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       2023-01-14T00:20:06Z
       
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       The walrus, a new and surprisingly small c/8 diagonal spaceship in Conway's Game of Life: https://conwaylife.com/wiki/WalrusAlso included: a walrus eater and a stable walrus-to-glider converterThis discovery highlights the power of modern cellular automaton pattern search codes, which integrate SAT solvers to provide deeper lookahead and quickly detect and prune sterile search branches, compared to the hardcoded limited-depth lookahead of previous software. See https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Ikpx for more.