Naomi says that shipments of food left the devastated Ganymede station despite the food shortages being experienced by the people on the station. This mirrors real world examples during the Great Famine in Ireland and the Holodomor in Ukraine where food was transported out of famine afflicted areas leading to millions of deaths.
Nico describing to Bobbie how he can tell that she is a Martian by how she walks is very similar to the opening of "Double Star" by Robert A. Heinlein where Lorenzo identifies the spaceman by how he walks.