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What I get from an X of size $(11119\cdot2+1)^2$ at just around the point where information travels to the tips.
Even from Xs ten times as long, there is Methuselah-like ebbing and flowing of debris near the center amid a pool of still lifes and blinkers still thousands of generations on.
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Just going from experience working on the Busy Beaver of 5, I would imagine this question might be enormously difficult to settle, owing to the globally fractal and locally random nature of the picture.