September 20
Aric was really tired and after we'd had sex he kind of rolled back over and by the time I was out of bed and at the window he was almost asleep again. He'd pulled up the covers and he told me to have a good day and then when I went and got sunflower seeds out of the feeder he didn't throw anything at me again.
I was a little frustrated—Aric seemed kinda distant but he said that everything was okay, and I wasn't sure if he was telling the truth. He might have just been tired, though. He'd told me that he hadn't gotten back to Kalamazoo until early Monday morning, so that might be why.
I flew low back towards campus, and I went by Jeff's house so I could see the birds and my bird feeder. I wondered if some of them ate out of both different feeders but I didn’t think they would—a lot of birds have pretty small territories.
So I circled around and watched them for a bit, and some of the sparrows must have forgotten who I was already and maybe thought I was a hawk or something, 'cause they took off for the trees chirping in alarm when I went overhead. And that was kind of sad.
When I got back to Trowbridge, I landed on the boardwalk and went in the back then got my flight gear together really quietly so I wouldn't bother Peggy. She was really cute; she was lying on her side and had her arms around her pillow and was hugging it.
I wasn't going to fly for too long and I thought about leaving my camelback behind but the one time I did I'd wish I had it, so I filled it up in the bathroom and got the rest of the way dressed then went back outside.
I told the airplane directors that I was going to fly over downtown but stay low, and the grumpy man said that I could, so I got some altitude as I went over the quad, so I was high enough to clear cars and trucks and wires. When I went by Hoben, I waved at Cedric and Leon's room, and then I turned down Academy so that I could fly downtown.
I decided that I was going to do a couple of laps around downtown and race some cars because that was fun. But the cars didn't know that they were playing the game so I had to wait for the signal lights to be red and then had to time it so I would get to them when they turned green, because it would be cheating to get a head start.
I beat a yellow truck that said Ryder but it wasn't much of a contest—the truck wasn't very fast. Then I raced a green Fiesta through the rest of downtown, until it turned towards the 94 Highway after crossing the river, and then I turned around and went back west. I kept pace with a Lexus that was pretty quick. Instead of slowly accelerating from the signal light, he would jump ahead and roar to the next one to get there faster than anyone else, and he made it through one just as it was changing from yellow to red and I couldn't catch him.
I cut across Westnedge Avenue to try again, and I heard a horn honk behind me and it was a blue Dodge Challenger like Peggy's mom had, and when we got to the next traffic light he stuck his head out the window and asked if I was racing and I said that I was, so he waited at the next light until I had caught up.
He made the tires spin and smoke and that actually gave me a bit of an advantage because he wasn't moving anywhere, and I was ahead when I got to the next traffic signal, which was green, but then he passed me and I couldn't catch up.
Then he turned into the parking lot for the Water Street Coffee Shop, and when I landed next to him I was breathing pretty hard from the race, and he said I'd done really well, 'cause I only had one horsepower and he had 375.
When I went back to campus, I didn't race any cars, 'cause I'd tired myself out a little bit. And I was glad that I'd thought to bring the camelback, 'cause I was pretty thirsty, so I sipped at it while I glided.
I landed and went up to our room to get undressed, and Peggy was still sleeping, but she'd rolled over the other way. And I hung my vest over my chair so that it would dry off some, then I went to the shower. I was glad I'd cooled down on the flight back or else I'd have been dripping sweat in our room and the hallway.
I got lucky again and there wasn't anybody in the shower, but maybe that was because it was a little bit earlier than I usually took my shower, and I was just finishing when Ruth came in the bathroom.
Peggy was awake when I came back to our room and she said that she wanted breakfast more than a shower and if we hurried to breakfast and back she hoped that there wouldn't be a line, so even though I was a little damp and un-preened, we went to breakfast and the waffle-maker was working, which was nice.
When we were back at our room after breakfast, Peggy helped me put my mane back, and then I put on my lab coat and strapped my safety glasses over my head and I couldn't fly with the coat on but I didn't know if Lisa would be willing to help me so it was smarter to wear it to class.
It was really weird wearing my saddlebags over it, 'cause the girth strap dug into one of the buttons and pushed it into my belly and I didn't like that but there wasn't any good way to avoid it.
Our lab was lots of fun: we had to heat up and chill closed bottles of gas and record the pressure that was on the gauge, and observe the results. I had to let Lisa do a lot of the work that hooves weren't good for, but I took all the notes and I did what I could. It turned out that I could grab the pressure bottle when it was hotter than she could, because the side of my hooves weren't as sensitive as her hands.
For a bonus, Professor Brown also had a special bottle for each pair which was full of mystery gas, and after we'd gotten practice with the other bottles we got to experiment with that and he had a chart of different gasses that it could be and we were supposed to figure out which one we had by matching it up with different temperatures and pressures that were on the chart, which meant that we had to be pretty precise. But when we were done, both Lisa and I agreed that our mystery bottle had neon in it.
I stopped at the Mail Hut on my way to lunch to see if I'd gotten anything, and I had a letter from my sister, which made me feel kinda guilty, 'cause I hadn't sent her one in a long time, so I put it in my saddlebags with my astronomy books and then I decided that I'd sit with Cedric and Leon and Trevor.
Well, I got to lunch a little earlier than they did, so after I'd gotten my food and sat down at the table I took out the letter and opened it up and started to read it, 'cause I was curious what she had to say.
She told me how things were back in Chonamare, and said that I'd missed the leading end of a hurricane coming through, which had made landfall further south and the ponies down there had set up a counterstorm to push it back out to sea but then it had decided to come back and nopony was ready for it. She said that half the fishing boats had been bashed open on the rocks but luckily everypony had stayed in port so nopony had to be rescued, and the boats got hauled ashore and most of them had been fixed again and were back out in the ocean where they belonged except for a couple of dories which had been smashed to bits.
And said that she'd heard that an Equestrian weather team had been sent to Earth to help fight storms and she wondered if I'd met them. She said that she would have rather had them stay in Equestria where they could be helpful because she was sure that Earth had so much technology that storms weren't an issue, and I snorted when I read that, 'cause I thought about some of the storms I'd flown in.
Then she said that she hoped that I had a good birthday, whether her letter got to me before or after, and said now that I was gone Cloud Climber had the latest birthday and they'd just celebrated down at the pub.
Cedric saw the envelope on the table and I guess it looked kind of funny because the address was in English but the return address was in Equestrian so he asked who it was from and I told him and he said it was nice of her to think of me and write a letter like that.
Leon said that Cedric had all the letters that Aquamarine had sent him in a little box and he admitted that it was true and he'd put an effort into improving his handwriting because she could write better with her mouth than he could with his hands and he thought that was unfair.
I really wanted to know if they'd done more than just write letters to each other but I didn't think he'd tell me if they had, and I wasn't sure that she would, either.
It was funny, 'cause usually Cedric and Leon were pretty jokey but this time he looked kind of serious and Leon didn't say much. So I asked Leon when Cedric went to get more food, and he said that Cedric was his teammate and friend and that they laughed around about things that didn't matter but not the things that really did, and that made a lot of sense to me.
I still hadn't figured out who I wanted to be friends with in Astronomy class, so I sat kind of in the center and watched people as they came in. There was a short girl with long blonde hair that looked friendly and I think she was a freshman because I hadn't seen her before, and there was also a boy who'd taken pictures of me when I was rolling around in the snow last winter and he seemed kind of shy but if he'd taken pictures of me then he must be interested. He liked to sit in the back, though, and I didn't like being that far away from the professor.
Professor Miller went back to talking about planets and their orbits, and she explained how hard it was to find planets that were around other stars despite how easy it seemed in science-fiction, and she showed us a picture of Sirius, which was the brightest star in the human sky, and showed us a little spot next to it and asked everyone if it was a planet, and we thought maybe it was but it was actually another star that was farther away, and that the problem with finding them was that planets were too close to their star to easily find, which was part of the reason why humans hadn't found any earlier. For us, unicorns had used magic and that had been more successful, but only for close stars: we'd had no idea if there were planets at farther stars or not and nopony had figured out how to find them if there were.
Then she showed us how to use scientific notation, which was a way of making big numbers smaller, and instead of the easy formula she'd taught us before she expanded it back out with new variables and that made the equations a lot bulkier. And then she had to explain how significant digits worked because with numbers this big they only had to be reasonably close. And she said that we had to do it without calculators and that made a lot of people upset but I didn't mind. We did that all the time with our weather wheels, especially since our observations weren't all that precise to begin with.
But she had to explain it more, because a lot of the people in the class really didn't quite understand.
Which brought us back to her question about how far away planets were from stars, and it wasn't figured out by distance, but angles instead, and that was really interesting. And it was trigonometry, which was fun, so I was looking forward to that. I wish that we'd had a lab where we could look for planets.
She taught us the small angle formula, and how the angles were measured in radians and not degrees and then she simplified the formula with AUs and parsecs and arc seconds which was useful with really small angles that were used in astronomy. And she showed us how to calculate how close in arc seconds a planet orbiting Sirius would be, and that was the end of the class, and she said it was our last day to not have homework.
When I got back to our room the first thing I did was write a letter to my sister telling her about all the things that I'd done on my last vacation and when I'd finished Peggy asked me about it so I told her how my sister had sent me a letter for my birthday and she wanted to know when that was and I wasn't sure because humans have a different calendar but I figured that it was this Friday and she was mad that I hadn't told her sooner and she said that we had to have a party to celebrate.
I didn't want that because we hadn't had a party for anybody else's birthday and I didn't want everyone to feel like they had to go to the trouble, especially since I wasn't sure it was the exact same date anyway, but she insisted and said that we'd have a party in the lounge because our room wasn't big enough.
So at dinner that was all that anyone wanted to talk about, especially since there hadn't been a special dinner at all. And they were confused about how I didn't know any ponies who had birthdays in the fall or winter, and I said that ponies weren't born then because of the estrus season and then I kind of had to explain how a mare couldn't get pregnant in the late fall or all of winter, at least not where I lived, but further south some ponies stayed fertile longer.
I guess it was weird for them because they could get pregnant whenever they wanted to.
And Sean was kind of embarrassed about the conversation, and so he tried to ignore us and eat his dinner and he said that there were things that men were not supposed to know at all, things that were supposed to be secret, and Christine said that even if he hadn't learned it in health class she had told him pretty much everything about her estrus cycles and he said that he had made an effort to forget them, and then he said that he'd really rather talk about anything else and he would even admit that light sabers were cooler than phasers if only she would change the subject.
She said that she would never let him forget that he had said that, and then said that she thought the Chicago Cubs were going to make the World Series this year and everyone laughed at that except for me because I didn't know who the Chicago Cubs were or what a World Series was.
Sean wanted to go over math homework after dinner, and then Peggy and Christine wanted to plan out what they were going to do for me, so we both left a little bit early and I got my homework and took it to his room and we went through the problems and this time we'd both gotten all the same answers, which was nice. He said that I should have skipped the hard problem and just put something in Equestrian math, but I told him that that wasn't right, and if I skipped problems that were hard I'd never get good at math, and he said that a lot of what we learned in school didn't really have an application in real life, but I thought that he was wrong. Maybe humans had gotten lazy because they had computers to think for them, but when I figured out weather schedules, all I had was tables and formulas and my weather wheel.
We stayed in his room a little bit late because I was sure that Peggy and Christine were still planning, and he asked when I was going to tie a cloud to a tree which was something that I should do, and I said maybe I could do it over the weekend if the weather cooperated.
It was kind of late when I got back to my room, and I still had to write down what I'd learned in the lab today, which I should have done sooner, so I got out all our notes and started working on them. Me and Lisa would have to meet sometime to get final results for our work, and we'd agreed to figure out a time tomorrow after class, but that was no excuse to not do the work before our meeting.
I was still working on it when Peggy came back and she wouldn't tell me what they'd decided just that I'd like it. And I asked if we were going to go skydiving, and she said that wasn't what they'd planned because that would take more than a couple of days to arrange and she wasn't sure who'd want to anyways. I said that Meghan didn't, and Peggy smiled and said that she was an adrenaline junkie and would be happy to skydive with me. So that made me really happy 'cause it was one of the last things on my bucket list.
I spent the rest of the evening with my lab work and writing in my journal and I'd meant to read another book in the Bible but hadn't had time, and when I went to bed it was a little bit later than I would have liked.
gDocs asked if I meant angels instead of angles. I almost took the suggestion.
I hope it is that Aricis just tired and not having another relationship that he sees as more important.
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Same. D:
Or maybe Eric is trying to ease her off so she doesn't get too devastated when she had to leave. Still kinda a dick move, though. =/
I remember James Watt defined the horsepower when he wasn't working on steam engines. ICR the exact definition (& I'm too shiftless & inept to look it up) but I remember most horses have between 0.6 and 0.8 horsepower which is stupid but true.
Silver, when there is obviously something wrong & a guy insists nothing is wrong it means "Yes, there is something wrong but I want to handle it myself". This makes women crazy. What makes guys crazy is that women HAVE TO talk about everything & can't live without it.
Somewhat raunchy joke
Q Why did God give female parts to women?
A Because He knew that if He didn't no man would ever talk to any woman
One thing I remember from my childhood. Before you learn to drive, almost nothing scares you. Once you learn, you see how bad everyone else is & a lot of things upset you that wouldn't have before
Interestingly, AFAIK the new planets have all been found by Hubble. Until recently, comets and asteroids are mostly found by amateurs because the pros didn't want to waste time looking. IDK if that's still true, but it was when I was a kid.
This lab is a good example of why you don't really need much safety equipment for these types of labs. Your not doing anything dangerous where you'd actually need safety gear.
Astrophysics is one of the classes I want to take if I somehow have some free time before I graduate. But that's not likely.
"How's the beach today?"
"Just hunky-dory!"
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gDocs: Confound those rouge angles of Satin! They get me every time.
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Kepler found a whole lot more, at least a thousand now (1,285 as of May 2016).
"There is always the risk of pregnancy, even with contraception."
"Risk? But who wouldn't want to be able to get pregnant all year round?"
The perspective of someone who considers it perfectly normal to have a one night stand at a weather conference with the intention to have a foal. Love it.
If you don't want to know how a woman's body works you have no business sticking a part of your anatomy inside. Especially since that woman in all likelihood doesn't share Silver's views on reproduction.
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I think it might be more the other way around actually, that he's trying to wean himself off her as she's leaving in about 3 months now. Or he's not quite so happy with the Meghan issue as he says he is.
Nice to see the letter from home and that Silver gets a birthday party.
Tell it like it is man *Bro hoof*
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That's possible too.
I don't know how you write this much, man. I just did about 5k in two days and it sucked down most of my evenings. It'd toast me to do that every day.
Dodge driver:I beat a flying horse.
Mates:Go home Sam, youre drunk.
For the sealed cylinders of gas, Im stuck, unless theyre supposed to heat and cool them rapidly so the Adiabatic formula is used, which depends on the value I cant remember the name of but its (PV)^y the y thing, and is about 1.2 for Helium, Neon, Argon etc Monatomic gas, 1.4 for Oxygen, Nitrogen, Diatomic gas, 1.6 for CO2, H2S Triatomic gas, and I cant remember what the hay for water. That things got 72 violations so far and Im sure theres more to find. Or maybe we will know when we have the Theory Of Everything, when we can Predict everything water does wrong.
Given letters are turning up, will there be a box of fresh hot cakes and buns when Silver goes for her party, even if they wernt there when people turned up, specially deli vered?
"You never throw stuff when I steal sunflower seeds! Don't you love me anymore? "
Aw, she probably wishes that pillow was a pony. and maybe so does silver
Seriously, are you trying to make me ship Silver and Peggy? Because it's working.
I don't suppose things have progressed to the point where they have tested their relative dexterity with... different tasks. But who knows? And apparently Silver is curious about it as well.
See above.
A college class going over scientific notation? Most learn that their freshman or sophomore year of highschool.
I guess a refresher course as well a more in-depth explanation of how it's being applied for the purposes of the topic at hand would be appropriate. Come to think of it, I barely remember anything from any of my old math classes aside from the stuff I use regularly.
Of course, having gotten somewhat used to switching between thinking in binary, hex and multiples of 8 for everything, going back to basics might be harder than learning the basics in the first place. Like trying to run with 3 left feet.
It must have sucked to be a kid in the '60s.
Lol I loved that interaction between Silver and the Dodge driver! I figured someone would try to race her.
And also I'm gonna stick with Aric just being tired. I'm sure he doesn't mean anything by it.
You clearly meant "vehicles."
SG:Nothing goes over my head; my reflexes are too quick. I would catch it.
Wow, you must have really rushed this one out. :P
I really do hope that nothing's happening with Aric... I secretly hope he goes back to Equestria with Silver...
That one really throw me off; I'm use to CRS being used as the acronym for the french anti-riot force. So for a moment I was like "How cute, he is racing with the police. Wait! There's a riot in Kalamazoo? Why didn't she mention it earlier? Wait! It's the french police, it doesn't make sense. Oh... it's just a typo... Ok then."
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Better to get into the habit of wearing the safety equipment when you don't need so you don't forget it when you do (or worse, when a safe lab becomes a very unsafe lab very unexpectedly)
Sliver really needs to get the ATC people something nice for Christmas/Hearths Warming. She's probably talked to them more often then some of her friends at school.
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It wouldn't really help. At those velocities, anything large enough to potentially damage the engine if it gets sucked in, is also large enough to punch through the screen -- or worse, if you made the screen strong enough to withstand the impact, then now the offending object (bird, whatever) is stuck against the screen by the air pressure in front and the vacuum created by the turbines behind, which potentially blocks and disrupts the airflow going into the engine. So, at best, you'd just be trading one set of problems for another.
7743571 welcome to russian jet engines 101:
did you know that the russians had screens that go in front of their fighterjet air intakes, to prefent dirt from being sucked in during takeoff ?
instead a series of little slits on the upper side of the intake open to provide the engine with a flow of fresh air.
Speaking about Equine Mathematics, ¿why not make the ponies enlightened enough to use the 1 True CircleConstant τ (Tau)?:
τ = c / r ≈ 6.28318530717959
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Corrections all made; thank you!
The first section was hand-written. I'm a fast typer, but not a particularly accurate one, and when I'm looking at the screen while I type it's trivial to correct mistakes as they happen; when I'm reading off a notepad some of them slip by and google's spellcheck failed me. (I think it's because I have a lousy internet connection and sometimes when there are a lot of typos it gets confused and doesn't show them all.)
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Maybe it's not him, but her. . . .
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That's like the dickest of the dick moves. The "It's for your own good," which basically means "I'm the asshole."
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That sounds about right. I think some draft breeds have like 1.4 on average. But that's one of those things that seems more difficult to find on the internet than it ought to be.
Silver Glow, still trying to figure out human emotions. Curse us for not having movable ears and tails we can flick when we're agitated.
It's true! Everyone on the road is a maniac! Me included, to be honest. It's funny, when I was in college like most young men I assumed I was invincible, and what finally shook me out of it before anything bad happened was that I was cruising down a dirt road outside of Kalamazoo, going way too fast around curves and using both lanes, and after a little while I started to think about what might happen if I met me coming the other way. That didn't totally cure my bad habits, but it certainly made me start to have second thoughts before doing something dumb.
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And I'm sure that number keeps going up, probably almost daily. How many of them do you reckon have some form of life on them?
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What I'm learning so far is that a lot of stuff is just back-of-the envelope approximations. In one of the lectures, the professor said that the cube root of 100 is 5, and that pi over 3 equals 1.
What I'm also learning is that there is a huge number of good lectures available on YouTube in a diverse range of subjects.
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I know, right? Its spellchecker is pretty decent, but every now and then I wonder at the suggestions it makes.
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And both Peggy and Christine (and probably every other girl on campus) dearly wish that they had a several month break with no periods and no chance of becoming pregnant.
Well, there's knowing and then there's being told on a minute-by-minute basis. Although I suppose a proper gentleman ought to at least know for his special someperson. (But I remember sometimes in college, when everybody got to know whether they wanted to or not, usually at the dinner table.)
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Good guess.
Birthday parties are the best, and I was alway jealous that I never got any in school 'cause I was a summer baby.
A real man knows when to mercilessly harass his friend, and when to back him up.
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Sometimes it's tough, especially since I also have to do research for each chapter. I don't know how I've held it together for this long, either, but it has significantly improved my writing speed, I'll tell you that. Doubled it, easily.
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That's the kind of story that you have to tell at a bar, even knowing that nobody will believe you.
Yup, that's the basic idea. And the gasses that he chose are far enough apart that minor mistakes in measurement will still get you the right answer. Major mistakes won't, of course.
I think Pinkie Pie mostly limits her reach to Ponyvillians. So Aquamarine may very well have woken up on her birthday with a mysterious box of cupcakes next to her bed.
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"You never throw stuff when I steal sunflower seeds! Don't you love me anymore? "
There's a Neil Diamond song called You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore; the Silver Glow version would be You Don't Throw Things At Me Anymore.
maybe. . . .
I'm not telling.
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It's not a bad idea if it's something that you're not used to using. And I think that these days with calculators, kids might be even less used to it, because you can get a ten or twelve or thirty digit long answer.
It's funny; I played in band for so long that I got in the habit of counting in fours, since nearly everything in Western music is some multiple of four.
Also ponified Tom Lehrer.
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If more people looked up while they were driving, she'd have had more takers, too.
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It's funny how the acronyms you're used to will mess you up when you find them in the wrong place. I can't remember what now, but there's one like that that always catches me out, and I'm like "what's that doing in . . . oh, wait, switch modes of thinking."
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Yeah, that's the thing about safety equipment. If you're not used to using it, by the time you think you need it it's too late for it to do you any good.
She should!
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Yeah, that's kind of what I figured. Plus, the screen could work loose and get sucked in.
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Huh, I did not know that. Interesting. So either the Russians figured that it was worth it to protect the engines, or they didn't think the potential consequences all the way through.
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Correction made; thank you!
It would be even funnier if you had written this chapter before the World Series.
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Sadly, as amazing as I am, I'm not that amazing. I didn't even know they were playing in the World Series until they were one game shy of winning.
I feel a bit bad during Silver's school parts cuz I understand almost nothing of what she talks about.
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That's alright; I've already forgotten most of the thermodynamics and multivariable calculus I had to learn to write it.
The more I read about Peggy the more I felt she's an Earth counterpart to Pinkie Pie.
Now I'm sure of it!
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=lyrics+shut+down&&view=detail&mid=8BAD988ED377AB8E389B8BAD988ED377AB8E389B&&FORM=VRDGAR
For non gearheads: old time slang
Street racers used to have tachometers to help time gear shifts. "tach it up" refers to revving up your engines
"shut you down" Loser in a street race shut his engine off first as a sign that he was beaten. Like tipping over your king in chess.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=lyrics+the+jogger&&view=detail&mid=0B609C8E15E2529A0A560B609C8E15E2529A0A56&&FORM=VRDGAR
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See more points for Celestia as the better deity. She IS a pony first, ruler/demigoddess second. You can understand exactly how her mind works, to an extent. She's got far more experience and knowledge then any other pony, and her thoughts are likely able to be far more complex, but the basic drives are still the same. Also there's at least a good 40% of her thought processes devoted just to cake. How can you not love a Deity like that?
Given this is MLP..... that comes off rather.. odd. Since back in Gen 1, there was a group of Nazi Penguins.
Ummm, wha? How does... that doesn't..... what?
Ponies do seem hard to offend, outside of the snooty ones at least. And you just KNOW Twilight went out for Nightmare Night as Princess Celestia at least once. They'd likely either enjoy the idea, or just shrug and write it off as humans being silly.
There is also the Schlock Mercenary version
MAXIM 21: Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Take his fish away and tell him he's lucky just to be alive, and he'll figure out how to catch another one for you to take tomorrow.
Activate Pony Uber-Libido! She can be just fine without sex, but moment the chance for it pops up, she is THERE!
Stupid responsibilities and physical fitness keeping them from just spending all day screwing each others brains out.
Well, oatmeal is a serviceable breakfast, I'd not call it 'good'.
D'aaawwwww pega cloud perch, behold the Silver Glow as she surveys her domain!
Also, poetic pony is very poetic.
Yeah, not many other girls would mind opening up the shower door while naked.
Ad now lonely pone is lonely.
Silver, wording.... tree crotch.... I'm sure Aquamarine would like to see that tree.
Oops, though if you are going to have a random knock on the door from a wrong room, at least finding a pony on the other side is a good reward.
Dumb mistake, forget to count in base-10?
Yeah, given what a math nerd he is, he'll want to know all about Pony Math,
And Silver, everyone misses having Pony around when they no have Pony around.
I'm sure art appreciation would go up if art ad more ponies in it. Or the art teachers would get their heads out of their asses, along with the English Lit teachers.
Yes people aren't like pets, but Pony needs a minimum number of friends around at all times.
Also, Christine is a potential evil overlord, but really it can't be hard to get people over to your table, just advertise an opening to eat with Pony.
That, is some stubborn hair dye mess. Still, I'm sure the janitor has cleaned worse. At least this doesn't count as a bio-hazard.
Also, that just, yeah had to do that before. Not hair dye, but had to pretty much scrub a bathroom with nail polish remover. Some asshole little kid grabbed a handful of nail polish off the display, went to the bathroom, and proceeded to toss it all around.
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I usually don't bother with gear since nothing at work is really that dangerous, but finally just flat out told them I was never touching the ceiling tiles again till they supplied me with safety googles, cause can never put a panel in without some of it flaking into my eyes.
Guys on ship just switched to chewing tobacco for watch. Then ended up leaving dip spit bottles all over the damn place.
And yet a TI graphic calculator still costs about $150 and has the same small, green and black screen as always.
No don't think people would like to smoke under a bird feeder, and birds wouldn't like all the smoke and people around.
Well, guess Dinosuars are close enough to monsters. Ohhhhh, get Silver to see a Megalodon!
Sneaky sneaky trees, they are out to get ya. Just ask a Dwarf.
What is she doing Aric? Being adorable.
Better to be tired cause you were up all night fucking then studying, she does have her priorities straight.
I'd say she's at about, 1.5 Twilight's on the 'freak out' scale right now about the lab coat.
Awww so sweet, just, eager to share what she's learned, even with those that really don't care but are just being polite.
Also, Sean is very smart, and he knows he needs to bring further the apology sweets if he doesn't want to start emulating a Vulcan and only getting laid every seven years.
And yeah, the teacher is a bigger math nerd then Silver.
Also, no Sean no easy mooching off Pony Power, if you want some of that, get videos of her being awesome/adorable up on YouTube like everyone else.
Sneaky pony knowing how to be sneaky about not getting her answer right, but being too honest to do it.
All Ponies love Taco Tuesday. She really needs to try a Fish Taco.
And yes, Pony happiness trumps all else, if pony happy, all can be happy.
Doesn't mean he can't troll the pony a bit.
And I am not surprised at there already being pony lab googles, given how many places wish to DO SCIENCE! to Ponies.
Who wouldn't like having a driving pony on their lap?
See he just said a bucket, he didn't say anything about a spray bottle of water.
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I'm fine, only been in one, very minor accident. Rear ended a guy at a stoplight because I didn't quite fully break fast enough due to being busy looking at a map and trying to figure out where the fuck I was. But by that point I was moving so slow, barely did anything. Also helped he was in a big ass pickup truck and I was in a Geo Metro. Just scratched my hood a bit.
And at the opening, getting a very very strong, even compared to all else, vibe of it really just being a quick fuck between them. Though quickly shifted to "Oh great, drama time" vibe. Aric, it's supposed to be the girl that does the 'It's nothing when it's really something' bit. Also, I find it interesting how it's her relationship with a dude, not a chick that has all the drama going on.
Peggy should replace that pillow with a pony. Replace ALL Pillows with Ponies!
Silly car racing pony.
Weirdest race ever, but had to be really damn fun.
But how does 1 Pony Power compare to 1 Horsepower?
Science Pony is ready to do the science! Time to blow something up. (Fun bit, spent the last day binging this fun 'science' channel, started a dude just doing random things to see what happens, at this point, it's gotten into one of three themes for all the experiments. "What does X do when applied to/mixed with Dry Ice. What happens to X when it's put in a vacuum chamber. What happens to X when you pour molten salt on it.")
Ah so the vial had unicorn farts in it?
And Silver sees a major reason for the exchange program, to understand these things and not rely on just random 'common knowledge' or guessing.
Well, it's not just she writes better, ponies are just plain better. But they also do want to help us want to be better too.
And again, bro code, you know what topics to NOT fuck around with, and what ones to never stop ragging on them about.
And just, such a pony moment, her walking into class trying to pick who she's going to make friends with.
Unicorns are Hax Silver, it's okay, we all know it.
Obligatory, NEEEEEEEERRRRRRDDD!!!!
Ys you should have told them about your birthday! At least Aquamarine would have the excuse of never having to think about it, since Pinkie handled everything.
Yeah, human reproduction is weird compared to pony, and vice versa. Still better then Trolls.
Gotta be honest, I'm a much bigger Trekkie then Star Trek... even if I stopped really caring about the franchise around Enterprise and nothing since has been good enough to get me back, especially not STD, but, it's no where near as horrible as TLJ was... but yeah, lightsabers ARE cooler then Phasers.
And yes, people do get lazy, it's why we build machines to do all this for us, so we CAN be lazy!
YAY! Jumping out of airplane buddy!
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Well, yeah, Celestia is a bit more relatable than God, probably. Not sure how God feels about cake; but we do know that Jesus hates Figs (well, one fig tree, anyway).
I did not know that.
Not surprised, honestly; penguins can’t be trusted.
Send her to the moon is kinda harsh, IMHO. Of course, arguably, the Elements did that . . . also maybe my own headcanon’s bleeding through here. . . .
Probably because they don’t know they should be offended by someone putting on a horse mask.
No way Twilight would do that. It’s disrespectful.
Pinkie Pie, on the other hand:
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Bah, I like my version better. Get me the matches.
Sex is like pizza, or something (I wonder what the pony version of that is? Sex is like hay fries?)
I’ve heard sex is an okay workout (possibly good; I suppose it depends on how you do it).
#ponyperks
“All I can see belongs to me, Princess of the Sky.”
Somebody commented way back when (I think it was FoME) that Silver Glow was often poetic even when she wasn’t trying to be. I think that kind of goes with being a pony.
At least she’s got a tree to sit in and a Bible to read (and let’s be honest, how many people have read the Bible while sitting in a tree?)
That’s what it’s called Not Silver’s fault that English has innuendos built right into it.
Agreed!
That’s a good possibility.
He’s based off one of the presenters in Numberphile, and given how enthusiastic all of them are about math, yeah, they’d want to know everything there is to know about pony math. He’d probably give Silver Glow an extra A if she got him an Equestrian math textbook.
Life without a pony on campus is no life at all.
As I’ve aged, I have come to the realization that things like English Lit and art (to an extent) are only properly appreciated by people with their heads up their asses. It’s like when you’re at a wine tasting, and you can’t actually drink the wine, you just take a little sip, swish it around, and then spit it back out.
Horses love their herds. Whatever they might be.
(true story, horses will herd with cows)
Christine is an evil overlord. Well, maybe not evil. She and Discord would actually get along quite well, for the lulz.
I don’t know about hair dye--my hair cannot be dyed, apparently--but I do know about Faygo Red Pop, which makes stains that cannot be removed by industrial cleaners.
The nice thing about working in the automotive field is that I’ve never had to do that kind of thing.
My old glasses had a gouge across the lens where a tire buffing wheel exploded and came at my face. Not to mention all sorts of chemical damage (brake cleaner and carb cleaner aren’t good for plastics [or eyeballs, for that matter]).
Bastards. Ought to have brought the bottles back to their bunks.
I wouldn’t know; I’m sure there’s an app for my phone that can do that (assuming that I needed to do that kind of math).
If Silver Glow’s enough of a bird whisperer, she could probably get them to poop on smokers.
Megalodon? What about a magical Liopleurodon?
Back when I drove wrecker, any number of people would claim that a tree had jumped out in front of them.
#ponyproblems
Probably a bit less than that. She hasn’t started writing checklists yet.
Who doesn’t want to know what a pony knows? Even if it’s math and science? I know I’d listen.
I’m sure that Christine would get bored before that. I’m also sure that Christine would probably make him wear the French Maid outfit.
Of course he is.
That’s probably the easiest way. I bet if he filmed her doing math, people would watch it.
She does have a good point; you don’t learn by cheating.
You mean Meghan? <going to hell for that>
It’s very true.
Plus, we’ve seen them in canon, so they’re probably exported to Earth.
<nobody raises their hand>
Chasing a pony around with a spray bottle of water would be hilarious. Also mean, but mostly hilarious.
Until she retaliates with a stormcloud, of course.
I was the one that got rear-ended in an accident like that. The little import car was not so happy; my truck was fine.
Unicorns are the ones that do drama in Equestria, I bet. But yeah, there’s more drama with her and Aric than with her and Meghan, no question.
Yes, I approve of this.
I’d race a pony if I had a chance. I’d win in a car (most likely) and lose in a foot race, badly.
That’s actually a tough question. Draft horses IRL are more than one horsepower (I think up to about 15, IIRC). There’s more to it than horsepower; anyway.
Thermodynamics in a nutshell.
I’ve recently been binging a guy who makes fun of flat-earthers. Good times.
Wouldn’t that be something?
Exactly! And legit, you can’t learn all that much about a place or a culture without actually being there.
Cedric and Leon have the best bromance. And yeah, that’s something that nearly all guys know.
How ponies pick seats.
Pfft, unicorns probably say the same thing about Pegasi.
I have to imagine that for some ponies it’s not that big a deal. Probably only really special for Silver since she’s got the latest one.
How do trolls reproduce.
Actually, never mind, not sure I want to know.
Glowy swords beat rayguns every day of the week. That’s a fact.
The only machine that Silver Glow needs is a waffle maker. And that’s hardly a machine, really.
It’s good to be roomies with an adrenaline junkie. And what do you bet that that was something that they considered when they decided that Peggy should be her roommate?
Oh, if only that were true! Unfortunately, they can also get pregnant when they DON'T want to.
Somewhat raunchy joke that a feminist told me back in the 70s
If men had periods, there'd be a paid 5 day vacation every month.
If men got pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament
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Which is the disadvantage. Silver can do whatever when she’s out of season with no consequence, but no matter how much she wants, she can’t get a foal when she’s off estrus. Whereas a human can get pregnant any season she wants . . . or doesn’t.
And the sad thing is, it’s probably true.
Which, as the comments section has repeatedly said, causes its own set of problems.
It's crossed my mind a few times now, but I really hope she's cleaning that Camelbak off screen. That would get unpleasant and dangerous after long enough. Hell, I remove the seal and clean underneath it every time I clean my insulated cup. It grew mold once. Never again.
You know, I've recently improved my handwriting as well. I hadn't intended to, it just kind of happened, though at the same time, I did start putting a conscious effort into improving my signature, because the ATF has gotten really picky about signatures recently, though probably because our paperwork was perfect and they're trying to find excuses to revoke licenses. The aspect of my handwriting that's seen the most improvement recently is phone numbers, but that still needs some work.
I think it's funny that 2016 was the first year they actually won the World Series since before World War I.
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That's part of the reason it came up in the story at all, honestly. Since there was a several-month delay between IRL events and chapters being published, I knew the outcome of the World Series before any of the characters did.
And coming from a state that has what is arguably the worst football team (the Detroit Lions), the idea of finally ending the drought and actually winning the series is a hope we all hold dear.
Doubt it's gonna happen.