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+====Nuclear reactors key to space colonization and exploration – provides enough fuel to power colonies and ships==== |
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+**Clayton 15 **(Darnell Clayton, 12/24/15, "Mini Nuclear Reactors Could Power Space Colonies," Universe Today, http://www.universetoday.com/46817/mini-nuclear-reactors-could-power-space-colonies/~~#) |
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+Growing up on Star Trek, I was always told that space was the final |
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+seek out new homes on new worlds and spread ourselves throughout the universe. |
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+====Nuclear power is safe and required for colonization– accidents unlikely and have no impact – prefer my evidence on specificity, recency and author quals==== |
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+**Deason 12** (Wes Deason, Wes Deason is a graduate student in nuclear engineering at Oregon State University working on the safety analysis of vented fuel systems for gas-cooled fast breeder reactors. He is a former summer fellow for the Center for Space Nuclear Research and the current student liaison for the Aerospace Nuclear Science and Technology Division of ANS, 2-29-2012, "Space nuclear propulsion: Humanity’s route to the solar system," http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2012/02/29/space-nuclear-part-one/) |
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+Though humans have successfully traveled from the earth to the moon, our exploration of |
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+-studied nuclear space propulsion technologies: nuclear electric and nuclear thermal propulsion. |
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+====Every second we don’t colonize another planet ends 10^^29^^ future human lives – outweighs any other impact==== |
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+**Bostrom 3**— 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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+====Expansion into space would prevent global wars resulting in extinction ==== |
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+**Asimov ’03 ~~Isaac Asimov, author, former president of the American Humanist Association, and biochemist, Speech at Rutgers University, "Our Future in the Cosmos-Space," http:/lwww.wronkiewicz.net~~asimov.html~~** |
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+I have a feeling that if we really expanded into space with all our might |
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+NASA, knowing full well that it symbolizes what I believe in too. |