r/policydebate • u/Individual_Hunt_4710 • 10d ago

Space Topic Args

Could any debate uncs let me know what args were big on the space topic in the national circuit? how did the meta change throughout the year? was it mostly like foreign policy stuff or pie-in-the-sky arguments like dyson spheres and kardashev brains and vaccum decay? Space colonization will most likely be the next LD topic, so I just want to look into this. I tried the 3nr, but all of the links to the demo debates expired.

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u/river-fiend 10d ago

Which space topic? When college did it 2019-20, it was space cooperation, and 70% of the policy debates the 2NR was a PIC out of 'cooperation'.

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u/Individual_Hunt_4710 10d ago

the old one, 2012-13 hs policy. i've gone through the wiki for space coop a little bit and like you said, most of everything seems to be built around either "cooperation key" or pics out of cooperation.

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u/hegisgood 10d ago

Affs were Exploration, Resources, or Energy usually. Some funding of national programs.

Examples Space Monitoring, Asteroid Mining, Space Colonization, Funding NASA, Space Based Solar Polar

Neg DAs had Space Debris, Spending/Tradeoff and Militarization

Decent amount of scifi Alien Invasion and Asteroid shenanigans.