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-====Nuclear power k2 space col- only feasible source of generating thrust==== |
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-**Zolfagharifard 16 , **Ellie, writer for the daily mail(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3499441/Nasa-wants-use-nuclear-rockets-Mars-Space-agency-claims-technique-effective-way-reaching-red-planet.html) |
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-Nuclear thermal propulsion is 'the most effective' way of sending humans to Mars. That's |
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-'Advanced nuclear propulsion systems could have extremely high performance and unique capabilities.' |
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-====Nuclear's key – cuts down travel times and ensures the missions succeeds==== |
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-Richard **Gray** **15** ~~(Richard Gray For Mailonline, ) Nasa is developing new NUCLEAR rockets to send astronauts into space, Mail Online 2-3-2015~~ AT |
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-Nuclear thermal rockets weigh around half as much as chemical rockets for the same amount |
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-====Every second we don't colonize ends 10^^29^^ future human lives – outweighs literally any other impact==== |
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-**Bostrom3**— Nick Bostrom, Nick Bostrom is a Swedish philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, superintelligence risks, the reversal test, and consequentialism. ("Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development", Utilitas, 2003, Available Online at http://www.nickbostrom.com/astronomical/waste.html, accessed 7-15-2016, JSO) |
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-As I write these words, suns are illuminating and heating empty rooms, unused |
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-lost for every second of postponement of colonization of our supercluster.~~6~~ |
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-====The impact is extinction==== |
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-Fox News 10 (Fox News, "Abandon Earth or Face Extinction, Stephen Hawking Warns – Again", http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/08/09/abandon-earth-face-extinction-warns-stephen-hawking/, 6/9/10) SV |
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-It's time to abandon Earth, warned the world's most famous theoretical physicist. In |
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-species should be safe, as we spread into space," he said. |
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-====Intermittency and launch costs means no solar==== |
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-**Hsu 09 **( Jeremy, writer for astrobiology magazine http://www.space.com/7617-controversy-flares-space-based-solar-power-plans.html) |
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-Hoffert is wary of Solaren's latest step forward and the company's promise of delivering 200 |
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-e-mail to colleagues. "But scientists should not do this." |