We wanted to contribute. We saw space settlement as a near-term possibility and intended to write a sort of sociological road map—how to scale to one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand people, and beyond. A little guide to explain to the public what comes next. But we also had a few nagging concerns. Things we didn’t understand, like how to design the legal regime to make it safe to live in a solar system where dozens of nations, corporations, and possibly single individuals can sling dinosaur-annihilation-size objects at the homeworld. A clear protocol would be nice. What we found was that,
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