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In the meantime, the moon bases have been cancelled, astronauts brought back. Nobody has managed to turn profit from space, besides a chain of space hotels in LEO and a small self-sufficient Lunar hotel, and a patent-protected 815-kilometre wide Mylar disk in geosynchronous orbit, that at noon creates an artificial solar eclipse on a precise point of the Earth's surface. This point is an island bought by the corporation that built the disk, and since its construction, the value of land went through the roof and thousands of people spend their vacations in the hotels built there.
A lonely flag rests on the surface of Mars, and depleted nuclear mini-submarines lie in Europa's underground oceans, as dead as they are hidden.
97% of the Baby Boomers are dead. They came too early for immortality. But, thankfully, this means that 97% of the ethics bandwagoners are dead too. Stem cells, genetic enhancements, augmented reality implants, telomere reconstruction, nanosurgery and consciousness-accelerating drugs are finally here because there's nobody left to complain about them. And I had a Wendy Wright joke here, but no.