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[Bullet51]

andyetwestilldonthaveanaturalloaferortinyc18ship

If a c/18 ship ever shows up from apgsearch I will give 50 USD to its discoverer. I feel extremely safe that it won't though.

[get_Snacked]

But it's not even a fuse! It's just a random reaction that involves a regular arrangement of blinkers. How is it remarkable among myriads of similar patterns?

Eh, somehow someone somewhere could combine them to possibly create more blinkers

Caterpillar 2.0's very discovery could rest upon this useless discovery...

(second one is comedically a Discord attachment)

[get_snackeTWO]

this one HAS to be my favorite:

EDIT: GUYS QUICK look what I found!!!! ...

As written, this looks like a conduit that changes empty space into a herschel and a century, which would indeed be truly remarkable.

[pzq_alex]

It's often very hard to tell what your intentions are from the snippets of circuitry you post. I did try looking up "RS-NOR", but everything I found seemed to be defined in terms of Minecraft blocks.

Minecraft is of course the de facto standard of circuitry...

[b3s23love]

Klaus Schwab plans to transform British red squirrels into steampunk gray-killing machines, according to leaked internal documents

EDIT:

No way! Block 2 boat hassler?

MY EXISTENCE IS SPONSORED BY 🗣 THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT 🗣 (shoutouts to shadow wiz[z]ard money gang!)

EDIT 2:

Also, just an off-topic pro tip, don't die. It's bad for your health.

EDIT 3:

You can make a macro outta this!

EDIT 4:

Stop behaving like moderator!
In this forum there are many moderators.

[confocaloid]

Does anyone have a reaction where a glider approaches a Cordership head-on and is reflected in the opposite direction? In the interests of minimising N, the Cordership should be as simple as possible.

You put your two gliders in, you take your two gliders out, you put your two gliders in, and you shake yourself about; you do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around; that's what it's all about!

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x = 47, y = 102, rule = B3/S23
19b2o$19b4o$19bob2o2$20bo$19b2o$19b3o$21bo$33b2o$33b2o7$36bo$35b2o$34b
o3bo$35b2o2bo$40bo$37bobo$38bo$38bo$38b2o$38b2o3$13bo10bo$12b5o5bob2o
11bo$11bo10bo3bo9bo$12b2o8b3obo9b2o$13b2o9b2o12bo$2o13bo21b3o$2o35b3o
7$8b2o$8b2o11b2o$19b2o2bo$24bo3bo$18bo5bo3bo$19bo2b2o3bobo$20b3o5bo$
28bo32$41b2o$41bobo$41bo17$45b2o$44b2o$46bo!

[Redstoneboi]

p19 by mvr:

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x = 34, y = 21, rule = B3/S23
29bo$28bobo$17bo10bobo$15b3o9b2o2b2o$14bo11bo2bobo$14b2o9bob3obo$25bo
6b2o$11bo15b4obo$3bo7b2o8bo5bo2bobo$2bobo16bo6b2o2b2o$2bobo7bo8bo7bobo
$2o2b2o6bo16bobo$bobo2bo5bo8b2o7bo$bob4o15bo$2o6bo$2bob3obo9b2o$2bobo
2bo11bo$b2o2b2o9b3o$3bobo10bo$3bobo$4bo!

Interesting loop:

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x = 75, y = 61, rule = B3/S23
35bo$33b3o$32bo$17b2o13b2o$18bo$18bobo$19b2o$25bo$24bobo$23b2ob2o8bo$
24bo2bo9bo$24b2ob2o6b3o$25bobo$26bo$26bo$5b2o18bobo4b2o$6bo20bo4bo$5bo
7bo8b2obo7b3o$5b2o6bo8b3o10bo$2o19bo$o2b4o4b3o8b2o21bobo$bobo2bo3bob2o
3bobo2b2o22b2o$2o2b2o4b2o5bobo6bo19bo$2bobo14bo7b3o$2bo2bo21b2o$3b2o$
8b2o15bo$9bo14bobo$6b3o8b2o5b2o$6bo10bobo$17bo39bo$55bobo10bo$49b2o5b
2o8b3o$48bobo14bo$49bo15b2o$70b2o$46b2o21bo2bo$45b3o7bo14bobo$28bo19bo
6bobo5b2o4b2o2b2o$27b2o22b2o2bobo3b2obo3bo2bobo$27bobo21b2o8b3o4b4o2bo
$53bo19b2o$39bo10b3o8bo6b2o$39b3o7bob2o8bo7bo$42bo4bo20bo$41b2o4bobo
18b2o$48bo$48bo$47bobo$37b3o6b2ob2o$37bo9bo2bo$38bo8b2ob2o$48bobo$49bo
$54b2o$54bobo$56bo$41b2o13b2o$42bo$39b3o$39bo!

[confocaloid]

This community is sufficiently patient and forgiving that this sort of transformation (from annoying n00b to productive contributor) is possible. But it does require a great willingness and effort from you to consciously make this transformation; you can't expect others to do the work on your behalf.

[Haycat2009]

Is it just me, or do users who mistake Cgol with Life live longer, like John Conway? Can I use this to double my virtually-infinite lifespan?

[confocaloid]

Is it just me, or do users who mistake Cgol with Life live longer, like John Conway? Can I use this to double my virtually-infinite lifespan?

Never underestimate finite lifespans.

[...] We are forced to realize that there are limits beyond which we cannot go. The numbers we can deal with are not only finite, they are very finite, and we do not have time or space to solve certain problems even with the aid of the fastest computers. [...]

[confocaloid]

September 18: Mitchell Riley the first engine-based period-107 oscillator.

Carson Cheng p46 interchange hassler

[hotcrystal0]

done with animating? sAME

[haaaaaands]

disparaging comments claiming some kind of innate superiority ... apparently written by people who aren't very good at statistics.

[wirehead]

EDIT: I just realized... you can't crosspost from the forums... to the forums...[slaps forehead]

[haaaaaands]

life wisdom: surround yourself with exactly two or three living people or you'll die.

[confocaloid]

I choose to ignore your arguments and explanations.

I object to you objecting to this moderator action.

...

Congratulations on 6-tuple post.
[...]

Congratulations on 6-tuple post.

[Haycat2009]

ughhh i thought we had settled this confocaloid

i'm gonna rip my hair out

[confocaloid]

(I've occasionally wondered how the diesuper^^duperhard progression would have gone, if somebody had successfully objected early on that diehards "didn't count" if they didn't actually fit inside a 100x100 box.)

Fun can be had when multiple people play a game, all using a commonly agreed upon set of rules. However, you are expecting us to play a game under rules that you yourself are not following, so where's the fun in that?

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."

Indeed, as the saying goes: if you wanna get something done, you gotta do it yourself. ;) I like bike shedding as much as anyone else, but at the end of the day someone's gotta roll up their sleeves, pick up a brush and get paintin'.

[confocaloid]

Is there a pair of rules which are like maze with mice and mazectric with mice but with extra "cats" that can eat mice?

By the way, I think this is the first dog in CGOL, if you exclude the houndstooth agar. Cats already exist (Cheshire Cat, CatForce), but not dogs.

[HerscheltheHerschel]

That's a you thing, not me.

I used the switch engine's "synthesizer" of LifeWiki.

[confocaloid]

it's

While I don't want to put this in the CGCA thread, these were coined on Discord:

CFLA (confusing four letter acronym)
FLMD (full length multiword description)

Now if you look at the thread, there are, coined just now, MCFLAs (more confusing five letter acronyms). I hope we don't reach EMCSLAs, which you can probably figure out.

[Haycat2009]

at least one of the first oscillators of p19, p41 will be a honey farm hassler, and both will be discovered before 2024.

Wow! Both parts of this prediction turned out to be correct.

[confocaloid]

The canonical eater 2 ranked about 381st in the list, at the time when the dinosaur skeleton was exactly 100,000,005 years old.

The canonical eater 2 ranks about 381st out of 45,759 in the list of 19-cell still lifes.

[confocaloid]

[...]
"And I bet," said Alice, "that the power-line ... er ... radical axis is the perpendicular to AB, erected at E."
"You do not bet," said Lewis Carroll disapprovingly, "you guess, you conjecture, then you try to prove it--or let future generations of mathematicians try to prove or disprove your conjecture."
[...]
(Journey into Geometries, by Marta Sved with foreword by H. S. M. Coxeter and illustrations by John Stillwell, Chapter 1. Going Round in Circles)

I bet that a unit stripe is possible:

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x = 49, y = 12, rule = B015/S
o2bo15b2o11b2o13b2o$19b2o11b2o13b2o$b2o$19b2o11b2o13b2o7$9b2obo19b2o$
9b2obo19b2o!

It kind of surprises me that triple pseudo still life and quad pseudo still life don't seem to have syntheses in sjk. It looks a little difficult, but I bet a converter-based synthesis is possible.

some day we will reach 2.5... i bet geometry dash will get there first

[HerscheltheHerschel]

I time-travelled to 2050 and checked the Golly 18.pi Pattern Collection. Unfortunately, most of the text is redacted to prevent time-travel paradoxes.

Some little gems I found:

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#N elementary-camelship.rle
#O tessaron_parker, 17 July 2037
#C This is the first elementary camelship found so far. With a speed
#C of (3,1)c/8, it is by far the fastest of its velocity. Several
#C other larger ships of this velocity have been found.
#C Reference: <REDACTED>
x = 82, y = 247, rule = B3/S23
<REDACTED>

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#N silk_road.rle
#O Various, collected on 4 May 2046
#C This RLE is called “Silk Road” due to the several knightships and
#C camelships in it. It is a period-152468467356 oscillator which 
#C consists of various spaceship converters. 
#C The spaceships converted are the glider, LWSS, Schick engine,
#C 46P4H1V0, lobster, loafer, copperhead, flying saucer, 
#C 2-engine Cordership, walrus, seal, Sir Robin, caterpillar, 
#C 2340P8H3V1, and (34,7)c/156 caterpillar in that order. Each
#C spaceship is converted into a glider before it is converted
#C to the next spaceship.
#C Reference: <REDACTED>
x = 2562252579, y = 3874642908, rule = B3/S23
<REDACTED>

And some OCA goodies as well. I mainly looked into the Factorio file. (I hear they are liking me even in 2050 - a good sign?)

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#N factoriopatterncollection.rle
#O Various, collected on 20 Mar 2050 by H. H. P. M. P. Cole
#C To commemorate the birthday of H. H. P. M. P. Cole a great
#C present was created – that of the Definite Factorio
#C Oscillator Collection. It has been proven omniperiodic in
#C 2049, with the discovery of the odd-period AbhpzTa-FWKnightship
#C loop.
#C Reference: <REDACTED>
x = 7504, y = 3046, rule = R3,C0,S2,B3,N+
<REDACTED>

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#N elephantship.rle
#O xjq, 29 Feb 2032
#C This ship is made out of what is colloquially called
#C Durnak plasma - an aperiodic agar of 25% density.
#C The strange thing is that Durnak plasma can come in all forms,
#C and one of the more striking of them is this (8,3)c/79 spaceship.
#C Reference: <REDACTED>
x = 53, y = 26, rule = R3,C0,S2,B3,N+
<REDACTED>

Computing power in 2050 has grown to such a point that one can simulate the giant "Silk Road" pattern on a personal quantum computer. Scientists are still figuring out how to squash that much computing power into the size of an atom, as they found it was theoretically possible.

I have seen the Forums of 2050. It has reached over 1,000,000 members. Apparently after hopping out of the time travel machine I saw an older version of myself at a table, posting a new discovery. After the older version of me had gone away (to do some errands), I created a new account and posted a question under the username "retardationfactor".

I asked about the current status of CGOL. Freywa's son, "Parcly Taxel II", had replied me, stating that all the SKOPs had less than or equal to 104 cells, CGOL was proven omnivelocital, and a technology developed in 2031 which was a simple and fast pi to loafer+copperhead had been discovered and used to make loafer guns of all periods.

The predominant spaceship-based technologies in 2050 no longer include the glider; they mainly utilize it as an intermediate to convert between the Big Five: loafer, copperhead, 2EC, caravan (30P5H2V0), and flying saucer (25P3H1V0.1). All the conduits using standard inputs were found using ConduitForce in 2039.

Oscillators had become commonplace and no one bothered looking for them anymore, as they are as easy to find in 2050 as SLs are in 1990. However, oscillator synthesis has improved immensely. All SKOPs are less than 104 cells. Technology with speeds of c/2o, c/3o, c/4o, c/4d, and c/10o was considered trivial by then.

On the topic of SL synthesis, a finite set of synthesizable components has been found which can synthesize all but the unsynthesizable SLs.

However, the most striking thing was when I found out ConwayLife.com had split into several websites. It, in 2050, was reserved only for general discussion, hence there is also ConwayLifeShips.com, ConwayLifeSpaceshipTech.com, and ConwayLifeConvertersandTech.com.

OCA had moved to another site, OcaBoard.com. The new OCA exploration of 2050 has moved on from INT (since INT is so vanilla by then) and into HROT/HROT weighted and Multistate. Unfortunately the two parties are still arguing over which of their rulespaces have more developed technology.

There is a dedicated site for all things Factorio, much like where CGOL is at now. It was named after me and the site had the name ColeFactorio.com. Other sites have been named after their CA, including YoelHexogen.com, HaycatGrounded.com, CloseLifeVariants.com, and some more.

The 'Maximum number of 4-cell oscillators' game has been solved with a nonexplosive rule which has 1,046 4-cell oscillators. The root rule is a weighted rule in range-19 which has 276 of them, and it is not based off Factorio (like most of the earlier results).

Finally, Dave Greene's nonalogy/ennealogy (is that a word?) of books has been completed and released to the world.