Recent content by blu3boy

Both sadly and augustly, debate is probably my strongest skill. Sadly because while I am passionate about it, I am more passionate about physics (something I find my skills are quite lackluster at compared to debate) I know it's the effort, but after physics class last year, no matter how...

Doubtful, and looking up articles in middle of the debate is against the rules. On top of that - most articles that are given to us as the default arguments cut out the negative parts. Example - One article talks about how port security is required, but the part that says that we don't have...

Yea, I actually implemented the argument of a smart road that charges electric cars while they drive; (Found a Stanford study on it so its reliable) this means there is a much greater incentive to buy electric cars. On top of that, said roads would be SOLAR POWERED! I just thought it was amazing

Update following some research - I think the intelligent highway argument is near perfect. Over the course of 8 years, spending 157 billion will save 3.1 trillion in GDP, 1 trillion in trade, and 3.5 million jobs.

The 300,000 is the number people typically bring up when discussing how much rail would need to be placed down if we were going to invest in the highspeed rail infrastructure plan. What I did with the port security last Saturday was say that investment would be made over the period of 10-20ish...

I'm sorry, I posted without reading that. Do you have projections for the ROI?

I looked up costs for that, and while it is a very interesting idea, it is estimated that it would cost $800,000 per mile, and at that price point it would cost 240 billion for about 300,000 miles of lines. Assuming the best possible conditions - the price point is actually 800,000 to 22...

Thank you! That smart road idea is definitely interesting. Something I couldn't find from a quick search (mind you it was literally a 2 minute search session) was the cost. People are quick to argue that the current economy can't handle the burden of such roads. Do you have an estimate of how...

There is that general topic, but they're fairly lenient with what you can argue. I've downloaded all the representable files (the ones that don't completely suck) The topics I can debate are as follows. For the affirmative side there is Human Powered Transport (self explanatory) Air...

Even then, I guess I just have a way with words, and I'm sure I could do the proper convincing of mega projects if needed. The highspeed rail is typically shot down with the argument "look how much it cost china for just 30k of track! We need 250k, and we could not afford this with the current...

Oh, and also, whether or not we can build it now isn't an issue. If it fits the criteria (even if it were to be decades from feasibility) I could still argue it. It IS debate, after all.

No, on the contrary, most people tend to argue that the United States shouldn't risk harming today's economy by investing too much into the future. I tend to choose which to argue based on what the opponents are arguing. If not a space elevator, do you have another physics based...

Space Elevators --> US Transportation Infrastructure Alright, I really wasn't sure where to post this question regarding space elevators. I'm on the debate team at my school, and I've found that I can't get motivated with the current topic of "transportation infrastructure." until I realized...

It is about that time in senior year where all my biggest decisions are about to be made. Yea, I'm filling out college applications. Here are my current MAIN choices in ranking of how badly I want to attend: EDIT: I'm majoring in Physics if that matters 1. University of Washington in Seattle...

This is sort of a plea for help. I feel as if I've depleted any kind of intelligence I had. Freshman and sophmore year, I had no dreams, and nothing to aspire to. Because of that, my GPA was complete crap. I think it was barely higher than 2.3ish. Junior year, I took physics, and my...