The Great Debate

I am not so good at debating. I admit this. I am a pacifist.

However, today was my last final and it was in the History of the Universe class. Yeah, joy, right?
There was a structured debate and test today. Now most of the kids in this class are boys because, let's face it, most art school girls do not like math and science. Therefore it will come as no surprise to you that I had my ass served to me today.

However, aside from the male posturing (by God I hate it when a large group of males have to prove a point in front of each other... it's like watching gorillas beat their chests) some laughs were had as it was not such a serious debate.

To begin, there were three chairs. One person from each team would sit in a chair. The teams were:

A. In 10,000 years humanity is gone because we will have exhausted the Earth and died off.
B. (My team) In 10,000 years humans will have left Earth and started colonizing other planets.
C. In 10,000 years humans are farming what's left of the land and most species of animals and plants go extinct aside from the ones we consume.

There's about 30 people in this class, so it was a bit of a chaotic ruckus. Anyways, highlights from the debate were:

Team A is saying something is refute Team B. This is all said in rapid fire succession:
A: Well, none of this is going to matter if Yellowstone happened to explode!
B: You're right.
A: Yes. Thank you...... *stunned silence*
(Class erupts in laughter)

Team C is justifying artificial selection:
C: So we're not just gonna take off and go to other planets. We like our animals. Just not all of them.
B: Like what?
C: Cheetahs. And elephants. They're useless anyways.

At one point a German student is sitting in the Team A chair. The members from B and C are going at it. He cannot get a word in edgewise.

Me: C'mon, get in there! You're German, invading is what you do! Blitzkrieg, blitzkrieg!
A: Gah!

Finally, some idiot on our team is talking about building a floating biosphere.
B: We have the technology. We can build something to orbit us, something the size of half of our planet.
C: Half the size of our planet? What are we building, the Death Star?