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by Henchman21 38 days ago
> Not growing is completely unacceptable; it is anathema

Succinctly put and so very both unfortunate and accurate. The only other thing I can think of that grows endlessly is cancer. There’s an analogy in there if you squint hard enough.

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Cancer does not grow endlessly.
It eventually kills the host. That was part of the analogy, well done you found it!
Doesn't it?
Up until death, yes.
Well, it depends... Biology is complicated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease

Ah, the "colonize the stars solution".