Well... · 6:40pm Mar 10th, 2012
I'm not going to spoil the new episode, but i did notice something very interesting. Twilight mentions seeing "The Horsehead Nebula" in her telescope. The horsehead nebula is a formation of dark gas particles obscuring part of the orion nebula, creating a silhouette int he shape of a horse's head. We can infer a few things about this:
1. The constellation Orion is visible in Equestria's sky.
2. If Equestria can see the horsehead nebula, then they must occupy a very similar galactic coordinate set that earth does to see the occlusion of the nebula to see the horsehead shape.
While it is possible to say "Hey! This may just be another unrelated nebula!" I still doubt that.
So, drawing our conclusions, we come up with:
a. Equestria is actually a past or future earth
b. Equestria is an alternate earth in another universe
I lean towards b, because that would explain the names of cities and such as influences from our universe as well as the existence of magic.
So where does that leave us?
TCB is semi-canon. It would be possible for Equestria and the Earth to merge with each other if the right spell was cast, since they are twins of each other.
So that's what I did with my day so far.
That sounds pretty good to me. I notice they also mentioned a city of Los Pegasus.
Of course, for Twilight to have any reason to monitor the stars would mean that they are real things, actually there, and not a backdrop with which Luna paints the sky.
A viable theory and provides very nice grounds for storytelling and fanfics. Although from a writer's viewpoint I'd put my money on the simplest explanation, namely that it's much easier to pick things that exist in our reality and port them directly over to the MLP:FiM universe.
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My thought's exactly.
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This is true; Occam's razor and such. Again, it is entirely possible that they have a horsehead nebula in their reality, I just thought that it fit well, especially with the city naming conventions they use as being influence from our reality.
I personally like a), Equestria being a future Earth where humanity has been wiped out by some cataclysmic event. It would explain all the influences it has in pony culture, like architecture, mugs, doorknobs, Lyra, etc.
Maybe that which wiped out the humans is also responsible for introducing magic to the world. This explanation wouldn't be at odds with TCB universe either. :)
Although I do consider TCB a separate reality entirely.
Seems legit
SCIENCE!!!
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What Krass said...