Middleweight spaceship
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| Pattern type | Spaceship | ||||||||||
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| Number of cells | 11 | ||||||||||
| Bounding box | 6×5 | ||||||||||
| Direction | Orthogonal | ||||||||||
| Period | 4 | ||||||||||
| Speed | c/2 | ||||||||||
| Heat | 15 | ||||||||||
| Discovered by | John Conway | ||||||||||
| Year of discovery | 1970 | ||||||||||
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The middleweight spaceship (or MWSS for short) is the third most common spaceship (after the glider and lightweight spaceship). It was found by John Conway in 1970 and travels at c/2 orthogonally. It can support various non-standard components, such as pushalong 1.
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[edit] External links
- Middleweight spaceship at the Life Lexicon