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| ASU | 1 | Opponent: Brophy TJ | Judge: Wheeler, Scott 1AC - Asteroid Mining |
| Golden Desert | 1 | Opponent: Marlborough LK | Judge: Navare, Nikhil 1AC - Global Commons |
| Golden Desert | 4 | Opponent: James Logan ZW | Judge: Alvarez, Diana 1AC - Anthro |
| Harvard Westlake | 2 | Opponent: Presentation AB | Judge: Michael, Joshua 1AC - Whole Rez Environment Space Debris Neoliberalism |
| Harvard Westlake | 4 | Opponent: Monta Vista RD | Judge: Villanueva, Leah 1AC - Ban Mining |
| Harvard Westlake | 6 | Opponent: Marlborough MS | Judge: Strong, Margaret 1AC - Global Commons |
| Harvard Westlake | Doubles | Opponent: Orange Lutheran AZ | Judge: Vanessa Nguyen, Tim Alderete, Chris Theis 1AC - Whole Rez Cosmic Quarry Colonialism |
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0 -- Contact InfoTournament: Any | Round: 1 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any | 1/7/22 |
JanFeb -- CP -- Ban Animal TestingTournament: Golden Desert | Round: 4 | Opponent: James Logan ZW | Judge: Alvarez, Diana Private entities should establish internally binding policies that mandate:Banning animal testing. | 2/6/22 |
JanFeb -- CP -- Ban Space WeaponizationTournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 4 | Opponent: Monta Vista RD | Judge: Villanueva, Leah CPCP: The weaponization of outer space should be banned. | 1/16/22 |
JanFeb -- CP -- Debris, Space Col, Space TourismTournament: Golden Desert | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough LK | Judge: Navare, Nikhil Private entities should establish internally binding policies that mandate:Removing debris pieces from orbit, prioritizing the most volatile and largest debris pieces in the most congested orbitsCollaborating on techniques to track and display the location of objects in real time and AI to automate debris-avoidance maneuversBanning private space colonization, andBanning private space tourism.That solves satellites, miscalc, Kessler, and debris collisionsNature 8/11 ~(Nature Editorial Board, peer-reviewed, comprises experimental scientists and data-standards experts from across different fields of science) "The world must cooperate to avoid a catastrophic space collision," Nature, 8/11/2021~ JL AND and capable of — managing the flow of space traffic is long overdue. Removing the largest debris solves and is possible for private companiesKhlystov 18 Nikolai Khlystov Lead, Space, and lead, Global Future Council on Space, World Economic Forum. 3 April, 2018 "We have a space debris problem Here’s how to solve it" We have a space debris problem. Here’s how to solve it | World Economic Forum (weforum.org) Accessed 12-19, photos omitted gord0 AND the oceans, and we need to protect this resource for future generations. Their only internal link to debris that they read in the Munoz-Patchen card is space tourism, which the CP bans.The CP also bans private space col which is their only internal link to their second advantage. | 2/5/22 |
JanFeb -- CP -- SSATournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough MS | Judge: Strong, Margaret States should:increase funding for space-situational awareness technology,ban space colonization by private entities, andwarn all states about known impending collisions on their space assets.Plank 1 solves collisions, assures allies, and avoids sharing key secretsHitchens and Johnson-Freese 16 (Theresa Hitchens and Joan Johnson-Freese. Johnson-Freese is a professor of national security affairs at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Theresa Hitchens is a Senior Research Scholar at the University of Maryland’s Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM), and former Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). "Toward a New National Security Space Strategy Time for a Strategic Rebalancing," Atlantic Council Strategy Papers, No. 5, 2016, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/images/publications/AC'StrategyPapers'No5'Space'WEB1.pdf) AND lead on developing a workable space-traffic management regime underpinned by SSA. Plank 2 solves their second advantage because private space col is their only internal linkPlank 3 solves miscalcGreen 14 (Brian D. Green, "Space Situational Awareness Data Sharing: Safety Tool or Security Threat?" A thesis submitted to McGill University in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of MASTER OF LAWS, December 2014, http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/webclient/StreamGate?folder'id=0anddvs=1569190779049~~368) AND show good faith in a way that could keep international tensions from escalating. | 1/16/22 |
JanFeb -- CP -- Space FundTournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 4 | Opponent: Monta Vista RD | Judge: Villanueva, Leah CPCP text: space faring nations should establish an international governing body that: Regulates commercial operations in outer space and CP solves - Creating a legal regime ensures everyone benefits from mining creates sustainable mining while avoiding conflict and promoting competitionMorgan 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. | 1/16/22 |
JanFeb -- CP -- US PICTournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Orange Lutheran AZ | Judge: Vanessa Nguyen, Tim Alderete, Chris Theis CPCP: The appropriation of outer space by private entities except for those in the United States is unjust. | 1/16/22 |
JanFeb -- CP -- US PIC vs MiningTournament: ASU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Brophy TJ | Judge: Wheeler, Scott CPCP: The appropriation of outer space through asteroid mining by private entities should be banned by all countries except the United States of America.Rebound’s accelerating, driven by U.S. business output, BUT fragile due to corporate debt—-stable policy is keyCaroline Miranda 21, Consultant for the International Finance Corporation at the World Bank Group, Fernando Blanco, Principal Economist for Europe and Central Asia of the IFC, and Tatiana Nenova, IFC ECA/LAC Regional Economics Manager, Country Economics (CELCE), "An Uneven Global Economic Recovery in 2021 Promises to Invert a Longstanding Principle of Success and Failure", World Bank Blogs, 5/7/2021, https://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/uneven-global-economic-recovery-2021-promises-invert-longstanding-principle-success AND often leads to the excessive destruction of capital, even under normal circumstances. It’s perception-based—-the possibility that precedent could be applied crumbles confidence and spirals into global declineMohamed A. El-Erian 17, Chief Economic Adviser at Allianz, Chairman of US President Barack Obama’s Global Development Council, Former CEO of the Harvard Management Company and Deputy Director at the International Monetary Fund, "America’s Confidence Economy", Project Syndicate, 3/20/2017, https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-market-optimism-economic-growth-by-mohamed-a—el-erian-2017-03 AND especially if these economic challenges prompt the Trump administration to implement protectionist measures. Unpredictable shifts ruin biz con AND overall growthSarah Chaney Cambon 21, Reporter on The Wall Street Journal's Economics Team, BA in Business Journalism from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, "Capital-Spending Surge Further Lifts Economic Recovery", Wall Street Journal, 6/27/2021, https://www.wsj.com/articles/capital-spending-surge-further-lifts-economic-recovery-11624798800 AND to follow and will be able to plan around that," he said. Decline cascades—-nuclear warDr. Mathew Maavak 21, PhD in Risk Foresight from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, External Researcher (PLATBIDAFO) at the Kazimieras Simonavicius University, Expert and Regular Commentator on Risk-Related Geostrategic Issues at the Russian International Affairs Council, "Horizon 2030: Will Emerging Risks Unravel Our Global Systems?", Salus Journal – The Australian Journal for Law Enforcement, Security and Intelligence Professionals, Volume 9, Number 1, p. 2-8 AND in the Middle East. Soleimani was simply a cog who got replaced. | 1/7/22 |
JanFeb -- CP -- US PIC vs Whole RezTournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Presentation AB | Judge: Michael, Joshua CPCP: The appropriation of outer space by private entities—except for non-space tourism activities and non-space colonization activities by US private entities—is unjust.That competes because we’ve provided a better ethical statement than the aff – disproving the aff’s desirability.Solves all their advantages – their only internal is space tourismUS wins space race now due to private competition – its key to space dominance and militarization is good – the plan nukes the US’s silver bullet against Chinese aggressionWeichert 21 – former Congressional staff member who holds a Master of Arts in Statecraft and National Security Affairs from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. He is the founder of The Weichert Report: An Online Journal of Geopolitics ~Brandon, "The Future of Space Exploration Depends on the Private Sector," 7/5/2021, https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/the-future-of-space-exploration-depends-on-the-private-sector/~~#slide-1~~ AND America’s dynamic start-ups win that race, not China’s state capitalism. And, space dominance key to global peace – nuclear and conventional deterrence is collapsing, which will provoke civilization-ending revisionist aggression from Russia and ChinaDr. Robert Zubrin 19, Masters in Aeronautics and Astronautics and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Washington, President of Pioneer Energy, Founder and President of the Mars Society, Senior Fellow with the Center for Security Policy, The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility, p. Google Books AND of the other, we would be the overwhelming loser by the exchange. Space dominance solves hegemony – deterrence strategies, even rudimentary ones, are perceived as weakness and causes aggressionWeichert 17 (Brandon J. Weichert. Brandon J. Weichert is a former Congressional staff member who holds a Master of Arts in Statecraft and National Security Affairs from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. He is the founder of The Weichert Report: An Online Journal of Geopolitics, "The High Ground: The Case for U.S. Space Dominance," Orbis, Vol 61, Issue 2, 2017, pp 227 – 237, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030438717300108) AND example, the overwhelming American presence in space presumably would dissuade potential attackers. US hegemony prevents great-power conflicts that escalates to nuclear warBrands and Edel 19 (Hal Brands and Charles Edel. Hal Brands is the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs in the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Charles Edel is a senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and previously served on the U.S. Secretary of State’s policy planning staff, "Rediscovering Tragedy. In The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order; Chapter 6: The Darkening Horizon," Yale University Press, pp 128-131 http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvbnm3r9.11) AND . It tells us there may be still-greater traumas to come. | 1/15/22 |
JanFeb -- DA -- AppropriationsTournament: Golden Desert | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough LK | Judge: Navare, Nikhil Congress is inching towards a funding deal—but, it’s a deliberate dance to keep them focused on funding while avoiding political complicationsRomm 2/2 ~Tony Romm is the congressional economic policy reporter at The Washington Post, tracking infrastructure reform, government spending and the financial impacts of federal decision-making nationwide, "Democrats, GOP inch ahead toward potential deal to fund government, avert shutdown", 2/2/22, https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/02/02/democrats-republicans-spending-shutdown-covid/~~ AND Congress focused on solidifying government funding levels without adding any other political complications. Space policy causes immense partisan backlash that wrecks the delicate balanceDreier 16 ~Casey Dreier, Chief Advocate and Senior Space Policy Adviser for The Planetary Society, April 13, 2016. "Does Presidential Intervention Undermine Consensus for NASA?" https://www.planetary.org/blogs/casey-dreier/2016/0413-does-a-strong-president-help-or-hurt-consensus-on-NASA.html~~ AND Congress that induce the types of partisanship we so dearly need to avoid. Bipart’s key—otherwise, yearlong CR ruins defense industrial base and military modernizationCR = continuing resolution AND of those firms, Anduril Industries, wrote in an essay this week. Impact’s cyber and deterrence crashManchester ’19, ~Josh, Founder of Champion Hill and General Partner at Foundation Capital, Venture-backed Startups Will Build the Defense Technology the Free World Needs Right Now, https://medium.com/@joshmanchester/venture-backed-startups-will-build-the-defense-technology-the-free-world-needs-right-now-d2cefa2b2196~~ AND of government by consent, our firm would like to talk to you. | 2/5/22 |
JanFeb -- DA -- Biz ConTournament: ASU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Brophy TJ | Judge: Wheeler, Scott DARussia’s international ambitions are low now due to space sector failures.AFP 5/28/19 (Agence France-Presse - international news agency headquartered in Paris, "Moscow, we have a problem: theft plagues Russia’s space sector," https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3012088/moscow-we-have-problem-theft-plagues-russias-space) AND power, especially in the context of increased tensions with the United States. Space cooperation with the U.S. boosts Russia’s diplomatic leverage and international prestigeJuul 19 (Peter - senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress, "Trump’s Space Force Gets the Final Frontier All Wrong," 3/20/19, https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/20/trumps-space-force-gets-the-final-frontier-all-wrong/) AND United States to give Russia or China this sort of standing by association. Increased international prestige lays the foundation for Russian territorial expansion and foreign policy aggressionGurganus 19 (Julia - nonresident scholar with the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Eugene Rumer - senior fellow and the director of Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program, "Russia’s Global Ambitions in Perspective," 2/20/19, https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/02/20/russia-s-global-ambitions-in-perspective-pub-78067) AND tools has long been a feature of Russian domestic politics and foreign policy. Russian territorial expansion causes nuclear war with the U.S. and NATOO’Hanlon 19 (Michael – PhD from Princeton in Public and International Affairs and currently a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, "The Senkaku Paradox: Risking Great Power War Over Small Stakes," p. 34-37, 4/30/19, Dartmouth Libraries) AND all bets are off as to where and how the conflict would end. | 1/7/22 |
JanFeb -- DA -- InnovationTournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 4 | Opponent: Monta Vista RD | Judge: Villanueva, Leah DAStrong commercial space catalyzes tech innovation – progress at the margins and spinoff tech change global information networksJoshua Hampson 2017, Security Studies Fellow at the Niskanen Center, 1-25-2017, "The Future of Space Commercialization", Niskanen Center, https://republicans-science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/TheFutureofSpaceCommercializationFinal.pdf AND to global networks, and new opportunities could lead to wider economic growth. The plan crushes private sector RandD by diverting investment and creating government patents that lower the perceived return from space innovationErich Mattei 4, Graduate Student in Economics at the University of Georgia, BA in Business Administration and Economics at Loyola University New Orleans, Senior Professional Sales Representative, Regional Field Trainer at Alcon, "The Mars Con", Mises Daily Articles, 2-6, https://mises.org/library/mars-con AND and analogous research and development, and therefore faces little to no competition. Asteroid mining is the main way companies are looking to profit off of space – that’s key to innovationTech innovation solves any future existential threatsDylan Matthews 18. Co-founder of Vox, citing Nick Beckstead @ Rutgers University. 10-26-2018. "How to help people millions of years from now." Vox. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/26/18023366/far-future-effective-altruism-existential-risk-doing-good AND far future, then effective altruism just becomes plain ol’ do-goodery.* | 1/16/22 |
JanFeb -- DA -- MiningTournament: Golden Desert | Round: 4 | Opponent: James Logan ZW | Judge: Alvarez, Diana 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, PhD student in space resources at the Colorado School of Mines, writes in 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. | 2/6/22 |
JanFeb -- DA -- US HegTournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough MS | Judge: Strong, Margaret US wins space race now due to private competition – its key to space dominance and militarization is good – the plan nukes the US’s silver bullet against Chinese aggressionWeichert 21 – former Congressional staff member who holds a Master of Arts in Statecraft and National Security Affairs from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. He is the founder of The Weichert Report: An Online Journal of Geopolitics ~Brandon, "The Future of Space Exploration Depends on the Private Sector," 7/5/2021, https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/the-future-of-space-exploration-depends-on-the-private-sector/~~#slide-1~~ AND America’s dynamic start-ups win that race, not China’s state capitalism. And, space dominance key to global peace – nuclear and conventional deterrence is collapsing, which will provoke civilization-ending revisionist aggression from Russia and ChinaDr. Robert Zubrin 19, Masters in Aeronautics and Astronautics and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Washington, President of Pioneer Energy, Founder and President of the Mars Society, Senior Fellow with the Center for Security Policy, The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility, p. Google Books AND of the other, we would be the overwhelming loser by the exchange. Space dominance solves hegemony – deterrence strategies, even rudimentary ones, are perceived as weakness and causes aggressionWeichert 17 (Brandon J. Weichert. Brandon J. Weichert is a former Congressional staff member who holds a Master of Arts in Statecraft and National Security Affairs from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. He is the founder of The Weichert Report: An Online Journal of Geopolitics, "The High Ground: The Case for U.S. Space Dominance," Orbis, Vol 61, Issue 2, 2017, pp 227 – 237, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030438717300108) AND example, the overwhelming American presence in space presumably would dissuade potential attackers. US hegemony prevents great-power conflicts that escalates to nuclear warBrands and Edel 19 (Hal Brands and Charles Edel. Hal Brands is the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs in the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Charles Edel is a senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and previously served on the U.S. Secretary of State’s policy planning staff, "Rediscovering Tragedy. In The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order; Chapter 6: The Darkening Horizon," Yale University Press, pp 128-131 http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvbnm3r9.11) AND . It tells us there may be still-greater traumas to come. | 1/16/22 |
JanFeb -- T -- ExtraTournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough MS | Judge: Strong, Margaret Interp: Interp – the aff must only defend that the private appropriation of outer space is unjustViolation – they defend "public governance" of outer space through a "global commons" as per their Goehring cardVote neg for limits and ground: extra-topicality allows them to tack on infinite planks to artificially improve aff solvency and spike out of DA impacts—e.g., impacts to the economy. Also key to education and advocacy – they never have to test their aff against well-researched objections which o/w since it's the only portable skill in debate.Drop the debater because the round has been irreparably skewed.Use competing interps because reasonability is arbitrary and forces judge intervention.No RVIs – they’re illogical bc they shouldn’t win for being topicalAt best for the aff, there’s no risk of spillover from whole rez to a global commons because states still have economic and political/military incentives to exploit space individually | 1/16/22 |
JanFeb -- T -- Extra v2Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough LK | Judge: Navare, Nikhil Interp: Interp – the aff must only defend that the private appropriation of outer space is unjustViolation – they defend public governance of outer space through a "global commons" as per their Vollmer cardVote neg for limits and ground: extra-topicality allows them to tack on infinite planks to artificially improve aff solvency and spike out of DA impacts—e.g., impacts to the economy. Also key to education and advocacy – they never have to test their aff against well-researched objections which o/w since it's the only portable skill in debate.Drop the debater because the round has been irreparably skewed.Use competing interps because reasonability is arbitrary and forces judge intervention.No RVIs – they’re illogical bc they shouldn’t win for being topicalAt best for the aff, there’s no risk of spillover from whole rez to a global commons because states still have economic and political/military incentives to exploit space individually | 2/5/22 |
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