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rutabaga wrote: December 15th, 2023, 12:09 pm
Q: where do gliders come from
A: Gliders come from a certain collision between another glider and a LWSS:

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6bo$7b2o$6b2o8$2b2o$2ob2o$4o$b2o!
Q: How do you eat a spider?
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A: engineered using geminis
Q: fastest oblique spaceship
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A: boat
Q: which spaceship speed is not currently known?
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C28 wrote: December 15th, 2023, 7:57 pm Q: which spaceship speed is not currently known?
The only known spaceship whose speed is still unknown is the copperhead.

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A: 1969
Q: first gun
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A: Colt M1911
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A: He's not a real person, let alone a person on the forums.
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A: There are exactly 24 of them, one with every period below 25. They're named after Greek letters.
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A: the largest spaceship in Life
Q: what's camelship?
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a: my butt
q: period of caterpillar
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A: 4
Q: longest spaceship
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b-engine wrote: December 16th, 2023, 6:08 am A: 4
Q: longest spaceship
A: Spaceships are impossible in Life as no pattern can escape their bounding diamond

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A: He's imaginary. He doesn't life at anywhere.
Q: SKOP 2^36
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b-engine wrote: December 16th, 2023, 9:11 am A: He's imaginary. He doesn't life at anywhere.
Q: SKOP 2^36
A: Block, in base 2.

Q:First strobing rule

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3bo$o6b4obo$o2bo7bo$3o12bobo$18bo$14bo3bo$14bo3bo$18bo$9bo5bo2bo$8b3o
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A: Life
Q: first computer in CA
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b-engine wrote: December 16th, 2023, 7:34 pm A: Life
Q: first computer in CA
A: 0E0P metacell

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A: Like meat
Q: What does 0E0P look like?
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A: like a metacell

Q:What do cells taste like?

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3bo$o6b4obo$o2bo7bo$3o12bobo$18bo$14bo3bo$14bo3bo$18bo$9bo5bo2bo$8b3o
5b3o2$10bo$2bobo4b2o$5bo2b3o$5bo2b3o$2bo2bo2b2obo$3b3o3b3o$10bo!
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A: like cells
Q: color of cells
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b-engine wrote: December 17th, 2023, 1:33 am A: like cells
Q: color of cells
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Q: about confocaloid’s answer to my question:
H. H. P. M. P. Cole wrote: December 15th, 2023, 8:51 pm Q: how many 4-cell objects in Factorio, and what are their names and periods
confocaloid wrote: December 15th, 2023, 8:55 pm A: There are exactly 24 of them, one with every period below 25. They're named after Greek letters.
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b-engine wrote: December 16th, 2023, 11:04 pm Q: What does 0E0P look like?
eRroR_6o6 wrote: December 17th, 2023, 12:46 am A: like a metacell
eRroR_6o6 wrote: December 17th, 2023, 12:46 am Q:What do cells taste like?
b-engine wrote: December 17th, 2023, 1:33 am A: like cells
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how many cells does a blinker have?
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haaaaaands wrote: December 24th, 2023, 6:04 am how many cells does a blinker have?
A: none, blinkers aren't real
Q: smallest knightship
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A: HBK
Q: First explicitly constructed replicator
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