Heavyweight spaceship
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| Pattern type | Spaceship | ||||||||||
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| Number of cells | 13 | ||||||||||
| Bounding box | 7×7 | ||||||||||
| Direction | Orthogonal | ||||||||||
| Period | 4 | ||||||||||
| Speed | c/2 | ||||||||||
| Heat | 19 | ||||||||||
| Discovered by | John Conway | ||||||||||
| Year of discovery | 1970 | ||||||||||
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The heavyweight spaceship (or HWSS for short) is the fourth most common spaceship (after the glider, lightweight spaceship and middleweight spaceship). It was found by John Conway in 1970 and travels at a speed of c/2 orthogonally. Its domino spark can be used to stabilize several tagalongs, including sidecar and half of x66.
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- Heavyweight spaceship at Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Life
- Heavyweight spaceship at the Life Lexicon