Goucher found a synthesis for the loafer later that day, allowing the construction of c/7 orthogonal spaceship guns. On FebruJosh Ball discovered a simple c/7 orthogonal spaceship, loafer. These are the first guns that shoot obliquely-traveling spaceships and at the time were the largest patterns constructed in Life, in terms of their bounding boxes. In July, 2010 Dave Greene constructed a few guns for a geminoid spaceship. In March, 2003 Noam Elkies completed the synthesis of 60P5H2V0 which Dave Greene used to construct the first 2c/5 spaceship gun in April of the same year. The first gun that did not fire gliders or c/2 spaceships was a Cordergun (a gun that fires Corderships) constructed by Jason Summers in July, 1999 based on a synthesis of a variation of the 7-engine Cordership by Stephen Silver. Due to simple glider syntheses of the standard spaceships many c/2 spaceship guns are known. Since then, many guns have been constructed with various periods and that fire spaceships of various speeds. The first gun to be discovered, the Gosper glider gun, was found by Bill Gosper in 1970, being the first known pattern in Conway's Game of Life to exhibit infinite growth. 5 Smallest guns by area of bounding box.

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