User blog comment:Wythagoras/Conway's game of life/@comment-27014275-20151012075717/@comment-27014275-20151013060624

Back in 2013, I had a burning interest in cellular automata, CGoL in particular, and studied the subject a lot. I had found quite a few structures that seem to never settle, yet after 20,000-50,000 generations, they usually do. Their complexity demands n to be larger than 500 in most cases (SS(500)=100,000 at most), therefore I can't see how SS(n) would be VERY fast-growing.