Post Race!

[Shaggy Hiker]

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.

[Witis]

Of course not, but they are.

Revolutionary, progressive, or radical perhaps but certainly not bizarre.

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.

They keep on growing unless they suffer a reduction in their food supply, they get sick, or they die and they will try and take over the universe unless I turn them into dinner. =)

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.

That's why it's my job to eat them before that happens. =D