Resolved: The United States Federal Government should mine the moon for He3.

Contention 1: International Law and Hegenomy. "The treaty explicitly forbids any government from claiming a celestial resource such as the Moon or a planet, claiming that they are the common heritage of mankind." (http://en.wikipedia.org...)The Outer Space Treaty was passed to prevent any nation to increase any chance of war in space and has banned any nation from mining the moon as it would be taking their resources. Richard Folley, Proffessor in law, has show that when it comes to this that the US and even private companies should think twice before comencing such a mission as it will do nothing, but prevent an arms race to the moon which was the very thing that the OST sought to prevent. He also pointed out that it would cause legal trouble as well as financial trouble. (http://ddw11.wikispaces.com...) International Law is very important as the US conciders itself the world police dog as we go around and try to remove dictators that have committed crimes of humanity, but many nations are starting to question us as of late as we are constantly breaking international law ourselves wheater it be via a drone strike, our airstrikes in Syria, or even the NSA. With other nations beginning to doubt the US as the great police dog some are starting to turn to other nations. (http://www.economist.com...) Hegenomy would also be another key thing here as we can tie in that the world police dog is generally the responability of the great Global Hegemon, but with the US not fallowing international law and loosing support and throughout history many people see a great war occur when a hegemon falls and the nation that is poised to do so is China and we can see that with China having a majority of the Minerals in the world and the great economic leader one could see that the Chinese will be contesting the US in the near future.(Pages 89-90(http://books.google.com...) Contention 2: He-3 on moon Not worth it and economic alternatives exist.Frank Close, a Physist at Oxford, has show that take He-3 from the moon and using it for the safe fuel will not happen. Here is his results:"all of the nuclei in the fuel mingle together, which means that two deuterium nuclei can rapidly fuse to give a tritium nucleus and proton. The tritium can now fuse with the deuterium – again much faster than the deuterium can with helium-3 – to yield helium-4 and a neutron. So by bringing helium-3 from the Moon, all we will end up doing is create a deuterium– tritium fusion machine, which is the very thing the helium aficionados wanted to avoid!"(http://physicsworld.com...) Here he shows that it won't come out as anticipated and we will end up with a radioactive substance as the He-3 will attempt to get it's valence balance and will do so and it is seen by Close's findings. Mark Williams, MIT tech proffessor, has also calculated the same exact thing and that it would be harder to do this and he also found that in order to get the fussion process to occur that it would take exactly 6 times the sun's internal amount of heat to commence the process. (http://www.technologyreview.com...) Well Lannan, how about alternatives? Well you can see that we have actually been coming up with great alternatives like Lithum-6, BF3, and even the He-3 that was used for national security issues has long since been replaced. Before this turnover, 80% of all of the US's He-3 was being used for national security. (http://www.aaas.org...) The Congressional Reserch service has actually found that there are plenty of US reserves left and that we can use the He-3 extracted from natural gas, which is done so to increase combustion, for our He-3 needs. They have predicted that it will include a 5 million bottle increase of natural gas supplies thus making Pro's plan useless. (http://assets.opencrs.com...) Contention 3: Price TagOne thing that my opponent doesn't tell you is the pricetag. It currently costs us exactly $10,000 per pound to put something in Low Earth Orbit, that's not even close to the moon. We would also need a perminate base on the moon as well as mining supplies and equipment and constant transportation and energy on the moon to make the machines work. (http://www.quora.com...) If this plan passes then it would cause a drastic increase in taxes and that is something that the soon to be Republican majority will not allow to pass. We can observe from the Government shutdown last year when Tea Party Members Ted Cruz and Rand Paul both refused to pass any type of budget unless the government defunds Obamacare. Under Obamacare US taxes have increased by 7-8% and image the fit that will occur when the price tag of this will happen. (http://jeffduncan.house.gov...)