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A New Glider Found For Conway's Game of Life

Posted by timothy on from the also-a-new-number-between-11-and-12 dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Conway's Game of Life is now forty two years old, but it continues to inspire as well as being the basis of an actively researched field, with computer scientists now announcing they have found a new form of the famous 'glider' pattern (once suggested by Eric S Raymond as the insignia of computer hackers) that runs over a so-called Penrose universe."

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  1. Life enthusiast by Apocryphon · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Life enthusiast Adam Goucher has discovered ...."

    About time! I've always found the terms pro-life and pro-choice too politicized and constraining.... I'm a life enthusiast!

  2. Inspiration by David89 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stuff like this toinspires me everyday

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  3. Re:not life as we know it by Thud457 · · Score: 4, Funny

    not life as we know it

    I'm a doctor, not a tile layer, Jim!

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