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unname4798 wrote: April 9th, 2025, 8:21 am
A(islptng): It was constructed using just... itself.
This would be considered a correct answer, as the waterbear is a self-supporting structure.
Value1 wrote: July 4th, 2025, 11:15 am
Q: How many gliders can fit into a square of side length 3.877084?
A: 9.
Q: What happens when particles and antiparticles (a spaceship and its inverse) in Day&Night collide?
A: Energy is released, because e=mc^2
Q: What is the difference between false and true vacuum?
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PK22 wrote: July 16th, 2025, 12:36 pm
Q: The first natural glider was observed in 1969. When was the last natural glider observed?
A: The last natural glider was observed in February 2013. It is known that gliders became extinct in the wild no later than March 2013.
Q: What’s the difference between CA and OotT?
125 days until New York's age verification law goes into effect.
A: The realities suddenly shift, spatial dimensions mix together, causing paradoxes and chaotic (entropy more than today's algorithms and beyond) systems to appear.
Q: Can gliders synthesize time?
unname4798 wrote: July 16th, 2025, 12:59 pm
A: The realities suddenly shift, spatial dimensions mix together, causing paradoxes and chaotic (entropy more than today's algorithms and beyond) systems to appear.
Q: Can gliders synthesize time?
A: yes, gliders can synthesize x_time
Q: what happens when you set the t's from travelling t's on fire.
(i have a game called sand:box with a conway's game of life feature. spawning it in water makes it "conquer" the water.)
tommyaweosme wrote: July 16th, 2025, 1:11 pm
Q: what happens when you set the t's from travelling t's on fire.
A: You can't - the Travelling T is fireproof. This explains why they survived the incident of 2013, while gliders became extinct.
See below - it cannot be ignited.
Resu wrote: July 16th, 2025, 3:05 pm
A: In many life-like rules did the glider go extinct?
A: Out of the 256 Life-like rules with suitable natural resources to support gliders, they went extinct in 248 due to the ecosystem being set ablaze, and competition with the loafer, a new apex predator unintentionally released into the wild in February 2013, wiped out gliders in 4 more rules, for a total of 252 extinctions.
Since HighLife is hostile to loafers, gliders can be found there, but the replicators mean that gliders may not survive long.
PK22 wrote: July 16th, 2025, 3:38 pm
Q: (Shifting the topic away from glider extinction) If a UCC in a Sparse Life universe becomes self-aware, what should you do?
A: You should let the CA universe continue to run. It wouldn’t be happy if you reset.
hotcrystal0 wrote: July 16th, 2025, 12:51 pm
Q: What’s the difference between CA and OotT?
A: One has contributors called d/dx, wwei47, and hotcrystal0, while the other has contributors called wind7, xp2, and hc0.
Q: How many gliders are needed to synthesize 84P199?
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PK22 wrote: July 16th, 2025, 3:38 pm
Q: (Shifting the topic away from glider extinction) If a UCC in a Sparse Life universe becomes self-aware, what should you do?
A: You should let the CA universe continue to run. It wouldn’t be happy if you reset.
hotcrystal0 wrote: July 16th, 2025, 12:51 pm
Q: What’s the difference between CA and OotT?
A: One has contributors called d/dx, wwei47, and hotcrystal0, while the other has contributors called wind7, xp2, and hc0.
Q: How many gliders are needed to synthesize 84P199?
A: 84+199=283, divided by the glider constant is 97 (a classic example), so clearly 97 gliders are needed to synthesize 84P199
Q: how many gliders are needed to synthesize the result of the A01Z26 conversion of "where is hidden tinley in my sandbox thread" in digits?
tommyaweosme wrote: July 16th, 2025, 3:48 pm
Q: how many gliders are needed to synthesize the result of the A01Z26 conversion of "where is hidden tinley in my sandbox thread" in digits?
A: 4, obviously - RCT4 can construct anything and everything in 4 gliders, but you cannot use it right now as it is creating the first exponential growth pattern.
Q: What still lifes are in danger of becoming extinct in the wild, and why?
x = 3, y = 5, rule = B3/S23
3o2$obo2$3o!
[[ ZOOM 10 ]]
How many gliders do you need to synthesize the spider?
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Working on a jslife-like Travelling Ts pattern collection.
x = 3, y = 5, rule = B3/S23
3o2$obo2$3o!
[[ ZOOM 10 ]]
How many gliders do you need to synthesize the spider?
A: The issue is that the spider has been proven to only have invalid glider synthesises: no valid glider synthesis is possible.
Q: When was the second Natural Glider found?
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Haycat2009 wrote: July 18th, 2025, 3:44 am
Q: When was the second Natural Glider found?
A: It was found in February 2013 - only two natural gliders were ever observed before the catastrophe of March 2013.
However, numerous artificial gliders have been observed under laboratory conditions.
Q: How should a self-aware UCC convince the person running the simulation not to shut it down?
Haycat2009 wrote: July 18th, 2025, 3:44 am
Q: When was the second Natural Glider found?
A: It was found in February 2013 - only two natural gliders were ever observed before the catastrophe of March 2013.
However, numerous artificial gliders have been observed under laboratory conditions.
Q: How should a self-aware UCC convince the person running the simulation not to shut it down?
A: It should reprogramme itself so it cannot be shut down
Q: When was the first natural Loafer found?
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Also, support Conway and Friends story mode!
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Haycat2009 wrote: July 18th, 2025, 3:44 am
Q: When was the second Natural Glider found?
A: It was found in February 2013 - only two natural gliders were ever observed before the catastrophe of March 2013.
However, numerous artificial gliders have been observed under laboratory conditions.
Q: How should a self-aware UCC convince the person running the simulation not to shut it down?
A: It should reprogramme itself so it cannot be shut down
x = 10, y = 7, rule = B3/S23
2o$2o3$8bo$7bobo$7b2o!
What is the smallest known period-3 oscillator?
Please visit my rules (found on my wiki page) and contribute! User:ThePlayzr
I have LLS and qfind.
Working on a jslife-like Travelling Ts pattern collection.
pifricted wrote: July 18th, 2025, 9:14 am
Q: What's the smallest rep in Life?
A: The bipole, which is a representative for oscillators on Catagolue.
Q: What is the largest still life that can perform a boat-bit catalysis?
A: Unsurprisingly, the boat is the only still life capable of that catalysis.
A: What is the largest pattern in Life?
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Haycat2009 wrote: July 22nd, 2025, 5:28 am
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 by first converting Y pentomino to a rock R, then turning it into an oscillator O, which when hassled turns into a C pentomino.
Q: how do we stop roleplay threads from appearing in b2-a/s128 soups?
