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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 9728087" data-attributes="member: 5889">Its actually an interesting question if that kind of longevity is even possible. Sake of argument lets say your a super advanced race that uses nanites or something to repair and maintain everything, perfect over time. Well those nanites themselves have to be repaired and replicate....and with every replication comes the risk of an imperfection.Our DNA is amazing at replicating accurately at high speed, but mistakes still happen. And even if a nanites system has a replication ability that is even more accurate....unless its 100% some measure of error will be introduced over time, and eventually the system will shift in some direction away from its exact function.Is it actually possible to replicate things so perfectly that no error is ever introduced? Perhaps, we don't have the capability to do that, but perhaps there is an advanced technique to do just that. Once you have that, perfect maintenance is simply a measure of energy and resource expenditure, but it would be rather trivial to maintain something over any arbitrarily long period once you have that capability.</blockquote>