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A growing/shrinking spaceship consists of two spaceships. The front ship is a wick stretcher that extrudes a wick and the rear end is another spaceship of the same velocity that eventually collides with the end of the expanding wick, but instead of being destroyed by it, ignites the wick so it burns cleanly at a higher speed than that of the spaceships, until it reaches the front spaceship, at which point a new wick is extruded, ad infinitum. The population is a sawtooth that oscillates between that of the two spaceships alone, and that of the two spaceships with a fully extruded wick.[1]