#N Gosper glider gun #O Bill Gosper, 1970 #C The pattern that won Conway's $50 prize. Bill Gosper's team at MIT found it in November 1970, proving that a Life population can grow without limit - and, by extension, that Life can compute anything a computer can. It fires one glider every 30 generations, forever. #C Exported from Lifeform x = 36, y = 9, rule = B3/S23 24bo$22bobo$12b2o6b2o12b2o$11bo3bo4b2o12b2o$2o8bo5bo3b2o$2o8bo3bob2o4bobo$10bo5bo7bo$11bo3bo$12b2o!