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Offline Allama

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WA General Assembly Vote: "World Space Administration"
« on: July 15, 2015, 01:51:58 PM »
GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION AT VOTE

World Space Administration

A resolution to promote funding and the development of education and the arts.

Category: Education and Creativity

Area of effect: Educational

Proposed by: Bitely

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Description: NOTING the interest that humanity has of exploring the cosmos.

RECOGNIZING the need for cooperation between member states to explore the universe.

REALIZING the need for further research and development of equipment for efficient cosmic travel.

FURTHER realizing the safety risks cosmic space travel creates.

DEMANDING member states to enact safety regulations for space travel within their governed territory.

FURTHER demanding no member state shall knowingly allow a spacecraft to operate if it has fallen into disrepair.

THE World Assembly hereby Establishes the "World Space Administration" herein referred to as "W.S.A."

COMMISSIONING the W.S.A. to:

i. preform cosmos research and development.

ii. build cosmic spacecraft(s).

iii. Train cosmonauts to explore and promote WA ideals through the cosmos.

iv. Preform missions of exploration through the cosmos.

v. Create cosmos travel bylaws and policies.

vi. Regulate all WA member states cosmos travel.

FORBIDDING the W.S.A. to:

i. create, maintain or assemble a military.

ii. form and maintain a cosmic police force.

FUNDING for the W.S.A. will come from the WA fund and VOLUNTARY contributions from member states.

Don't forget to cast your own vote on "World Space Administration"!

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Re: WA General Assembly Vote: "World Space Administration"
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2015, 05:41:05 PM »
This is written pretty terribly. I voted against.

"Preform cosmic research"? "the safety risks cosmic space travel creates"? As opposed to what - Cosmic Brownie travel?
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Re: WA General Assembly Vote: "World Space Administration"
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2015, 05:50:03 PM »
To quote the TNP IFV Separatist Peoples and I wrote:

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This proposal is absolutely rife with significant issues. While the author clearly has some very aspirational ideas on the topic, the unfortunate facts about the matter leave it grasping only tenuously at a likely solution.

The actual results of this proposal are incredibly vague; the regulations are entirely unspecified, the safety precautions urged are not stated, and the entire task of regulating space is left up to a single committee, with no input whatsoever from individual states. Nor does the resolution give any guidance as to what sort of bylaws the WSA should institute, nor toward what purpose.

The proposal does not specify (nor allow bylaws to specify) how the benefits of "cosmos research" should be disseminated, or even that they should be at all. It would require the dissemination of "WA ideals" which are ambiguous at best. The proposal does not stipulate how the spoils, if any, of space exploration might be shared, nor does it allow the WSA to regulate this. The WSA's authority to regulate "cosmos travel" is both too specific and too vague: any space travel can be regulated in any way (without guidance,) and yet the distribution of discovered technologies, resources, and knowledge remains ungoverned.

This proposal has entirely failed to address the very complex issues of international space exploration. It is the determination of the Ministry that it is very much in the best interests of The North Pacific, and even the entire WA, to vote AGAINST this proposal.
                                 
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Re: WA General Assembly Vote: "World Space Administration"
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2015, 05:52:05 PM »
Quite agreed, the proposal is massively lacking in substance and the way it's written is fuckin' atrocious. I also want to vote against this.

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Re: WA General Assembly Vote: "World Space Administration"
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2015, 06:07:08 PM »
Quite agreed, the proposal is massively lacking in substance and the way it's written is fuckin' atrocious. I also want to vote against this.
Yep, bout sums that up.

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Re: WA General Assembly Vote: "World Space Administration"
« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2015, 02:51:20 AM »
I'd generally be in favor, which I was ready to be, but then I read the proposal... :whoops:

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Re: WA General Assembly Vote: "World Space Administration"
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2015, 04:05:19 PM »
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The General Assembly resolution World Space Administration passed by a narrow margin: 6,727 votes For to 6,443 Against.

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Re: WA General Assembly Vote: "World Space Administration"
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2015, 04:12:26 PM »
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The General Assembly resolution World Space Administration passed by a narrow margin: 6,727 votes For to 6,443 Against.

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Re: WA General Assembly Vote: "World Space Administration"
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2015, 11:47:20 PM »
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The General Assembly resolution World Space Administration passed by a narrow margin: 6,727 votes For to 6,443 Against.

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