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== [[Web Comics]] == |
== [[Web Comics]] == |
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* In ''[[Adventurers!]]'', temples are designed with [http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/20030117.html thousand-year rustproofing]. |
* In ''[[Adventurers!]]'', temples are designed with [http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/20030117.html thousand-year rustproofing]. |
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* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' |
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** [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-08-08 Invoked] then [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-08-10 subverted] with a robot designed to play mentor to a hunter-gatherer civilization. |
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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. |
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** 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. |
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** Petey is [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2019-04-17 sceptical] about this as an approach. |
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{{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.}} |
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* 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: |
* 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: |
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{{quote|'''Vore''': [[What Year Is This?]] How long was I in there? |
{{quote|'''Vore''': [[What Year Is This?]] How long was I in there? |
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'''Vore''': Man! The Japanese build things to ''last!'' }} |
'''Vore''': Man! The Japanese build things to ''last!'' }} |
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* [[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. |
* [[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. |
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== [[Western Animation]] == |
== [[Western Animation]] == |