DEBATING SPACE: [The] National Forensic League — the national honor society that promotes debating skills for high school students ... has announced their policy topic for the 2011 – 2012 debating season.

Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its exploration and/or development of space beyond the Earth’s mesosphere.

The comments are great, but the punch line, I think, is this: “The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there’s no good reason to go into space–each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.”