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+====Space exploration now is only possible with nuclear power – multiple warrants==== |
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+**Zaitsev 07** |
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+(Zaitsev, Yury. "Nuclear Power In Space." SpaceDaily 15 Aug 2007. http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Nuclear_Power_In_Space_999.html) |
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+Solar energy supplies most of power in spacecraft nowadays. Although the efficiency of solar |
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+its capacity, a nuclear plant is always smaller than a solar one. |
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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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+====Multiple extinction threats within the next century – try or die to get off the rock==== |
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+**Smith and Davies 2012** (Cameron M., Anthropology Professor, Evan T., Writer; "A Choice of Catastrophes: Common Arguments for Space Colonization", Emigrating Beyond Earth: Human Adaptation and Space Colonization, http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-1165-9_4) |
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+These limits are not entirely mythological. Even if humanity were to end war, |
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+after considering another possible scenario: not extinction, but civilization collapse. |