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Bill: Ratification of the International Space Agency
Details
Submitted by[?]: Bismarckian National Resistance (BNR)
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill proposes for the ratification of a treaty. It will require two-thirds of the legislature to vote in favor[?]. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: September 2894
Description[?]:
This bill asks for the ratification of the International Space Agency. If this treaty is ratified, it becomes binding and will define national law. |
Proposals
Article 1
Ratify the International Space Agency.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 17:34:08, February 14, 2010 CET | From | Bismarckian National Resistance (BNR) | To | Debating the Ratification of the International Space Agency |
Message | We are already in compliance, as I said before. Please do not abstain. |
Date | 22:49:56, February 14, 2010 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the Ratification of the International Space Agency |
Message | We aren't sure that there is any gain to us funding research in the Space Station. While it is undoubtedly a worthwhile cause, it has to be asked whether spending taxpayers money is justified when it does not return an obvious benefit to them. |
Date | 23:35:55, February 14, 2010 CET | From | Bismarckian National Resistance (BNR) | To | Debating the Ratification of the International Space Agency |
Message | The space station is the first step in the expansion of the Terran people beyond the planet. Undoubtedly there will come a day when there are simply too many Terrans for Terra to support, and some will have to find a new planet to reside on. Admittedly this will be far in the future, but there are still current-day benefits: our scientific understanding of space, zero gravity, orbits, etc. will increase; space travel could become a form of tourism; airplane-like vehicles that momentarily fly on the edges of the atmosphere such so that they orbit Terra will decrease travel times immensely; and many other advances. Just the two latter scenarios could easily pay back the money the taxpayers will spend. |
Date | 17:56:25, February 15, 2010 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the Ratification of the International Space Agency |
Message | while we do believe such innovations would be available to us should the ISA achieve anything, we are prepared to accept that it is probably best to be at the vanguard of these achievements. |
Date | 20:45:57, February 15, 2010 CET | From | Bismarckian National Resistance (BNR) | To | Debating the Ratification of the International Space Agency |
Message | Precisely. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||
yes |
Total Seats: 500 | ||||
no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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