John Carter McKnight advises us to get over our bashfulness and just come right out with it: We want space settlement.

Interestingly, this essay indirectly touches on some of the same themes as I have been covering here in the "Hoffer on Space" series, in his list of reasons why space settlement is a good idea in itself (rather than as a positive side effect of some high-minded, ivory-tower "exploration" program).

[via Mark Whittington]