October 1
Cayenne and Gusty and Nicky arrived a few hours after we'd gone to bed, and so me and Aquamarine both got up to greet them and show Gusty and Nicky where their bed was. Cayenne was kind of mad that she didn't get a real bed but said that it was better than sleeping in a van, which she'd done on the way here.
She was happy that we had lots of beer, though and asked if we were going to bring any to watch the airshow. I didn't think that we were allowed to, but I was hoping that we'd have a chance to meet up with all the weatherponies afterwards and that was what it was for.
So the three of us got up on the couch and I said that everyone was meeting for breakfast at nine and if she wasn't awake by 8:30 we were going to drag her into a cold shower again, and then we snuggled up and fell back asleep.
Morning came a little bit too soon, and I was already thinking that I was going to be tired on Monday, 'cause I thought that we probably wouldn't get to sleep until late tonight, either. And we were the first ones awake, but I knew that with only one shower in the room there was going to be some competition to use it, so me and Aquamarine took our turn first before anyone else woke up.
And I wasn't going to tell her about Cedric, 'cause I wanted that to be a surprise, but then I wound up telling her about watching him at the football game and she was looking kind of sad that she hadn't gotten to see him play yet, and so I did tell her. And I saw her cock her ear out towards the lounge room just in case her portable telephone was ringing right now.
I thought he would probably not arrive until the afternoon since he'd had a game last night.
We got groomed in the lounge so that Jenny could use the shower, and by the time she was done Sean and Christine were waiting to have a turn, and I went in to wake up Peggy, and it was a pretty chaotic morning. The room had a coffee maker in it but only enough coffee to make two cups, so we had to decide who wanted it the most and who was willing to wait for it. And Sean had to get dressed pretty quickly and then got kicked out of his room so that Peggy could get dressed after she got out of the shower.
Gusty and Nicky came out of the bedroom together and they were both wearing identical sleeping clothes, which was really cute. When they got in the shower we decided that it was time to wake up Cayenne, so me and Aquamarine started shaking her until she opened her eyes and stuck her head up and then looked over at the coffee maker hopefully, but there wasn't any coffee left, so she was gonna have to wait until she went downstairs to breakfast.
It was almost nine when Cayenne finally got in to the shower and we didn't want to abandon her in our room but we didn't want to be late for breakfast either. It wasn't her fault that she'd been the very last one to shower and we ought to have woken her up when we got up and made her shower then.
We were twenty minutes late by the time she was done, and then we all crowded into an elevator and rode it down to the restaurant. I made sure to get in first so that I could be up against the windows and look out, and we stopped on a floor partway down but when the people waiting saw how crowded the elevator was they didn't want to get on.
There was a restaurant where everyone was getting together, and the tables weren't big enough for everyone so ponies and people were just taking tables that were close together. And almost all the weatherponies were already there, and when Lofty saw me she put down her food and trotted over to nuzzle me. And pretty soon it got kind of confusing to keep track of everything that was going on, 'cause Lofty and Paradise were telling me about the tornado they'd stopped, and Meghan and her friends had all come by and were talking to a couple of pegasuses. Prism Glider got yelled at for getting excited and flying inside, but only after he'd bumped his head on a chandelier. And everpony's helpers were there except for Cayenne's, and there really wasn't any order to it at all. But that was okay, because everyone was enjoying themselves, and there was a little buffet that had hot food and pastries and bread and cereal so everybody could get what they wanted. Sean got lots of bacon and Christine had to find a different cereal, because they didn't have any Fruit Loops.
Some of the other hotel guests who were eating breakfast came over, too, and the first man was disappointed when he found out that none of us were Wonderbolts, 'cause he said that he'd heard that they were going to be in the airshow, and I hoped that was true. Flanking Line wanted to give him an autograph anyway, 'cause she said that they were heroes for stopping a tornado but he wasn't impressed.
The next people that came over were, though. I guess Paradise had been on television and they recognized her and they asked if it was true that they were the first ponies to have earned flight licenses, and I said that I was the first and I could go up to my room and show them. And I thought about telling them that I'd gotten to fly a Dreamliner simulator but that felt like bragging.
I overheard someone talking to Gusty, too, who had seen her on Orange is the New Black, and there were a couple of people down at the other end of the table talking to Stormbreaker and Velvet Light.
So they talked to us for a while and we probably could have stayed in the restaurant for a couple more hours just getting caught up but we had to go get anything that we wanted for the day and then we were going to ride the tornado team's bus to the airfield.
The bus was like a short school bus, not flat in front like the buses I'd been riding on before, but instead of being yellow it was black, and inside it was really nice. We let all the helpers sit up in the front and everybody else got in the back and some ponies had to share seats or sit on laps but nobody minded.
I found out that we weren’t actually going to an airport but to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which was a race track for cars but also a good place for airplanes to race. And we got special parking, too, that was pretty close, and we had a big room at the top of a building instead of having seats in the grandstands with everyone else, and it had a really good view of the course. So we got to go by all the people who were waiting in line, and Mister Salvatore and Mister Barrow stayed down at the bottom so that they could check in our friends as they arrived. He hadn't been able to arrange for more hotel rooms, but he could put as many people as would fit here, so everyone's friends were welcome.
There were lots of signs and pictures for Red Bull, and I hoped that it wasn't the same red bull as in The Last Unicorn, because then Cayenne and Gusty would be in danger. But we'd protect them from it if it was, and I didn't think our helpers would take us someplace that was dangerous anyway.
We hadn't been there all that long when they announced that there was going to be a bit of a delay in qualifying because of the rain, and there was some grumbling at that but most of us were having so much fun talking that we weren't too disappointed. Flanking Line said that we'd ought to go up there and clear away the rainclouds so that the airplanes could race, and she told Lofty who went and asked Mister Dove if they could, and he said that they didn't have permission and there was no chance he could get it before the race was over.
We thought that was kind of dumb, since we could have just gone up there and it probably wouldn't have taken much more than an hour or two to clear the skies over the whole race track, and then have a small group of ponies stay up there to break up the clouds as they came in.
More people started showing up—Meghan and her roommates were first, and they all came over and greeted me and Meghan crouched down so we could nuzzle each other, and then I introduced them to the other college ponies and all the weather ponies, and pretty soon I had to do it again when Aric and David and Angela arrived. And there were other people, too; a couple of Cayenne's friends had come, and so had a bunch of people that Gusty knew, and I tried to remember everybody's names but there were just so many that I couldn't keep track of them all.
The race course was set out with giant cones, and it wasn't that different from a pegasus race course, although we used clouds, of course. Lofty said that after the qualifying was done that they were going to do a demonstration race around the course as a team and I could join if I wanted to. I'd have to be in the back, since they'd practiced the course yesterday but I hadn't, and that was okay.
We found a stack of books that told us about the race and all the different pilots and there was a little picture of each of them in the back, along with a picture of a weather team fighting a storm in Equestria, and it didn't look like any of them were actually in that picture. I guess they hadn't had a chance to take a picture of them in Oklahoma or Texas.
Every now and then another person would show up, and I saw Aquamarine look hopefully at the door each time, but there was no sign of Cedric or Leon by the time the qualifying started, and we all turned our attention to the windows or went out on the balcony so that we could watch.
I don't think the other ponies really appreciated it quite as much as I did, because I'd actually flown almost-real airplanes and I'd been in a couple, too, and they were quick but they didn't turn very well. But these did; they flew a lot like a pegasus might. They banked all the way over on their sides to clear the cones, or to make really sharp turns, and then they'd snap back level and go on to the next one.
They were different colors so you could easily tell them apart, and some had names on the wings like Breitling or Red Bull (there was a human flying it, not a bull). And they took turns racing around the course, 'cause there wasn't a lot of room for all the airplanes so only the best ones were gonna get to be in the good race, Lofty said.
I didn't see Cedric come in, but all of a sudden, Aquamarine dropped her hooves off the railing and ran through the room and I kind of lost her with all the people, but it didn't matter, 'cause Cedric was easy to see, since he was the biggest person in the room.
Leon went over to the snack table and started making himself a plate and it was a little strange because Mister Dove had a bit of a frown on his face when he went over to talk to him, but then Leon straightened up and I thought I could see a little bit of a change in him. I couldn't really describe what it was, but Mister Dove's frown went away and I could see him relax, and then pretty soon the two of them were talking, and it was like they were best friends all of a sudden.
Most of the afternoon, the different airplanes were qualifying, and we sort of took turns watching them or talking and getting snacks. Lofty had to keep reminding her team to not eat so much that they couldn't fly, and she insisted that nopony could have more than one or two beers or else they weren't going to be able to race because she said that we were supposed to be setting a good example. And then an official from the race track came in and told us that there was one more qualifying run and then it was time for us to fly, and Lofty told him that I'd be flying with them, if they wanted to announce my name, too.
She led us to a little waiting paddock that had a little tunnel that led out to the main course, and when the airplane got done running the course it landed and the announcer told everyone about us, and he said my name at the very end and that was pretty exciting.
Lofty had lined us all up in order, and the track official leaned over and she nodded, then turned back to make sure everypony was ready, then we took off, one after another.
I was glad I was in the back, 'cause I could see that everypony was flying about one ponylength apart and it was pretty simple, basic flight camp stuff. But I don't think that anybody in the crowd had ever seen anything like it before, and I heard a lot of applause as we peaked and dove, then went around the course like a long snake. We mimicked some of the stuff the airplanes did, like turning on our sides when we went through the cones, and when we'd gotten to the end of the course Lofty went up and then looped back down so that we could do it again backwards, and she'd kind of forgotten that I was at the very end of the line and I could see where she had to drop a little bit further than she'd planned but I don't think anybody watching would have noticed.
The second time around, instead of being in a line, we did a behind-and-up formation, where everypony was in pairs and the wingmare flew behind and above her partner, and since there was an odd number of ponies I just flew the same path as Electric Blue was. And when we got back to the beginning of the course, everypony fell back into a straight line and we did one pass above the runway, about mid-level on the grandstands, then we looped around at the very end and spread out along the course and just stopped facing everyone and then did a mostly coordinated landing on the track in front of the grandstands.
There were lots of cheers and claps as we bowed on the ground, then Lofty called for everypony to take off straight up, and when we were all in the air again, she turned and led us back out of the race course.
That was a lot of fun because I hadn't done any formation flying in a long time, but it was kind of intimidating to see all those people in front of us.
When we went back up to our lounge, we all got champagne which was bubblier than I liked and tickled my nose but tasted pretty good. There wasn't much more to watch outside, 'cause all the pilots had already raced, so we mostly stayed inside and talked, and Stormbreaker and Merry May went out to the balcony and flew off of it and raced in circles around our building.
Meghan and Lisa and Becky were really popular with the weatherponies, 'cause they could speak Equestrian and there were a few ponies on the team who weren't very good at English at all, so they were a lot happier talking to the girls. And I told Meghan that if she wanted to try and get a stallion, I wouldn't be mad at her, 'cause I saw how she was looking at Stormbreaker, and her face got really red and she said that it wasn't like that but I thought that maybe if I had a chance I'd tell Stormbreaker she was interested. The toys were nice but they weren't the same as a real stallion.
We had a chance to go see the Red Bull airplane, and that was really fun. We weren't allowed to touch it, or get in it, because it had to race tomorrow and they were a little bit worried that we might accidentally break it. But they did let us fly over it, and Paradise thought it was fun to fly over its wings and be dominant when it was stuck on the ground. I thought it was kind of silly to get in a territorial fight over an airplane, since it wasn't anything more than a machine, and I told her I'd seen an airplane when it was just a big roll of tape, but it made her happy anyways.
And I got to meet the pilot, too. He'd talked to most of the other ponies yesterday, but it was his first time meeting me and he shook my hoof and said that it was an honor to meet the first pegasus with a pilot's license.
We talked about flying a little bit and I'd thought from watching him that he had instincts almost as good as a pegasus. He'd been around airplanes for almost forty years, and done lots of flying although I still had more hours in the air than he did.
Medley invited everybody back to their suite to have a party, and she had to give directions to people who were staying in different hotels, 'cause they couldn't ride in the bus with us. And while we were riding back Mister Dove reminded everypony that we had to respect the other guests at the hotel, so we couldn't be too loud and then Paradise asked if they could sleep in the bus if they got kicked out of the hotel, and he said that we were not allowed to and nobody was supposed to nest on the roof of the hotel, either.
Flanking Line said that was a dumb rule and humans just had that rule because they were jealous that they couldn't fly.
So it turned out that they had a suite like ours, just a few floors down, which was really convenient for everybody. And the whole evening kind of turned into a blur; there were lots of people and ponies going back and forth between our rooms and then we found out that our helpers had room on the same floor, too, and I don't think that they really wanted to join the party but they kind of got dragged into it anyways.
And after a while they kind of got in the spirit of it, and Mister Salvatore had some playing cards so he played some poker with a couple of the weatherponies until Miss Cherilyn saw and made him stop. Cedric left early and took Aquamarine with him, and Leon went down to the swimming pool with a couple of ponies who wanted to swim. Cayenne drank too much and then went away with a couple of her friends, and I wasn't sure that we'd even see her tomorrow, especially if we weren't there to wake her up.
There were a couple of times that somebody from the hotel stopped by to remind us to be quiet, and we were for a while but there were a lot of people and a lot of ponies and we were all having fun.
Some of us went downstairs for a race in the parking lot, and we dragged Peggy along as a judge. I didn't win, 'cause Merry May was faster than she looked. And then we decided that we'd fly back up along the side of the hotel and knock on the window of their room until somepony noticed us, so we did that and it was a little while before anypony did, 'cause nopony was looking out the windows and it was dark outside.
They had a hot tub in their room which wasn't fair, 'cause we didn't, and as the night went on that started to be more and more popular, but it wasn't big enough for everypony and we had to take turns in it.
Most of the humans didn't want to use it because they didn't have swimming clothes with them, but after Angela went in in her underwear, Aric decided that he would, too, and I went in with him and after a while Meghan joined us and that was really nice. I wouldn't have minded staying in there for a couple of hours but other ponies wanted a turn and I was a little light-headed 'cause I'd had a little more to drink than I should have.
I don't know what time it was but it was pretty late, and the party was kind of breaking up, and ponies and people had just kind of found anyplace that they could to sleep. Aric had had to go back to his hotel with Angela and David, but Meghan had gotten left behind by her friends, so she was still around somewhere but I didn't know where for sure. I thought about going back to my room, but I was pretty sure that neither Aquamarine or Cayenne would be there, and if everybody else was sleeping in the same beds as before, that meant that I would be alone on the couch and I didn't really want to be, so I poked my nose into one of the bedrooms and got into bed with Lofty and Paradise and Rocky Storm, and it didn't take too long for me to fall asleep.
For anybody who's forgotten who the ponies on the tornado team are.
The Cedmarine ship is sailing!
The polyamory mentality of ponies is really clashing with western society's mentality of monogamy. =x
Guess they aren't getting any sleep too.
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I SHIP IT!
I wish I could draw.
Cayenne reminds me of kids I went to college with. They majored in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll with a minor in party. What was Leon's offense, eating while black? Or just something as innocent as violating the Mann act? (Taking a woman across state lines for sexual purposes. Yes, that is technically illegal)
Champagne (at least the cheap stuff) tastes sort of like hard cider or apple wine
7768812 pleaseee admiral make that happen, meghan totally deserved to have some fun with a stallion.
And totally on the cedramarine ship.
Great chapter too, it'so nice to read this fic ^^
7768801 There was even champagne! They said it was for the flight, but we know better.
Also will be interesting to see tomorrow if Meghan ended up with Stormbreaker.
Where do they land if the race is at the speedway? Do they use a straightaway or go to the airport?
This is going to bite Silver in her rear.
Maybe Aric got Silvers potatoes out of the fire and took Meghan with them or to her hotel...
... or she had a nice roll in the hay with Stormbreaker...
So much fun at teh airshow and the after dinner party. Good thing there wasnt any snow around, all that Apres Skie.
:Michael Cain:
What an ass.
Ponies gonna pony.
I'd really like to know what happened with Leon and Mister Dove.
7768766 I broke out my Merry May blindbag just for this chapter. I hope you're happy.
7769334 Say Michael Cain in his voice. What does it sound like?
The whole cast (or almost) all in one place for a chapter, talk about a big fun party!
7769649 I ask after every item "Is that everything?" If they give me no attitude and tell me the truth I let SOME of it in. If you tell me that's it and I find more I'm taking it all, throw attitude my way and I might even turn you away... sans the contraband.
Call me a dick but I love it doing this to parents in front of their kids. "Is this everything?" In a super patronizing tone, if they lie then I continue talking to them like they would their child. It's hilarious how often the kids will join in and shame mommy for lying... Or rat them out.
Almost as good as the outrage on the parents faces when I "reward" the kid for telling the truth by giving them some of their candy back.
It's hard to find entertainment searching 20,000 people and telling them no. Any source of amusement is precious.
7751008 I have stories for days on what we've pulled on Americans at work... I still think I win though.
Had a man that could not have fit the "Texan oil baron" stereotype any better if he'd tried. He was in Toronto and wanted to drive his wife to VANCOUVER for LOBSTER dinner. He wanted to know if he could make it in 4 hours. I not only convinced him it would take just a little longer but managed to rope a bystander into helping me give him directions. After all, once you hit Highway 1 you just stay on it.
7769745 Yeah, of course, but it doesn't stop me from wanting things to end well, not them being bitter at each other, but instead learning from the experience and still being friends at the end.
Not going to deny that the sad ending is more likely, just saying I hope it doesn't end sad. Only time can tell.
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That's a problem when you have several generations examining only a single example of something. Everybody ends up assuming it's a typical example.
(Though I understand that hot Jupiters, being both heavy and close to the star, were easier to find than other exoplanets, which is why so many were found early in the exoplanet search...)
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pH is minus the base ten log of the activity of the hydrogen ion content of a solution. For strong acids (acids which fully dissociate in water), activity can be simplified as the concentration of the hydrogen ion content in moles/Litre. The reason the scale runs between 0 and 14 is that the dissocation constant (Ka) of water at room temperature is 1 * 10^-14 (or, it has a pKa of 14). The reason neutral pH is 7 is because the concentration of hydrogen ions in pure water is 1 * 10^-7.
1 Molar acid, around the probable strength of any acid you're likely to have used in a chemistry class, has a pH of 0 (for a monoprotic acid; 1 Molar sulphuric would be ~ -0.3). 10 Molar acid would be -1, and 100 Molar acid would be -2.
100 Molar acid isn't actually possible though, because for an acid to dissociate in water, it must have a water molecule to accept the hydrogen ion. There are ~ 55.5 Moles of water in a Litre, so 55.5 Molar is the strongest any solution could possibly be. As you approach that limit, it gets harder to dissolve more acid, but that's the theoretical limit.
-log10(55.5) is ~ -1.74, so that's the lowest possible pH. The same applies on the other side of the scale, so 14 + 1.74 = 15.74, is the highest possible pH.
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Maybe some more can help me figure it out!
What do you mean polygamy is a crime!?
7769698 I just remembered that she has been shown doing regular sonic booms in the show as well, though. For example, in "No Second Prances" when she's talking to Starlight. This complicates things. I suppose we could chalk it up to artistic license, but that seems more of a last-resort headcanon for when no other explanation works. Explaining things that way is not a good habit, as it can lead down the path of becoming a genwunner.
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"Anything to declare, Miss Silver?"
"N-- nobody! Err, I mean, nothing."
"You're not hiding a pet human in that suitcase, are you?"
7770276 I said bird strike. Canadian Geese don't count as they're devil spawn. Canada's air defence system... Vicious on the ground AND in the air.
...
Is it wrong I want Silver to encounter some? It'd be adorable or a bloodbath.
7769988 I've actually wondered about that every now and then. Thanks for that. :)
For some reason, it would make me happy if she really did end up with Stormbreaker. The kind of fuzzy warm happy. Meghan has gone through such an amazing character development, and entirely believable at that.
And I also want to know what the problem with Leon was.
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Ah, right.
7769821 ask and you shall receive or something...
Sorry if you didn't wanted to know @_@
enough
couple
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Corrections made; thank you!
7770592 Interesting coincidence, I just discovered today that there's ... sort of a video game like that XD
http://youtu.be/DXhk-XCY4i0
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Discord: "Trust me, Starlight. You REALLY DON'T want to know that answer!"
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Wow, I haven't seen that video in ages. I think it's older then youtube. :)
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The founding fathers sure were wise laying out the city in such a way that every time a new monument was built it added a new occult symbol.
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7769988 already answered this -- however, it's worth noting (or at least, it might win you a round of Trivial Pursuit: Science Geek Edition sometime ) that it is possible to have acids or bases that are stronger than the limits of the pH scale, since those limits describe the behavior of an aqueous solution (i.e. acids or bases dissolved in water). Fluoroantimonic acid (H2SbF7), which is the strongest (currently) known "superacid", has a theoretical pH of -31.3 -- emphasis on theoretical; obviously this isn't really "pH", since that would indicate an impossibly high hydronium-ion concentration of 10^31.3 mol/L. Instead, it indicates that the fluoronium ions (H2F+, which is the acid species at work in this case) present in the solution have a protonating ability equivalent to such a (fictitious) concentration of H3O ions, and is more normally expressed as the Hammett Acidity Function, H0, rather than pH.
Either way, though, fluoroantimonic acid should definitely be filed under "things to stay very, very far away from." (Check out the blog "Things I Won't Work With" for more examples of chemical compounds which prove that experimental chemists are certifiably insane for even thinking about synthesizing them, much less actually making the stuff...)
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That's true, they are different skillsets. I'll never be good at artsy stuff, it's just not a skill I have. But the GE requirements for liberal arts and math are on a completely different level (and the actual degrees follow the same pattern) Most of my liberal arts GE classes are actually needed to get a degree in that field. My philosophy class, for example, is required for a bachelors in philosophy. On the other hand, the GE math classes are things I had in middle and high school. So people complaining about having to take a GE level math class tends not to get a whole lot of sympathy. It also doesn't help that a philosophy degree is literally 60 units less than a mechanical engineering (it has to be heavily padded with free units to actually even meet the minimum requirements for a degree) and students are expected to complete these degrees in the same amount of time. It does create some tension.
oh dear god why. although using it would be similar to english units.
yeah, it's also common to not require simplification, so I could leave an answer as 2(1+3) if I really wanted to. Simplifying is another place where you can make a mistake. If your in a calculus class and you do all the calculus right but mess up simplifying, you still messed up. Just last week, my professor said "assuming my algebra is right". It's always possible to make a mistake.
rigid and non rigid wouldn't make a difference. In rigid systems, none of the parts are allowed to bend, so the bones in the arm are straight. In a non rigid system, parts are allowed to flex and bend. So the weight you are holding would cause your bones to bend and your muscles and tendons to stretch a bit. The key thing is that the system is static. We're saying that the weight you're holding is not moving so your hand is exerting and equal and opposite force on the weight. In terms of mechanics (what i'm good at), the work (energy expended/gained) by a system (the muscle) is given by the integral of F.ds where F is the is Fdx, meaning that the energy expended is equal to the force generated times the distance over which the force is exerted. In order to keep the weight stationary, your muscle needs to generate a force to counteract the tension and prevent the muscle from expanding. However, because the weight is not moving, the force is not being exerted over a distance (dx is 0) so no energy is exerted. But the muscles are expending energy, I just have no idea how to calculate it.
my current hypothesis is that they're somehow using magic as an anchor of sorts.
but she's going to have nothing when she leaves. So she could have a few months of misery before leaving both of them, or she could just cut everything off now and save everyone the misery.
pretty much, although i was thinking of just having it fixed around the pegasus. i'm still working out the details though. I was pretty much only thinking that it would block out wind gusts. or the pegasus can control what's allowed through.
well in this case, an impact means she could just grab a block while moving (not under power though). There probably is a better way to measure it, but this is the first thing I thought of.
yeah they do have a lot of it. The plot of the first one (the only one I saw) is twilight need to become prom queen in order to save the world. I hated high school, so i'm not really eager to revisit it. Not to mention that i'm here for my little PONY, not whatever pseudohuman things are in equestria girls (because they definitely aren't humans).
we'll just chalk it up to Silver being a pony.
It's not infinite, but it is a ridiculously high amount amount of energy. A failure could easily launch shrapnel at mach 2, that's not going to be easily stopped. I can't calculate how fast that turbine was going without knowing what it was made of, but it must have been ridiculously fast in order to permanently deform it (normal operating speeds could be easily be 10,000 rpm)
I guess Aquamarine's gonna finally see Cedric's sack.
Time will tell if she's as impressed with it as Silver was.
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I know! It's terrible, isn't it?
Maybe. . . .
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Yeah, me too. I've always thought about giving it a try, but so far I've never managed.
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That's totally Cayenne's plan. Although she's also getting a degree in physics.
Basically. Since he does his best to give off a ghetto vibe, even though he's not really that way.
Hmm, I'd never really thought of it that way, but I think you're right.
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She had him when they arm-wrestled.
Thanks!
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Won't it?
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From the YouTube vids, it looks like they used a straightaway.
At about the 50 sec mark, you can see what looks like runway markings somewhere under the course.
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Honestly, there's a room full of pegasi--do you think anyone's going to be able to drag Meghan out of that room?
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You know that ponies on the tornado team have tried sleeping on the roof of their hotel.
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Correction made; thank you!
I know!
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Who wouldn't want her autograph?
Ponies gotta snuggle with other ponies or humans. That's a fact.
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Leon's so good at giving off his ghetto vibe that Mister Dove went over to make sure that he wasn't up to something, and then Leon disarmed him by switching back to his charming, upper-class personality--the one he normally hides.
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Immensely so. I'd have to look, but I'm not sure that I have a Merry May blindbag.
I've only gotten busted once for legit contraband, and I should have seen it coming. A special showing of Rocky Horror at a movie theatre; of course they were going to make sure that people weren't carrying stuff in.
Yeah, I can see that. I got started in the MLP fandom because I was watching a very difficult developmentally disabled adult, and in my downtime on shifts with him I needed something that was as far away from dealing with his BS as I could find.
Oh man, I'm not very good at Canadian geography, but even I know that Toronto to Vancouver is a rather long haul. I suppose if he was rich enough and had his own private, very fast jet, he could have made it.
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A good chunk of them, to be sure. Nothing like partying with a room full of pegasi!
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Well, for what it's worth the only polyamorous relationship I was in ended reasonably well. And anyways, who could stay mad at Silver Glow?
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Exactly. For all we know, our solar system is the exception, rather than the rule. Likewise, life as we know it might be the rarest kind, and maybe the whole universe is chock-full of silicon-based life forms that live on those hot Jupiters.
Yeah, they were about the easiest ones to find. Although apparently quite by accident, because before we started finding them, the theory suggested that no planet that size could be that close to the star.
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Interesting! So if you had an acid around the -1 or -1.5 level, that's probably about as potent as you're likely to get without putting heroic effort into it? And likewise on the other end of the scale, 15 to 15.5 might be as basic as you could get?
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It's a well-known science fact that increasing your sample size gives you better results.
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It could be, as with Twilight's teleporting, the more practice she has, the better she is at doing them. The first time, when she was a filly, probably accidental. The second time, she had performance anxiety, and only did it when she was trying to save her friends. But now she's confident she can still do them as an adult, and has put the effort into making them work for her.
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"Er, no, of course not. What kind of silly pony would think that they could fit a pet human in a suitcase?"
What Meghan ought to do is spend the bucks on a good pony fursuit and try to sneak across the border that way.
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Ain't that the truth.
Silver Glow gets in a fight with geese . . . yeah, I could actually see that happening.
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Meghan and Stormbreaker is kinda adorable, isn't it?
Since he normally has his ghetto persona turned on, Mister Dove came over to figure out if he was really supposed to be there . . . basically, The Man trying to put him down.
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Well, I mean now if someone asks I do know. And it's not the strangest thing I've learned in the pursuit of knowledge.
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And that was a thing that I saw.
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You know, probably even Discord doesn't quite understand how her mind works.
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It could be. It certainly has the look of 'classic' about it.
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That's because they were all reptilians. Or else it was the aliens who were using mind-control lasers on them . . . it's so hard to keep track of.
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Also of interest is this What-If from XKCD: What is the worst thing you can make with a pressure cooker?
Dioxygen difluoride. Or if you're really creative, you can use that to get yourself hydrogen fluoride.
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What chapter did she see TLU in again? Mostly because that's one of my favorite movies ever (And can make me cry like crazy too)
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She didn't watch the movie, she read the book. And it was fairly early on, I don't remember exactly when.
Given who Meghan is, I suspect she's getting little sleep, but not for the reason anyone else would think. I don't think she jumped right in with Stormbreaker; I think she's essentially lost 'cause everyone's mixing up the sleeping arrangements. Poor girl. I hope she finds Silver's pony cuddle pile.
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Correction made; thank you!