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I think i have discovered a new category , it moves forward ,it moves forward reverses it's direction leaving behind beehive ,when it does that 2 times , it crashes into previously left behind one ,if i use glider gun to destroy those beehives , i believe it keeps on going like that without crashing , i haven't tried that though

Queen bee

A challenge for you: without searching, could you make a mechanism that destroys these beehives without destroying the spaceship itself?

I'm new to this ,and i need to find it's matching period glider gun , Anyways , is this been invented before ?

It's actually the mechanism inside the glider gun

What's the name of that glider gun. So i guess it's no new invention then , useless

Gosper glider gun

rahul25 wrote:What's the name of that glider gun. So i guess it's no new invention then , useless

It's not "useless". The queen bee has been used to make many interesting patterns. But it is already known.

rahul25 wrote:I think i have discovered a new category , it moves forward ,it moves forward reverses it's direction leaving behind beehive ,when it does that 2 times , it crashes into previously left behind one ,if i use glider gun to destroy those beehives , i believe it keeps on going like that without crashing , i haven't tried that though

This is a very well-known pattern. You can destroy the beehives to make a shuttle, an oscillator in which has the queen bee "bouncing" back and forth (It looks like that to me). It's certainly not useless; I'm not a Life expert, but I know it has many uses, like the aforementioned Gosper Glider Gun.

Prokaryotic Life wrote:

rahul25 wrote:I think i have discovered a new category , it moves forward ,it moves forward reverses it's direction leaving behind beehive ,when it does that 2 times , it crashes into previously left behind one ,if i use glider gun to destroy those beehives , i believe it keeps on going like that without crashing , i haven't tried that though

This is a very well-known pattern. You can destroy the beehives to make a shuttle, an oscillator in which has the queen bee "bouncing" back and forth (It looks like that to me). It's certainly not useless; I'm not a Life expert, but I know it has many uses, like the aforementioned Gosper Glider Gun.

The queen bee has been recently (i.e. last year) explored as a potential methuselah for Herschel conduits along with the Herschel, B-heptomino, R-pentomino, Pi-heptomino, Century, and block and glider.