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Posted in 2011-2012, Advantages, Affirmatives, Counterplans, CX, Disadvantages, Kritiks on April 4, 2011

List of Space Exploration Arguments

This list comes from PlanetDebate.com’s blog, but we’ve added quite a few arguments of our own to the list for arguments for the debate topic on space exploration: Advantages (1) Environmental collapse/overpopulation (2) Overview Effect (3) Economy/Competitiveness (4) Space mil ... Continue Reading

Posted in Advantages, Affirmatives, CX, Uncategorized on April 4, 2011

5 Space Travel Ideas (That Might Actually Work)

This article will provide a bunch of squirrely affirmatives (that Dynasty Debate will be exploring) for the space exploration debate topic. Here’s run down if you don’t want to visit the site: 5. The Gigantic Space Cannon 4. The Atom-Bomb Powered Spacecraft 3. Buzz Aldrin’ ... Continue Reading

Posted in Advantages, Affirmatives, CX on April 4, 2011

Top 10 Reasons for Space Exploration

Slightly humorous, via this website: Top Ten Reasons for Going Into Space Reason Number 10 Colonization – in another twenty years it is estimated the population of the earth will reach over 8 billion. We could use a place to live.   Reason Number 9 Place a spy satellite ov ... Continue Reading

Posted in Affirmatives, Counterplans, CX on April 4, 2011

NASA X-Prize: Affirmative Funding or CP?

So during the alternative energy debate topic, the “X-Prize” – NASA’s unique ‘competition-based’ strategy for citizens to develop the best technology – was used as the “incentive” part of the resolution. For the space exploration debate ... Continue Reading

Posted in Counterplans, CX on April 4, 2011

Heavy Lift vs. Commercial Rocket PIC

via Zane Ryan @ AbnormalMeans: All right, what about a CP text of “do the plan but instead imple­ment it using heavy-lift rockets”? The pol­i­tics DA links are out there: Wednesday’s dis­pute over rocket pri­or­i­ties revived a bat­tle that Con­gress waged last year. ... Continue Reading

Posted in CX, Topicality on April 4, 2011

T-Development (Space)

Many times one may hear the words “development” and “growth” used synonymously. There’s a big difference. Growth is when there is something already pre-established that, by some standard(s), gets bigger or is intensified. Example: more funding or researchers ... Continue Reading

Posted in 2011-2012, CX, Kritiks on March 28, 2011

Heidegger & Space Exploration

The Heidegger Kritik is bound to “make a comeback,” as some debaters have put it, during the 2011-2012 space exploration topic for CX debate. Heidegger is one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. He is specifically employed in debate for his views on ethics ... Continue Reading

Posted in CX on March 28, 2011

Blogs for Space Exploration

A thread on Cross-X.com has produced some interesting links for blogs on space topic issues. I’m sure there will be many more resources like these out there that we’ll all uncover throughout the next year, but just for starters, here we go: International Space Leadership, Roger ... Continue Reading

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