Quote Originally Posted by Witis View Post


I wouldn't call them bizarre.
Of course not, but they are. These things that keep growing do not do so at a linnear rate, and they won't progress to infinite size if they lived infinitely long. You can figure that out for yourself by thinking about dimensions: If length increases linnearly, then surface area increases at roughly the square of that rate and volume at roughly the cube of that rate. The amount of energy used by the organism is related to the number of cells, and therefore should be proportional to the volume. At some point, it becomes physically impossible to get enough food into the gut to provide the energy. This will be true of your robotic animal as well as your real animal unless you come up with a totally artificial energy source, but that would hardly be comparable to anything.