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A retired couple in Paris consulting a travel guide without asking for help. Calls to mind the final episode of Futurama, where Fry and Leela grow old walking an Earth that they've frozen in time and end up on top of the Eiffel tower. Thinking of towers and monuments, I wonder what form those will take once space travel and settlement become routine enough that economics are no longer the limiting factor. For practical reasons I think one might expect them to be near the orbits of larger bodies with economic purposes.

Maybe we'll chisel away at existing asteroids to carve orbiting fields of statues.

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