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Settling the solar system will take a very very long time simply because our solar system is a very very big place. Generations from now, new frontier settlements will still be starting somewhere in the solar system, an endless nursery for new communities. Some of those communities will be affiliated with other like-minded settlements because of shared political or religious beliefs. Others will connect through trade and commerce. There might even be those space shtetls whose culture and mythos may be traced to some common ancestry back on Earth. Others will emerge fully independent of Earthly traditions.
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Gregg, J. (2021). Forever Frontiers. In: The Cosmos Economy. Copernicus, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62569-6_10
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