At a certain point in time it has to have a paradigm shift or it doesn't work anymore:
Different materials, different, tools, etc. - just different

45/n
Something has got to give something has got to be different.

A whale can grow so large compared to elephant because it is in (and has to be in) the ocean.

46/n
Instead maybe try a smallish system then, run a new smallish system in a similar way e.g. cells

Sometimes duplication allows things to evolve differently.

47/n
Consider the 50 states.

Or better yet consider the near 200 countries

Or even better again consider all the individual towns and cities spread across them.

48/n ImageImageImage
To close with an apparent paraphrasing of Dr. Dwanye Beck

Do you want 600lbs of lover?

It depends is it four 150lb lovers or one 600lb lover?

49/n
Put another way:

Do you want a 100kg of boulder in one blow or 1kg pebbles spread across a long span of time?

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