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Hi, Phil and everyone, Paweł here (you can call me Paul, Polish is hard).
This article highlighted the existence of Urbit to me (and probably many more)... and I shouldn't probably talk about your startup, since this thread is arguing exactly against it. Just to say: you're doing good work – and I might meet you some time in Urbit's chat :D
Lidl was caught on 'colonisation' practices in Poland, where they used development loans to drive prices lower than local stores could afford to beat.
Or it's just someone that wanted me to think so. I really don't know now.
Both current stage of development and accuracy of "mind reading" technology and the price of equipment used on ISS would prevent this from happening. That, combined with high cost of failure (possible damage to life-supporting systems), make me believe that such a system would be infeasible.
On the other hand, NASA experimented with volleyball-sized self-propelled semi-autonomous robots, called Personal Satellite Assistants. More on the program here, but no info about what happened to the prototypes: http://psa.arc.nasa.gov/