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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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+AND |
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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 1029 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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+AND |
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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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+AND |
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+NASA, knowing full well that it symbolizes what I believe in too. |
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+Colonization solves warming- mutual technology development—warming inevitable without space colonization this turns UCS |
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+Siegfried 03 W. H. Siegfried" 2003 The Boeing Company, Integrated Defense Systems “Space Colonization—Benefits for the World” http://www.aiaa.org/participate/uploads/acf628b.pdf |
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+The world population has finally recognized that we are polluting our nest. We are |
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+This would reduce travel times and minimize exposure to potentially debilitating space environments. |