[yesenadam]

This is a very fine piece of writing, communicating the excitement well! I could almost forget I didn't understand all the details. Which is the goal of popular science/maths writing, I guess - to communicate what something looks and feels like at the coal-face to people who don't know all the details, sufficiently that they can share and appreciate the excitement. And bewilderment - How the hell does that super-complicated epic construction come out of 15 gliders?!

I have read quite a bit about GoL before over the years, programmed and experimented with it and many variants etc But never tried to build a.. well, it's high level programming in GoL isn't it, or like building UNIX tools in GoL and doing cool things with complex combinations of them. I had my mouth open in amazement reading it. Bunch of maniacs. This is an extreme sport. Thank you!