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I wonder... if you feed a cat more, it will become bigger, and so it will produce more heat.



Assume a spherical cat. As the cat gets bigger, the surface to volume ratio goes down, so the cat gets hotter. This will lower its metabolism, which means that the food calories increasingly go toward storage, which makes the cat get even larger. Asymptotically speaking, the cat tends to become a furry blob of melted lard.


Can you come to my farm? I have a problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow




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