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Inb4 Dash catches a drone
6948121 Didn't think of that, I'll see if I can fit something of that in the story at some point it might be funny.
I thought the cookies were from freeze dried flour, whose main preservative and improoving agent is ascorbic acid, or vitamin c? Still got to watch out for those things.
Suprised the drones have lasted as long as they have over the Everfree, some of those Venus flytraps have Pokemon class vinewhip or similar.
Using the letters that make up the words that are the numerical representations of maths is something that needs looking into for setting things up. the Alphabet is good, but a dictionary, one of all words, maybe XKCDs ten hundred most common words, with dictionaries of grammatical parts, as in a list of verbs, list of nouns, and a short list of the terms that make up grammar, with a selection of increasing complexity of arrangements of verb, noun etc?
If a spacecraft with the production capabilites of these guys isnt capable of creating a music recreation unit of a piece of stiff copper wire in the bottom of a paper cup on a paper tube with tin foil wrapped round it with a rock on a piece of string for driving force, then they need a good slapping.
Of course if he could print out a needle and diaphram disc gramaphone with a snail horn built into the box to avoid the big sticky out bit that would be better. Of course, thats for speech and singing. If you just want music, theres always the music box pins in cylinder driven by clockwork plinking a wedge full of fingers.
Clockwork Music Box
Analog wall clocks have had plastic gears for years, and the first all 3D printed plastic watch was shown recently, 2016, but could only run for an hour and the time keeping was atrocious. then again, given current 3D printer abilities its a very impressive step.
Now which way does Twilight see the flow of time, in which person, sense etc. Base ten numbers are relatively easy, but teh base 12 number words at the beginning might have thrown her a little, and the other values used in time keeping could be confusing unless she realises its for ease of division.
Wouldnt be suprised if the first drone lost would be because it tried to look like a baked product to Derpy, or she scolded it for delivering mail without a licence or employment in the post office.
Yeah I can just see one of those drone attracting the attention of a Pegasus already and try to investigate it with some very funny video results
Now see that right there is exactly why i should not be allowed to make first contact with a new race. it always seems to come down to a math competition in the beginning i just want to slam down some stupidly high level physics formula (probably something about turbulent and lament flow in a big plumbing system) or the equation to describe a irregular shaped 3D object and walk away just to see what the other side will do. i got to image a society capable of space travel has got to have even high forms of math and i kinda wanna see how you think twilight will react to a "Test" she cant pass (probably also why i shouldn't be a teacher....)
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6948158 I also wouldn't doubt one of Fluttershy's animal friends spotting the one by her place and telling her about it
6948470 Well the drones are flying over the trees so I think that puts them out of range of the usual hostile plants and some animals at least for now. Plus remember that his food is in packets for the most part as they have to last months if not years in case of an emergency. They're kind of like MRE/IMPS or similar to what astronauts use.
As for the music thing the device is going to be a bit more advanced than that but still kind of simple and easy to make as he does have spare electronics for various things like drones and other equipment that can be modified. All the plastic parts can already be costumed built even today with a 3D printer after all.
6948893 Yeah the math for something like warp travel would be insane and even Twilight would get thrown for a loop, then again we don't know how some more advanced spells work. Hell there is a time travel spell in MLP, that has to be insane enough as it so maybe I can have Twilight throw back things like that or how teleportation works.
6949308 fair point but at least at this point David comes off as the chill "B" student rather then twilight's nerotic perfect 100%. On a bit of a side what do you think of NASA's FTL proof of concept prototype or the semi stable wormhole they made?
6949347 I haven't heard of the wormwhole experiment you might have to make a link to where you found that.
6949384 I will see if I can find it but what it boiled down to as I remember was they created basically a pocket/hole that was removed from the normal concept of time that they hoped to use to create a way to communicate with the future via a morises code like system using atoms. Some how they figured out that anything placed in the pocket appeared as if it has always been in it since the pocket was created. So basically it only worked going backward, needed a absolutely stupid amount of power to keep open, and limited to atoms (and the smaller ones at that). Still pretty neat if you ask me. I found the story awhile ago so I wonder if they made any more progress with it.
6949420 That is kind of neat never heard of that one before.
6949438 what I find interesting is what the experiment means for the concept of time and would be interested in your thoughts on it, but I think I will save that post for when I have a full keyboard in front of me and so for now I just have to say good chapter and I hope to see another a lot sooner then this last one. Especially since we seem to be getting into the meat of your story and that it seema that quite a few of your readers want to see how the ponies deal with the drones. Personally I want to see how twilight would react to the drone coming to "steal" her alien communication box.
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great chapter! well worth the wait! well done on this chapter and your fine story.
Well now, this is quite good - I have always been a fan of "first contact" stories (at least the kind where no one is holding an idiot ball that leads to cheap and violent conflict) and yours seems to be set on delivering. I like the humorous and lighthearted tone you set - feels like we are in for a lighthearted and fun story.
I find it especially amusing how the Princesses are up in arms about this new discovery and approaching it with paranoid caution and secrecy (which, to be fair, is their job), while Twilight and co are, meanwhile, gleefully initiating first contact with the alien, with everything going relatively smoothly and the communication problem being hacked away at (props for using Math as means for facilitating early dialog - no matter how you hack it, one thing plus another thing would equal two things in just about any society that's in touch with physical reality).
I can just imagine Celestia getting a migraine when, after all of her careful maneuvering, secrecy, contingencies and plan-making Twilight sends a letter proudly informing her that she has established a rapport with an alien and she's invited to it's "welcome to Ponyvlle" party (I also wonder how long it takes for one of the locals (Rainbow?) to snatch one of the drones, much to Twilight's chagrin ...or excitement - Ponyville's airspace isn't exactly uncontested and traffic-free :P)
All in all - this has been a fun read and I hope to see more of it.
If there is one thing I would make a suggestion on, though - you should probably avoid giving us several paragraphs worth of exposition on the technology that David has available. Things like his warp drive and the holo-computer screens and brain implants to facilitate them - if I'm to be blunt, in a vacuum all of that is generic sci-fi techobabble that your readers have already seen before in a hundred other stories and thus doesn't make for particularly interesting infodump material, other than as quick mentions to establish their existence.
What you should do instead, though, is save the exposition on technology and other futuristic society quirks for when Daving will be explaining some of it to Twilight, or what Twilight will observe and deduct by herself. That's how all of this information can be presented in an interesting and captivating manner - by presenting it through the eyes of ponies (most likely Twilight, as she's the one bound to analyze and dissect it as part of her natural personality), the impression it leaves on them and their reactions to it.
In short, if you want to exposition about technology for any length of time, do so through the eyes of Twilight - that way we can share in her excitement, be amused at her reactions, gleefully follow her perspective and deductions (right or wrong) and generally inject some life in to all of it. I don't find it particularly interesting how his Warp Drive might work (because I have seen it all in dozens of fictional works before) - but Twilight absolutely would, and through her excitement you can infect the audience with it, rather than be presented as a generic wall of sci-fi-ness that I'm tempted to skim in order to get to the 'important' parts (the first contact and the shenanigans, reactions and interactions that come from it) faster.
On another note, would it be right to assume that Arrow 18 serves as a sort of inspiration for this fic?
6952433 Yeah I wanted to play around with this a little as first not everything goes to plan in real life and also wanted something a bit unique instead of the paint by numbers type of deal or like you said idiots causing a shooting war.
I wanted to show the various types of reactions, for the Princesses their duty is to protect their people, yeah they hope for peace but are planning for the worst just in case. You can bet that Celestia will get a letter from Twilight that will throw a monkey wrench into her well thought out plans.
I'm trying to find a balance to help build a basis for the world building as sometimes when people add in things later it can look like it was pulled out of the ass at the 11th hour. I only really wanted to do that in the first few chapters to help give an idea of what they will be dealing with. Little things here and there like the colonies and culture and stuff in the latest chapter to help slowly build things up a bit. Plus sometimes I'm trying to give enough visual information so people can get a decent idea of what things look like.
Some people might not get it but others like you said would and the trouble is trying to find the balance for all of that. I am going to slowly build up as you've seen unlike the first two chapters I don't go into as much detail into the background. I will have Twilight be the one who asks most of the questions later on in the story.
I'm pretty sure actual classical music, like Beethoven, Vivaldi, and stuff, would still be relevant if music in any way continues. Considering it IS the base of music.
You mentioned somewhere that AVI is a quantum computer, do realize how fast these are? Instantaneously fast. There is no 'time to completion' with quantum computers.
Oh God, "new" Metallica? Well, at least you picked one of the few decent songs they did after they turned to crap.
"Fade to Black" is still one of the greatest songs ever crafted by mortal hands.
After seeing Star Trek Beyond call the Beastie Boys "classical music", seeing the use of 20th and 21st century rock in this story makes me chuckle. Love the references
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"The alien went to Ponyville. Of course the alien went to Ponyville. Why am I even surprised by this? The place is a disaster magnet."
CRIMINAL OFFENSE. Fucking criminal.
If you're going to be quoting songs - over the Internet, no less - get the damn lyrics right. Seriously, they're one Google search away - Google even displays them outright. Dude!