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Vanishing line on Conway's game of life

If the initial position of Conway's game of life is a line of $n \le 100$ cells, then it vanishes completely after some steps iff $n \in \{0,1,2,6,14,15,18,19,23,24 \}$. See below for $n=24$.
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Question: Can we prove that such a vanishing is no more possible for $n>24$?

Sebastien Palcoux
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