Spaceship construction contest

[Saka]

RULES:
-Must be in life
-Voting once every 10 entries
-Has to be found/made by YOU
-Elementary only please
Entries must specify:
(Speed
(Program used
(Min Pop.
(RLE
(Optional: why it's special)

Here's mine:
2c/5, found with WLS, min population 151.

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x = 33, y = 19, rule = B3/S23
11bo9bo$11bo7b3o5b3o$7b2obo8bo5b2o$8bob2o6bo2bob2obob2o$4b2obo5bo4b2o
2bobobo$b4o4b2ob4o3b4ob2o2b2o$2ob3o4b2o6bo2bo2bo4bo$b2o9b3obo4b3o8bo$
14b2ob3ob2obo6b2o$23bo6bo$14b2ob3ob2obo6b2o$b2o9b3obo4b3o8bo$2ob3o4b2o
6bo2bo2bo4bo$b4o4b2ob4o3b4ob2o2b2o$4b2obo5bo4b2o2bobobo$8bob2o6bo2bob
2obob2o$7b2obo8bo5b2o$11bo7b3o5b3o$11bo9bo!

It was my first 2c/5

[biggiemac]

Would me submitting the Waterbear be against the spirit of the contest?

[Saka]

Would me submitting the Waterbear be against the spirit of the contest?

But you didnt make it ALL by yourself, right?

[biggiemac]

Depends what you take as given. The program to generate helices was a collaborative effort between codeholic, oblique, and others, but once the program existed it was simple to use, much like WLS. If the base reaction, helix, and *WSS edge shooters are given as public knowledge, then the aspects of design and construction specific to completing the Waterbear were almost exclusively me.

However, I of course don't claim to be the sole reason the ship exists, nor that I could have pulled it out of a hat without contributions from the community. But that would be a dodgy claim for you to make of that 2c/5 as well, since more reasonably WLS found it under your direction, and WLS was the product of work by others years ago.

I made the earlier suggestion more as a protest than a serious entry, since most of the effort I and many others put into CGoL is intended to advance What-Has-Been-Discovered rather than What-I-Personally-Can-Take-Credit-For. The forums have had some members in the past that were rather obsessed with laying claim to discoveries, and it tends to cause problems and hurt feelings. I mean no offense, and am kind of sorry to have put this paragraph in the middle of a lighthearted contest, but I hope its message makes sense.

[Saka]

Updated rules. Construction does not mean construction construction