I had a feeling you'd say something like this...
Destiny is not "forever" old. Just a few million years. Saying it is would be ridiculous. A few million years is not forever.
Destiny is not a closed system, it gets power from stars.
So far there have been plenty of stars for Destiny to recharge. . I don't see how this is relevant at all.
The decay of the universe doesn't have anything to do with Destiny, on a galactic timescale Destiny is brand new, its short existence could be considered negligible
Are you saying that Destiny is as old or much older than the Universe ?
So far the strong force has had no problems whatsoever keeping quarks and gluons together to form the neutrons and protons, and no problems holding the netrons and protons together to form the core of the atom. The attraction between negatively charged electrons and the positively charged nucleus is also not going anywhere currently => the atoms are still intact. The electrostatic bonds that form molecules are also still very much here.
Regarding the "100% efficient" figure - as I said before Destiny is not a closed system, it gets its energy from stars. The internal systems have also degraded a bit and will continue to do so - but very slowly.(the "battery" can only go as far as 30-40% and one of the FTL engines was also showing its age)
I don't see what your problem with the show is. The timescales from the show are WAY too short for universe wide decay to set in so that matter itself would come apart.
Let me put this another way.
Razor thin beer cans can last 200-500 years. Plastic soda bottles- 450 Years.
If they're not exposed to oxygen, sunlight or water, plastics can last many more hundreds of years, even thousands.
Destiny hasn't had an atmosphere for most of its existence and is protected by an impenetrable shield (under normal conditions).
A glass bottle made with our crappy Earth technology lasts from 500 years to a million.
Styrofoam is practically immortal. It will outlast our sun (if it doesn't completely melt Earth's surface during the red giant phase). That's billions of years.
And this is just what we managed to make so far.
The Ancients with their superior technology are very capable of producing synthetic materials that can easily last millions of years. It's not even that much of a stretch.
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The decay of the universe doesn't have anything to do with Destiny, on a galactic timescale Destiny is brand new, its short existence could be considered negligible
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So far the strong force has had no problems whatsoever keeping quarks and gluons together to form the neutrons and protons, and no problems holding the netrons and protons together to form the core of the atom. The attraction between negatively charged electrons and the positively charged nucleus is also not going anywhere currently => the atoms are still intact. The electrostatic bonds that form molecules are also still very much here.
Regarding the "100% efficient" figure - as I said before Destiny is not a closed system, it gets its energy from stars. The internal systems have also degraded a bit and will continue to do so - but very slowly.(the "battery" can only go as far as 30-40% and one of the FTL engines was also showing its age)
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Let me put this another way.
Razor thin beer cans can last 200-500 years. Plastic soda bottles- 450 Years.
If they're not exposed to oxygen, sunlight or water, plastics can last many more hundreds of years, even thousands.
Destiny hasn't had an atmosphere for most of its existence and is protected by an impenetrable shield (under normal conditions).
A glass bottle made with our crappy Earth technology lasts from 500 years to a million.
Styrofoam is practically immortal. It will outlast our sun (if it doesn't completely melt Earth's surface during the red giant phase). That's billions of years.
And this is just what we managed to make so far.
The Ancients with their superior technology are very capable of producing synthetic materials that can easily last millions of years. It's not even that much of a stretch.
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