by the time we could even regularly get to the asteroid belt without too much trouble, we would have evolved past the need for dirty hydrocarbons. we will have developed "free" energy sources that give us enough energy to do whatever we need to do in any given week. everyone would be happy, and we would only work to better ourselves, with no thought to profit. we would have the ability to transport across the solar system without even getting on a ship of any sort.
it would be the perfect utopian Star Trek universe.
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