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In article <94@beaver.cs.washington.edu> szabonj@right.UUCP (Nick Szabo) writes:
>Space settlements are another example of *future* technology.  

No, they are an example of future application of current technology.
They are much less speculative than nanotechnology or the other examples
cited; we could clearly build at least small space settlements today if
the money could be found.

(Please don't cite closed-cycle life support as a difficulty.  We
could not build a space settlement that was guaranteed to be entirely
self-sufficient, with no outside intervention ever required in its life
support, without considerably more work, but that was not my statement.
Entirely self-sufficient settlements are very uncommon even on Earth.)
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