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It’s also a relatively sparse line, as the number of live cells is less than a hundredth of the line’s extent: https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Unidimensional_spaceship_1
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I'm barely able to follow, but this part was fun:
> The third and fourth arms are extreme compression construction arms "ecca", where a programming language interpreter is created and individual incoming letters are interpreted as instructions specifying which phase (mod 2) and line of glider to emit.
How many steps is the period? How far does it travel in that period? What direction does it go? Does it clean up after itself?
Only about 1.5% of the human genome is protein coding. The human genome is about 3 billion base pairs long.
> Work started in 2016 and was completed on December 1, 2025.
Almost 10 years of development.