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No software in human history has been built to run for centuries without us. The longest-lived systems we have -- deep-space probes near 50 years, banking code near 60 -- only survive because people keep tending them But Bitcoin proved a different thing: software can run for over a decade with no one at the center to keep it alive. The operator can vanish and it just keeps going So what happens when you try this on an interstellar probe? 500, 1,000 years. Its hardware will fail. Its power will fade. Its memory will corrupt. And light-delay makes human help physically impossible. It cannot be tended. It can only be designed to decay well. I'm solving this problem -- starting with an operating system that treats physical decay not as a fault to fix, but as the governing design constraint Designing software to outlive its makers shouldn't be speculative. It's now possible, and the interstellar use case makes it unavoidable To keep running long after we're gone July 10 2026 hello world Mru

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