Now here’s a good article on SF economics…

http://www.costik.com/inttrade.html

Explores the costs of interstellar travel: around $11 billion/kilo for a 5-light-year round trip.  Money quote:

…human beings are unlikely ever to go to the stars, given the mass entailed in the life support system necessary to keep a human alive for several decades.

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