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This whole thingamajig is so simple, you'd think someone would have discovered it by now.


Someone has. (Actually this has been known for a while - this was the most recent example I could find.)


This is probably, at this point, the most redicovered conduit. Its R133, and I also made that ...

muzik wrote: August 17th, 2026, 6:35 am Are there any independent reflectors that become dependent the second you overclock them?

SIlver’s reflector? AT p250 it becomes dependent

Is there a compatible beehive factory which could be gunned with this?

x = 20, y = 21, rule = B3/S23
15bo$8b3o3bobo$2o6bobo4bo$2o6b3o2$18bo$17bobo$10b3o4bobo$2bo7bobo5bo$
bobo6b3o$2bo5$11b4o$10b6o$10bo4bo$11bo2bo$9bobo2bobo$9b2o4b2o!



The thing is that is has a relatively low period and ...

unname4798 wrote: August 17th, 2026, 2:57 am We took like a 1.5 year break from Word Chains.
2500th post! It's 2026, so I'm not banned.

Yep! I think this is a long enough cooloff.

Rule 1:
Never dig straight down.

Rule 2:
Never dig straight up.

...

Rule 110:
Anything capable of emulating Rule 110 is Turing Complete.

Resu wrote: September 10th, 2025, 1:31 pm Are there dependent conduits where the dependent is as in a dependent reflector?

There are: They are found in hasslers.

Just search hassler and you will get a megaton of them.

CARuler wrote: September 6th, 2025, 6:58 pm A: a TREE(3) long and 4 wide (c/SCG(3))

Q: what is the smallest spaceship to go at c/TREE(3)

A: Block/Tub, because TREE(3) is infinite and anything divided by infinity is zero aka no motion.

Q: What is the smallest 3c/10 spaceship?

Q: What causes these symptoms of LWTDS?

A: Staring at computer screens for too long.
Q: What is OotT? Is it CA-related?


A: Its an active region newly found - and caused many elementary Herschel conduits to be classed as composite. Fx158 is one of them

Q: What is the main reaction for OotT ...

Does an actual "log replicator rule" With a REAL Log replicator exist?

And what rules provably only have spaceships of a finite number of speeds? Determination is one - but any others?

Q: Who is the Buddha?

A: No pattern has yet been confirmed to have achieved nirvana, although some suspect it may be the spaghetti monster.

Q: What are the (known) symptoms of LWTDS ?


A: Simple nausea, vomiting, and lethargy to respiratory insufficiency, cardiac failure, hypotension ...

What is the rarest object that has been used in a transparent reaction? Is there anything rarer than transparent mango ?

EDIT: Transparent eater 1


Pentadecathlons, Paper clips and super ponds may count - if you count catalysts in a hassler.

72P119 has a transparent Pentadecathlon,
p36 ...

hotcrystal0 wrote: August 31st, 2025, 10:57 am What’s the longest-lasting pattern with n cells for n=1 to n=7?

1. Dot
2. Domino/Duoplet
3. V spark?
4: Spark that turns to a croquet after 1 generation?
5: R-pentomino
6: R-pentomino related, converges with R-pentomino
7: Acorn

Is this a dot sparker?
x = 39, y = 24, rule = LifeHistory
19.2A$17.D2BAB$17.4B$16.D3B$17.4B$17.2A2B$17.2BA2B$17.5B$16.7B$16.2A3B
2A$16.2A3B2A$16.B5AB$16.2BABA2B$18.3B$18.3A$19.B$3.D4.B2A2B6.B6.2B2AB
4.D$.D3BA3B3AB13.B3A3BA3BD$.4BA5B2ABA9.AB2A5BA4B$A5BA4BA2BA4.B4.A2BA4B
A5BA$2AB.7B2ABA9.AB2A7B.B2A ...

Haycat2009 is my username. Can I be added?

unname4798 wrote: August 27th, 2025, 2:04 pm A: 999 gliders.
Q: There is no question.

A: WIth no question, there is no answer.

Q: Who is the Buddha?

hotcrystal0 wrote: August 11th, 2025, 12:32 pm

jayden678910 wrote: August 11th, 2025, 12:26 pm Q: what is the IP of the Minecraft server

A: cgolminecraftserver.website
Q: Is CGoL an esoteric programming language?

A: Techincally no, as it is very easy to program in.

Q: What do people do in the minecraft server?

I believe redstone computer and the like are trivial to anyone here.

On the other hoof, my battling skills are as bad as my chess play.

I often play a superflat world with the time always being night, and give myself diamond swords and diamond helmets and the like to me. I did pretty bad in it ...

A: He discovered the Transform- oh wait it is a god, because of it, CGOL is 2D, gliders don't pass through, and Life is omniperiodic. Yes, Colin Theri actually discovered the TransformER to more people. He did discover something, and that's the "secret moderator camelship".
Q: What is YROC ...

Q: What is the highest order replicator?


A: Unknown, as most replicators are boxed in the Whop as soon as they are discovered with no room for Lifenthusiasts to study them.
Q: Which Transformed is a CA enthusiast?


A: A TransformER - as in the ones that increase voltage and decrease current ...

Could two orthogonal spaceships support a glider bouncing back and forth infinitely between them?

Depending on your definition of "spaceship" and "bounce", sure. Here's a candidate from 8 June 1998, by David Bell:

x = 747, y = 150, rule = B3/S23
34bo5bo665bo5bo$33b3o3b3o663b3o3b3o ...

A: Unsurprisingly, the boat is the only still life capable of that catalysis.

A: What is the largest pattern in Life?

[s]since two answers were provided, im going to provide a question[/s]
A: the largest pattern in life is the Y-R-O-C converter, which converts Y pentominoes to C pentominoes ...

The anti-bot CAPTCHA was around since before I got here in 2020; I believe it was 2016. Some of them are very clearly not spambot creators, such as referencing the roleplay threads or accurately indicating "duplicate RLE in post [number]".


I meant the CAPTCHA that got added recently to the ...

The anti-bot CAPTCHA was around since before I got here in 2020; I believe it was 2016. Some of them are very clearly not spambot creators, such as referencing the roleplay threads or accurately indicating "duplicate RLE in post [number]".


I meant the CAPTCHA that got added recently to the ...

I'm thinking it's two different people, but it isn't entirely clear yet. They've come to the rather odd conclusion that it's worthwhile to add obscure complaints about how conwaylife.com is being run, in the form of maximum-length usernames, mixed in with vaguely threatening "Shame and death to ...