The Resolution

Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its exploration and/or development of space beyond the Earth’s mesosphere

Aff Cases: Development Colonization Cases

Extra-solar colonization Generational star ships Panspermia Von Neumann probes

Solar colonization Lunar colonization Martian colonization Orbital colonization

Aff Cases: Dev’t [cont’d] Resource Extraction Cases

Asteroid mining (NEAs) Lunar mining (He3) Lunar solar power Space solar power (PowerSats)

Aff Cases: Dev’t [cont’d] Military Cases

Doctrine Forces (Space Forces) Weapons systems/types

Missile Defense/SBI Space-Based Lasers (SBL) STEW/Rods from God

Aff Cases: Dev’t [cont’d] Space Access Cases

Constellation Railgun Reusable launch vehicle Small booster rockets Space elevator Space junk removal Transorbital railroad

Aff Cases: Exploration [cont’d]

Propulsion development Anti-matter Nuclear/Project Orion Solar sails

Aff Cases: Exploration Asteroid mapping/defense Deep space/origins research ISS (expand or new) NEA mission (robotic, crewed) Remote sensing Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)

Aff Cases: Cooperation

Joint missions with… China India South Korea

Aff Cases: Other (policy) Export controls/ITAR Private space—promote/remove

barriers Space Tourism

Aff Cases: Other (weird)

Astral projection Inner space/transcendental

meditation U.S. off the Planet (Churchill) Worm holes/time travel

Disadvantage Areas

Budget DAs Fiscal discipline Tradeoffs

Politics DAs Elections Presidential agenda

Disad Areas [cont’d]

Space-y DAs Diseases Launch accidents Overcrowding (GSO) Ozone Space junk Space regime credibility/Space law Space weaponization

Counterplan Areas

Domestic Agents NASA New agency Department of Defense Executive Congress

Multilateral Cooperation Private Actor/Prizes

Counterplan Areas [cont’d] International Agents (net benefits

can be written as disads) China EU Japan Russia Emerging space powers—Brazil, India, South Korea

Bilateral Cooperation—same list Advantage CPs

Kritik Ground The usual suspects [See: France,

philosophy; Germany, philosophy] Capitalism Objectivism

Anthropocentrism Escapism Technologism (Heidegger et al.) Space Colonialism Space Security Transhumanism Virilio/Speed