Its glorious old buildings have had to be patched up and re-built on numerous occasions.

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In other words, if ageing humans can be patched up for 30 years, he argues, science will have developed sufficiently to make further repairs more effective, postponing death indefinitely.

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According to EA, Dead Space 3 will not be patched to close up any resource farming exploits.

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