Out of boredom I tried a few things with GoL gliders and ships, and found some interesting. So I issue you a challenge.
Using which ever ruleset I issue you, make the fastest or slowest spaceship you can. You will be given either GoL, HLIF, 2x2, DANI, AMOE, MOVE, PGOL, DMOE, 34, SEED or MYST. All these rulesets are capable of forming gliders, I've cheked it myself. So no moaning.
The minimum size is 12x8. (upped from 8x8 to give a bit more challenge)
DON'T COPY FROM ANYWHERE :P
Puffers will be disqualified.
All parts must interact with each other, so no putting 2 gliders together and calling it a ship (dikzak) :P
All spaceships must move left to right.
I will race all entries on 30-Jan-11. If you win you get bragging rights :P
a better challenge would be the SLOWEST ship you can make with each rule, as most of the rules have a speed limit of one pixel over two frames, and SEED which goes at 1 pixel per frame.
obviously its going to be hard to come up with something original, but I know there's a lot more than the ones on the wiki... you can eat what you want with it :P