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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Adventurers!]]'', temples are designed with [http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/20030117.html thousand-year rustproofing].
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''
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** Eina-afa is a few million years (1-2 galactic "extinction cycles") old, but it does have automated systems for maintenance of anything that isn't built from near-unbreakable exotic materials. Oisri from the same era is not as overtly complicated, but it had gravitics up and running, so who knows what else; it was still covered with micro-engraved text all over, but the surface was protected by a layer of ice.
** The [[Dyson Sphere|All-Star]] is at least dozens of extinction cycles old, then again, it has enough of ''unused'' processing power that it could transfer the entire population of a galactic civilization at its peak, at least over a hundred times over, and run a thriving noosphere for them all.
** Petey is [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2019-04-17 sceptical] about this as an approach.
{{quote|'''Petey''': Because "needs no maintenance" is a lie. When entropy finally exposes the lie, nobody knows HOW to do maintenance. Then everybody dies, and entropy wins again.}}
* Lampshaded in ''[[Starslip]]'' with Vore,<ref>AKA [[Checkerboard Nightmare|Vaporware]]</ref> a robot from the 21st century found sealed inside a ''water heater'' launched into space the 35th:
{{quote|'''Vore''': [[What Year Is This?]] How long was I in there?
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'''Vore''': Man! The Japanese build things to ''last!'' }}
* [[Sweet and Sour Grapes (webcomic)|Sweet and Sour Grapes]] hangs a lampshade on this trope, with Silas (a ghost) surprised to see how well the ruins of his old home have held up.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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