Semiperfect Orthogonal Speeds in Life-like CA

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Re: Semiperfect Orthogonal Speeds in Life-like CA

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It's not a spaceship, because it can't exist without being supported by the other copies of itself on a torus. If you were going to call that a spaceship, then infinite lightspeed waves in CGoL would also be spaceships! A spaceship needs to be able to exist in free space, which yours cannot.
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Re: Semiperfect Orthogonal Speeds in Life-like CA

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77topaz wrote:It's not a spaceship, because it can't exist without being supported by the other copies of itself on a torus. If you were going to call that a spaceship, then infinite lightspeed waves in CGoL would also be spaceships! A spaceship needs to be able to exist in free space, which yours cannot.
Ah. I give up searching for spaceships then.
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