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## I have constructed a lightspeed spaceship in B3/S23!

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### I have constructed a lightspeed spaceship in B3/S23!

Golly, it turns out that lightspeed spaceships are actually possible after all!

Until recently, it seemed impossible. People haven't attempted to make a ship like this because it didn't seem to fit into mathematics. I don't think we realized that this is CGoL we're talking about, so I worked and worked for the past year and a half to combine wave reactions and lightspeed bubble rakes.

Like most ships, it's very big, however I was able to reduce its size significantly down to what can fit inside a codebox!

Legibility of RLE is questionable at times, but please believe me!

It consists of a lightspeed wave puffer puffing tubs, being stabilized at the ends by gliders, and said gliders are fed back into the lightspeed rake by an external device.

But I had a fun time making it.

x = 10207, y = 10085, rule = 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Let it run in HashLife at around 8^10, it's a very high period mechanism.

Exciting discovery, right? I hope this is worthy of a thread.
get down with the sickness.

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### Re: I have constructed a lightspeed spaceship in B3/S23!

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### Re: I have constructed a lightspeed spaceship in B3/S23!

Hah, nice job, using the lightspeed telegraph's beehive chain as a lightspeed helix (can we call it that?) is a cute way of getting around the vacuum speed propagation problems.

Running under hashlife isn't necessary to see how it works, but I can see why it came out so high-period--pretty much every reaction is coprime with one another!

EDIT: Alright, fun's over. To avoid confusing future historians, this is an April Fool's joke.
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### Re: I have constructed a lightspeed spaceship in B3/S23!

Speaking of spaceships, it appears that apgsearch has chosen an auspicious day to finally find a loafer-producing soup:

http://catagolue.appspot.com/object?apgcode=xq7_3nw17862z6952&rule=b3s23

Here's the soup in question:

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x = 16, y = 16, rule = B3/S23bbbobbobobooboob$booobbobbbbbbooo$obbbooboboobbobb$bobbobbobbbboboo$bbbbbobbobbbbbob$oobbobobobobobbo$bbbooobobbobbobb$bbooobbobooobobb$oobbbbbbbbobbobb$obbbobooobbooboo$bbobboooobboobob$boobbbbbbbbbbboo$boooobbbboobbbob$obb5obbbobbbobbb$bbbboobobooobobb$oobbboboboobbboo!#C [[ THUMBNAIL THUMBSIZE 2 PAUSE 7 GPS 2 LOOP 20 AUTOSTART ]] #C Oddly enough, the same soup also produces#C interesting results in other rules:#C http://catagolue.appspot.com/object?apgcode=xs146_sa9as0v99960v999m011v110vzr888b0j888g0j888j0q23220jaaaizv22xfgggf0fgggf0vgggg09iiic&rule=b78s12345678x = 16, y = 16, rule = B78/S12345678bbbobbobobooboob$booobbobbbbbbooo$obbbooboboobbobb$bobbobbobbbboboo$bbbbbobbobbbbbob$oobbobobobobobbo$bbbooobobbobbobb$bbooobbobooobobb$oobbbbbbbbobbobb$obbbobooobbooboo$bbobboooobboobob$boobbbbbbbbbbboo$boooobbbboobbbob$obb5obbbobbbobbb$bbbboobobooobobb$oobbboboboobbboo!

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### Re: I have constructed a lightspeed spaceship in B3/S23!

Suspicious. Can't see any xq7 section on b3s23/C1
Please, stop spam searching Snowflakes.

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### Re: I have constructed a lightspeed spaceship in B3/S23!

Majestas32 wrote:Suspicious. Can't see any xq7 section on b3s23/C1

It's in super small print. You have to use a special computer to be able to magnify the page enough.
Things to work on:
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- Find a C/10 in Day and Night
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### Re: I have constructed a lightspeed spaceship in B3/S23!

Majestas32 wrote:Suspicious. Can't see any xq7 section on b3s23/C1

Well, duh, he posted that on April Fools and that apgcode in the bottom section of the post leads to a pattern that says so. If you look at that soup on the loafer's object page, it's not coloured black, implying it's in some other symmetry - almost certainly a hacked apgsearch on dvgrn's part.

EDIT: Oh, wait, never mind, the explanation is even simpler than that. Dave Greene's post's link's text suggests it leads to http://catagolue.appspot.com/object/xq7 ... 6952/b3s23, but it actually links to http://cranemtn.com/catagolue.appspot.c ... _b3s23.htm, a page just made to look like Catagolue.

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### Re: I have constructed a lightspeed spaceship in B3/S23!

This is what the real soup, generated from the actual catagolue.appspot.com/hashsoup, does:
*..****...*.*..*.*..*.***.******.**.**.**.*.***..*.***..*.***..*..*....**..*..*...***..*..**.*..*.*.**..**.**....*......*.*.***.......***.*.*..**.**..****....*..****.*..**.*.*****.....**.*..*...****.**.*.**..*******...*.**..**.*.*.**...***.*..*.******.**..
x₁=ηx
V ⃰_η=c²√(Λη)
K=(Λu²)/2
Pₐ=1−1/(∫^∞_t₀(p(t)ˡ⁽ᵗ⁾)dt)

$$x_1=\eta x$$
$$V^*_\eta=c^2\sqrt{\Lambda\eta}$$
$$K=\frac{\Lambda u^2}2$$
$$P_a=1-\frac1{\int^\infty_{t_0}p(t)^{l(t)}dt}$$

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### Re: I have constructed a lightspeed spaceship in B3/S23!

About dvgrn's April Fool's prank, he also edited some of the comments of the loafer page.
Catagolue page on loafer wrote:On 2017-01-09 at 08:59:11 UTC, 27saka.fitrady wrote:

after 187 objects and 9060814727022 loaves, nope, not yet.

Dvgrn on his modded Catagolue page wrote:On 2018-03-31 at 08:59:11 UTC, 27saka.fitrady wrote:

after 187 objects and 9060814727022 loaves... FINALLY a loafer has arrived!

There's also this one on the modded Catagolue page
Dvgrn on his modded Catagolue page wrote:On 2018-4-01 at 02:03:04 UTC, Someone wrote:

Hang on, there's something odd going on here.

Very sneaky...

Also, that was me who posted the "2016-12-22 comment"
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x = 17, y = 10, rule = B3/S23b2ob2obo5b2o$11b4obo$2bob3o2bo2b3o$bo3b2o4b2o$o2bo2bob2o3b4o$bob2obo5bo2b2o$2b2o4bobo2b3o$bo3b5ob2obobo$2bo5bob2o$4bob2o2bobobo! (Check gen 2) Saka Posts: 2507 Joined: June 19th, 2015, 8:50 pm Location: In the kingdom of Sultan Hamengkubuwono X ### Re: I have constructed a lightspeed spaceship in B3/S23! It's worth saying that Dave has still done something nontrivial here, namely finding a 7-tick predecessor of a loafer in a 16-by-16 box. To get this into actual Catagolue, he now needs to find a SHA-256 preimage of this soup (which is even more nontrivial). What do you do with ill crystallographers? Take them to the mono-clinic! calcyman Posts: 1640 Joined: June 1st, 2009, 4:32 pm ### Re: I have constructed a lightspeed spaceship in B3/S23! Still better than this piece of junk: x = 16, y = 16, rule = B3/S23o5bob3ob2obo$b2ob2o2bob2ob3o$11bo3bo$12bobo$b2o2bobo3bobobo$bobo2b2obo2bo2bo$b3o9b3o$12b4o$8bo3b4o$obo3b3o4b3o$obo2bo6bo2bo$6bo6bobo$b2o4b2o2bo2b2o$11bo2b2o$o3bo6bob3o$2obo2b2ob7o!
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