We understand it’s weird for a discussion on space settlements to ask what the cost of rent is going to be or whether the local store is charging too much for canned goods, but this is the stuff regular lives are made of. Space-settlement proposals tend to skip this, assuming that our awesome spacefarers will be focused on the task at hand and perpetually oriented around the glory of settlement itself. We should always remember that these settlers will be regular people, and regular people’s daily concerns are much less about grand narratives than about their homes, their jobs, and their
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