. This came about via a script, which could be optimized, but it also happens when I try to do it through the interface, and I'm not sure what the issue is. I could probably try something to fix the rulestring, but I still want to know what's going on.
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The only decision I made was made
of flowers, to jump universes to one of springtime in
a land of former winter, where no invisible walls stood,
or could stand for more than a few hours at most...
Not unique to Mac. Crashes when I try it on Windows.
There is life on Mars. We put it there with not-completely-sterilized rovers.
And, for that matter, the Moon, Jupiter, Titan, and 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
Golly 2.9b1 doesn't crash -- just reports the rule as unknown (which it is -- you definitely need to fix the script that is creating it). Download links for 2.9b1 are here: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2554
The rule is valid it's just too long. Golly has a maximum rule length of 200 characters and the rule as specified is 267 characters long. It would certainly be worth taking Andrew's advice and optimizing the script that created it to remove all of the duplication.
For reference the canonical form of the rule is only 65 characters long:
B012-ak3-jnqr4ceiqrtw5-jnqr6-a78/S012-ak3-jnqr4ceiqrtw5-jnqr6-a78
