Conway speculated there is a Life pattern he called a glider gun,
a pattern that would generate a glider every few generations. Unimpeded, a glider
gun could generate a collection of live cells that would grow forever at a constant rate.
William Gosper, Robert April, Michael Beeler, Richard Howell, Rich Schroeppel, and
Michael Speciner, graduate students at MIT, found a glider gun pattern.