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Re: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
Posted: May 20th, 2018, 1:28 am
by KittyTac
Block: A brick.
Beehive: Exactly what it says on the tin.
Mango: A mango.
High-Bandwidth Telegraph: Either a telegraph or an Ethernet cable.
Re: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
Posted: May 20th, 2018, 3:43 am
by Redstoneboi
KittyTac wrote:Block: A brick.
Beehive: Exactly what it says on the tin.
Mango: A mango.
High-Bandwidth Telegraph: Either a telegraph or an Ethernet cable.
you know the reason i wanted someone else to do these is because i ended up just saying block: block, mango: mango.
I guess that's because whoever named them thought the same way we do.
Pond: a wishing well
Re: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
Posted: June 20th, 2018, 3:23 am
by Redstoneboi
Beehive: an egg
Glider: an ant
Queen bee: a queen ant
Gosper Glider Gun: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Re: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
Posted: June 20th, 2018, 3:42 am
by KittyTac
Universal constructor: A 3D printer.
Re: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
Posted: August 3rd, 2018, 12:29 pm
by KittyTac
Cordership: a blimp. Big, slow, and not very dense.
Re: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
Posted: August 7th, 2018, 4:29 pm
by Hdjensofjfnen
Redstoneboi wrote:Note: 1 generation is 1 planck time, and is equal to 10^-43 seconds.
1 cell is 1 planck length, about 1.6×10−35 meters.
riding on gemini would just be trying to catch an atom that keeps on teleporting itself, moving at the speed of damn sound.
LWSS
Moves at 40000 km/s.
Spins at 628319 km/s.
Barf bags, anyone?
Re: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
Posted: August 15th, 2018, 1:19 am
by Sarp
It spins faster than light?
Re: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
Posted: August 16th, 2018, 8:59 pm
by Hdjensofjfnen
If we are considering in three dimensions when the speed of light was devised for two, yes.
Re: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
Posted: September 7th, 2018, 3:51 am
by Hunting
Redstoneboi wrote:OTCA metapixel: if you look closely at your computer screen, you can see these.
kok's galaxy: one, giant, spinning, galaxy.
guns: lasers? or airplane hangars? or factories?
depends,
gosper glider gun: laser
buckaroo/snark: mirror
V-gun: ?
highway robber: that one time you didn't look where you were going and accidentally bump a piece of bread
eater1: sharp fish hook, tears gliders and eats bread-pushing snails
Sir Robin: sea horse or a guy from a movie
snail: loafer is evolving!
R-pentomino (and the stuff it evolves into): bomb
fuses and wicks: burning rope, occasionally leaves ash
UTM: a huge building made specifically for computation
universal constructor: fabricator
waterbear and caterpillar: themselves
Blinker?
Re: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
Posted: September 7th, 2018, 5:18 am
by Redstoneboi
blinker: a spinning coin / helicopter blade (both viewed from above)
Re: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
Posted: September 7th, 2018, 7:36 am
by Hunting
Redstoneboi wrote:blinker: a spinning coin / helicopter blade (both viewed from above)
Tub?
Re: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
Posted: September 7th, 2018, 7:02 pm
by Redstoneboi
a wheel
Re: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
Posted: September 8th, 2018, 7:56 am
by Hunting
Redstoneboi wrote:a wheel
Boat?
Re: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
Posted: September 10th, 2018, 3:04 am
by Redstoneboi
hunting, you should try to do these instead of just asking what i think everything is.
boat: the tip of an arrow
Re: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
Posted: September 10th, 2018, 3:35 am
by Hunting
Redstoneboi wrote:hunting, you should try to do these instead of just asking what i think everything is.
boat: the tip of an arrow
Ship: A piece of glass
Re: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
Posted: September 13th, 2018, 9:32 am
by KittyTac
Conwaylife.com: A research lab.