perspective: What can be justified to me can be justified to everyone who is a practical reasoner. If I can conclude that 2+2 is 4, then I understand not only that I know 2+2 is 4, but that everyone around me can arrive at the same conclusion. These things are temporally consistent: I know that me adding two numbers now and taking that sum will not result in me adding the same two numbers in the future and getting a different sum. Our unified perspective does not change but rather stays consistent.But, willing an action that violates the freedom of others is a contradiction: If I decide to kill someone, that action is not universalizable because that would justify other people killing me too. If I die, I cannot exercise my freedom to kill someone else. This is a contradiction: I both justify extending my freedom to kill others and limiting my own freedom.Prefer the standard: ~a~ freedom is the key to the process of justification of arguments. Willing that we should abide by their ethical theory presupposes that we own ourselves in the first place. Thus, it is logically incoherent to justify the neg arguments/standard without first willing that we can pursue ends free from others ~b~ Induction is circular because it relies on the assumption that nature will hold uniform and we could only reach that conclusion through inductive reasoning based on observation of past events – takes out their offense and framing since it’s predicated on past experiences ~c~ resource disparities—a focus on evidence and statistics privileges debaters with the most preround prep which excludes lone-wolfs who lack huge evidence files. A debate under my framework can easily be won without any prep since only analytical arguments are required. That controls the internal link to other voters because a pre-req to debating is access to the activity and comes first since framework is just a T debate about the word ought which up layers substantive justifications.Thus, the standard is respecting freedom.Initial acquisition of property can never be unjust – to create rights violations, there must already be an owner of the property being violated, but that presupposes its appropriation by another entity.Feser, (Edward Feser, 1-1-2005, accessed on 12-15-2021, Cambridge University Press, "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN UNJUST INITIAL ACQUISITION | Social Philosophy and Policy | Cambridge Core", Edward C. Feser is an American philosopher. He is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-philosophy-and-policy/article/abs/there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-unjust-initial-acquisition/5C744D6D5C525E711EC75F75BF7109D1)~~brackets for gen lang~phs st AND , then, for there to be any injustices in initial acquisition.7 | 2/7/22 |
janfeb --- nebel tTournament: UNLV | Round: 1 | Opponent: Pine View EL | Judge: Parth Misra Interpretation – the aff may not defend that the appropriation of outer space by a certain set of private entities is unjust.Entities is a generic bare pluralNebel 20 ~Jake Nebel is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and executive director of Victory Briefs. He writes a lot of this stuff lol – duh.~ "Indefinite Singular Generics in Debate" Victory Briefs, 19 August 2020. no url AG AND This suggests that "a democracy" in the resolution is not existential. It applies to this topic – a~ entities is an existential bare plural bc it has no determiner b~ The sentence "The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust" does not imply "the appropriation of outer space by private and public entities is unjust"Violation – they spec ~~Standards1~ Limits – they can spec infinite different entities like spaceX, etc.. - that’s supercharged by the ability to spec combinations of types of entities. This takes out functional limits – it’s impossible for me to research every possible combination of entities, governments, and appropriation.2~ TVA solves – just read your aff as an advantage to a whole rez aff – we don’t stop them from reading new FWs, mechanisms or advantages. PICs aren’t aff offense – a~ it’s ridiculous to say that neg potential abuse justifies the aff being non-T b~ There’s only a small number of pics on this topic c~ PICs incentivize them to write better affs that can generate solvency deficits to PICsCI, DTD, No RVI, F, E | 2/5/22 |
janfeb --- satellites daTournament: Kansas City | Round: 4 | Opponent: Solebury LN | Judge: Miguel Molina Chavez Loss of sats leads to economic collapseGraff 18 (Garrett M., former editor of Politico Magazine, editor-in-chief of Washingtonian magazine in Washington, D.C., and instructor at Georgetown University in the Masters in Professional Studies Journalism and Public Relations program, WIRED contributing editor, "The New Arms Race Threatening to Explode in Space," WIRED, August 26, 2018, https://www.wired.com/story/new-arms-race-threatening-to-explode-in-space) | Recut MU AND . "We’re still learning the consequences of all these things in space." Economic crash leads to diversionary global nuclear war.Tønnesson 15 (Stein, research professor at Peace Research Institute Oslo, leader of East Asia Peace program at Uppsala University, "Deterrence, interdependence and Sino–US peace," International Area Studies Review, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2015, p. 297-311) AND each other, with a view to obliging Washington or Beijing to intervene. | 1/29/22 |
janfeb --- space elevators picTournament: UNLV | Round: 6 | Opponent: Havard Westlake AL | Judge: Gordon Krauss Text – we endorse the entirety of the 1ac except appropriation of outer space through Space Elevators being Unjust.Space Elevators constitute Appropriation – they impede orbits.Matignon 19 Louis de Gouyon Matignon 3-3-2019 "LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE SPACE ELEVATOR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM" https://www.spacelegalissues.com/space-law-legal-aspects-of-the-space-elevator-transportation-system/ ~PhD in space law (co-supervised by both Philippe Delebecque, from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, and Christopher D. Johnson, from Georgetown University || regularly write articles on the website Space Legal Issues so as to popularise space law and public international law~Elmer AND could also descend the tether to return cargo to the surface from orbit. Private Companies are pursuing Space Elevators.Alfano 15 Andrea Alfano 8-18-2015 "All Of These Companies Are Working On A Space Elevator" https://www.techtimes.com/articles/77612/20150818/companies-working-space-elevator.htm (Writer at the Tech Times)Elmer AND LiftPort's plans, but stuck to the Earth instead of to the moon. Yes Space Elevators – NASA confirms.Snowden 18 Scott Snowden 10-2-2018 "A colossal elevator to space could be going up sooner than you ever imagined" https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/colossal-elevator-space-could-be-going-sooner-you-ever-imagined-ncna915421 (Scott has written about science and technology for 20 years for publications around the world. He covers environmental technology for Forbes.)Elmer AND into the heavens. It could open up space to the average person." Regardless of completion, Elevators spur investment in NanotechnologyLiam O’Brien 16. University of Wollongong. 07/2016. "Nanotechnology in Space." Young Scientists Journal; Canterbury, no. 19, p. 22. AND enormous amount can be done. There is still plenty more to achieve. Nanotech solves every existential threatMiller 17, Gina Miller, She has written articles and provided interviews on the subject of nanotechnology and created digital artwork, videos and animations to illustrate future applications. Her work has been featured in various media including the History Channel, Japanese television, international documentaries, Wired, PC Magazine, Fast Company, and various books such as "Nanofuture" by J. Storrs Hall, the inventor of the "utility fog" concept. Miller has collaborated with other nanotechnology pioneers such as Robert A. Freitas Jr., author of "Nanomedicine," and is a frequent collaborator of the Foresight Institute co-founded by K. Eric Drexler the "founding father of nanotechnology".. 2-26-2017, accessed on 1-28-2021, Nanotechnology Industries, "Nanotechnology, the real science of miracles, the end of disease, aging, poverty and pollution - Nanotechnology Industries", http://nanoindustries.com/nanotechnology'science'of'miracles/ Adam AND no chemical by product, no emission, hazardous waste and no pollution. | 2/6/22 |
janfeb --- space exploration daTournament: Kansas City | Round: 4 | Opponent: Solebury LN | Judge: Miguel Molina Chavez Private space appropriation is uniquely key to ensuring ongoing innovation towards space exploration and colonization.Cheng 20 ~Dean Cheng, 09-16-2020, "Outer Space and Private Property," Heritage Foundation, https://www.heritage.org/space-policy/commentary/outer-space-and-private-property~~//DDPT AND are not sure that they will be able to profit from their investments. The private sector is the key internal link to space exploration and colonization.Sharma 9/7 ~Maanas Sharma, 9-7-2021, "The Space Review: The privatized frontier: the ethical implications and role of private companies in space exploration," The Space Review, https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4238/1~~//DDPT AND more difficult, innovative projects which have transformative benefits for life on Earth. Space exploration solves extinction and endless resource wars.Collins 10 ~Patrick Collins, professor of economics at Azabu University in Japan, and a Collaborating Researcher with the Institute for Space and Astronautical Science, as well as adviser to a number of companies, Adriano V. Autino is President of the Space Renaissance International; Manager, CEO/CTO, Systems Engineering Consultant / Trainer at Andromeda Systems Engineering LLC; and Supplier of methodological tools and consultancy at Intermarine S.p.A, Acta Astronautica, Volume 66, Issues 11–12, June–July 2010, "What the growth of a space tourism industry could contribute to employment, economic growth, environmental protection, education, culture and world peace", Pages 1553–1562~ AND to be achievable only through the development of a vigorous space tourism industry. | 1/29/22 |
janfeb --- space exploration da v2Tournament: Harvard | Round: 1 | Opponent: George Washington MP | Judge: Amelia Ritenour Private sector innovation in the commercial space industry is high now.Smith 18 ~Matthew Smith, 6-11-2018, "Commercialized Space and You," Science in the News, https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/commercialized-space-and-you/~~//DDPT AND of 2018, the commercialized space industry shows no sign of slowing down. Private space appropriation is uniquely key to ensuring ongoing innovation towards space exploration and colonization.Cheng 20 ~Dean Cheng, 09-16-2020, "Outer Space and Private Property," Heritage Foundation, https://www.heritage.org/space-policy/commentary/outer-space-and-private-property~~//DDPT AND are not sure that they will be able to profit from their investments. Space exploration solves extinction and endless resource wars.Collins 10 ~Patrick Collins, professor of economics at Azabu University in Japan, and a Collaborating Researcher with the Institute for Space and Astronautical Science, as well as adviser to a number of companies, Adriano V. Autino is President of the Space Renaissance International; Manager, CEO/CTO, Systems Engineering Consultant / Trainer at Andromeda Systems Engineering LLC; and Supplier of methodological tools and consultancy at Intermarine S.p.A, Acta Astronautica, Volume 66, Issues 11–12, June–July 2010, "What the growth of a space tourism industry could contribute to employment, economic growth, environmental protection, education, culture and world peace", Pages 1553–1562~ AND to be achievable only through the development of a vigorous space tourism industry. | 2/18/22 |
janfeb --- t frameworkTournament: Harvard | Round: 1 | Opponent: George Washington MP | Judge: Amelia Ritenour Interpretation: Topical affirmatives may only garner offense from the hypothetical implementation by governments that The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjustResolved requires policy actionLouisiana State Legislature (https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/Glossary.aspx) Ngong AND Senate Rules 10.9, 13.5 and 15.1) AppropriationTIMOTHY JUSTIN TRAPP, JD Candidate @ UIUC Law, ’13, TAKING UP SPACE BY ANY OTHER MEANS: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE NONAPPROPRIATION ARTICLE OF THE OUTER SPACE TREATY UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW ~Vol. 2013 No. 4~ AND the Bogotá Declaration were trying to accomplish, albeit through different means.219 Vote neg for predictable limits—post-facto topic adjustment structurally favors the aff by manipulating the balance of prep which is anchored around the resolution as a stasis point. Not debating the topic allows someone to specialize in one area of the library for 4 years giving them a huge edge over people who switch research focus ever 2 months, which means their arguments are presumptively false because they haven’t been subject to well-researched scrutiny2 impacts:First is fairness—debate is fundamentally a game which requires both sides to have a relatively equal shot at winning and is necessary for any benefit to the activity. That outweighs:A~ decision-making: every argument concedes to the validity of fairness i.e. that the judge will make a fair decision based on the arguments presented. This means if they win fairness bad vote neg on presumption because you have no obligation to fairly evaluate their arguments.B~ probability: voting aff can’t solve any of their impacts but it can solve ours. All the ballot does is tell tab who won which can’t stop any violence but can resolve the fairness imbalance in this particular debate.Second—small schools disad: under-resourced are most adversely effected by a massive, unpredictable caselist which worsens structural disparitiesTVA – their affDisads to the TVA prove there’s negative ground and that it’s a contestable stasis point, and if their critique is incompatible with the topic reading it on the neg solves and is better because it promotes switch-side debateWinning their aff doesn’t answer T because only through the process of clash can they refine their defense of it—they need an explanation of why we switch sides and why there’s a winner and loser under their modelReject the team—T is question of models of debate and the damage to our strategy was already doneCompeting interps—they have to proactively to justify their model and reasonability links to our offenseNo rvis or impact turns—it’s their burden to prove their topical. Beating back T doesn’t prove their advocacy is good | 2/18/22 |
janfeb --- techno orientalism kTournament: UNLV | Round: 1 | Opponent: Pine View EL | Judge: Parth Misra We’ll win that the case straight-turns itself and has no impact. Conceptualize our offense thru the following frame, which will demonstrate that we are the only team with an external impact.The aff persists in a Sinophobic techno-Orientalist imaginary.Siu and Chun 20 ~(Lok, is a cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley; Claire, is a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Ethnic Studies) "Yellow Peril and Techno-orientalism in the Time of Covid-19: Racialized Contagion, Scientific Espionage, and Techno-Economic Warfare," October 2020, pg. 425-427~ julian AND "Chinese as contagion" and its connection to anti-Asian aggression. This falsifies their surveillance and hegemony impacts.Nair 18, founder and CEO of the Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT), an independent think tank based in Hong Kong. (Chandran, 12/21/2018, "Why Asia Should Be Worried By America’s Bullying of China," The Diplomat, https://thediplomat.com/2018/12/why-asia-should-be-worried-by-americas-bullying-of-china/ Date Accessed: 3/19/2021) AND the same thing. They may not like the answer they get back. The alternative is assemblage thinking.Acuto and Curtis 14 – Michele Acuto is Senior Lecturer in Global Networks and Diplomacy in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) at University College London, and Fellow in the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at the University of Oxford, Simon Curtis is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of East Anglia, 2014 (Reassembling International Theory: Assemblage Thinking and International Relations, ed. Michele Acuto and Simon Curtis, pgs. 6-15, Accessed via USC Libraries) AND feeds human hubris and our earth-destroying fantasies of conquest and consumption’. | 2/5/22 |
janfeb --- xi lashout daTournament: UNLV | Round: 1 | Opponent: Pine View EL | Judge: Parth Misra Xi’s regime is stable now, but its success depends on strong growth and private sector development.Mitter and Johnson 21 ~Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, Rana Mitter is a professor of the history and politics of modern China at Oxford. Elsbeth Johnson, formerly the strategy director for Prudential PLC’s Asian business, is a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the founder of SystemShift, a consulting firm. May-June 2021, "What the West Gets Wrong About China," Harvard Business Review, https://hbr.org/2021/05/what-the-west-gets-wrong-about-china accessed 12/14/21~ Adam AND University thanks to social mobility and the party’s significant investment in scientific research. Xi has committed to the commercial space industry as the linchpin of China’s rise – the plan is seen as a complete 180Patel 21 ~Neel V. Patel, Neel is a space reporter for MIT Technology Review. 1-21-2021, "China’s surging private space industry is out to challenge the US," MIT Technology Review, https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/21/1016513/china-private-commercial-space-industry-dominance/ accessed 12/14/21~ Adam AND for the commercial space sector as it tries to expand," he says. Shifts in regime perception threatens CCP’s legitimacy from nationalist hardlinersWeiss 19 Jessica Weiss 1-29-2019 "Authoritarian Audiences, Rhetoric, and Propaganda in International Crises: Evidence from China" http://www.jessicachenweiss.com/uploads/3/0/6/3/30636001/19-01-24-elite-statements-isq-ca.pdf (Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University)Elmer AND to it more directly than even the U.S. government."11 Xi will launch diversionary war to domestic backlash – escalates in multiple hotspotsNorris 17, William J. Geostrategic Implications of China’s Twin Economic Challenges. CFR Discussion Paper, 2017. (Associate professor of Chinese foreign and security policy at Texas AandM University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service)Elmer AND resource is directed shifts away from industrial and export production toward domestic consumption. ====US–China war goes nuclear – crisis mis-management ensures conventional escalation - extinction==== AND during a military crisis, but it would make one far less likely. | 2/5/22 |
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