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scarcely, I think
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Adverbs avoided.
Scarce works in this context.
well pinkie can make a hoof-powered helicopter fly so i guess it goes in the family.
Volume # 334. That's a lot of oddities.
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Equestria is a magical place.
Is her son now Nickel Teapot?
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Whoops. That happens at times.
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I've seen you mention it in the past, but I don't get what the problem is with adverbs. They're a perfectly valid part of speech.
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http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/03/13/stephen-king-on-adverbs/
He says it better than I do.
In short, adverbs are shortcuts. Shorthand. They allow you to take a sentence that is full of action and compress it into one word.
I relied on them far too much in earlier works. They are telling, rather than showing.
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*shrug* I read that article and I still don't get it. Adverbs seem fine to me.
Particularly in that one sentence I pointed out previously, using "scarce" rather than "scarcely" sounds awkward to me, and almost feels like trying too hard not to use an adverb rather than writing it in a way that doesn't need one.
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Fair enough point. I'll change it.
Yes, I do think Maud could bring this thing to the speed of our motorized boats.
And Tarnish, I as well wanted tell Maud to pick up the pace even more.
I see a water skiing chapter coming up. Or at least a joke chapter. Not really sure how that would fit in the story.
This could be a good measurement for the strength of an earth pony.
One horsepower is the work output of a Cornish mine pony in the 1800s, and getting a heavy, unaerodynamic boat that size on plane takes at least a 25hp outboard motor. That is not taking into accoubt how inneficent paddlewheels are at that speed. I've seen ultralight helicopters that fly on 30 to 35hp, so that leaves the question, are the Pies that much stronger than the average earth pony? How fast could Applejack get one of those boats going?
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I dunno... I suspect Maud is exceptional by any standard.
6302615 hahah! i agree! Maud is awesome n.n
6302615 laff.
Awesome job on this Kud, twas an epic chapter well done! :D
She could easily water ski with that.
6832589 And have enough speed left over for the pony water skiing to tow a bolder.
i blame pinkie pinkie crazy unpredictable...
6302606 get maud and applejack into a duel... if this happened, luna would look out the castle balcony and have flashbacks of the moon...
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"Unfortunately, I cannot attain enough speed in an unmodified swan. I can tow a fully-loaded barge at five knots, but the transmission is geared too low for me to attain waterskiing speed."
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I realize this is five years late, but, I must correct this.
Horsepower is not what you have stated. A horse can generate around 14hp at their peak. One horsepower is the amount of power it takes to lift a 550lb (250kg) block 1 foot in the air. Which is about 746 Watts of power. This term was coined by James Watts who made the calculations in the 1800s when observing ponies and draft horses working in mills.
Also, another thing that hasn't been mentioned: A paddle boat designed to be powered by the passengers is physically incapable of reaching high speeds. Now, there is a difference between pedal, and paddle, boats. Paddle boats are terribly inefficient and because of their design you start cavitating at around 3mph and I doubt you could go over 5mph. Cavitation is when the propeller is pushing water through, but it is spinning so fast that fresh water is unable to full the gap fast enough and thus your speed stalls because there is nothing to push as the next blade of the propeller comes down for a scoop.
No matter how hard or fast Maud turns the pedals on a paddle boat, it will not go anywhere.
Now, if it was a pedal boat, which are generally used for racing and such... Are designed for single passengers and most certainly not recreation... Are built very different than paddle boats and they can reach about 20mph when powered by an Olympian, I don't think they cavitate at that speed however. So in our pony world it's possible Maud could make it go faster... But that's a pedal boat, not a recreational paddle boat.
Finally, skiing requires at LEAST 15mph and is more comfortable at 28-35mph. The tiniest aluminum boat equiped with a 25hp motor MIGHT hit 35mph, but definitely not with another person, and DEFINITELY not dragging them out of the water. I owned a 16ft bare bones fiberglass craft for a time and was barely able to pull a 180lb man out of the water on skiis with a 75hp motor. It required a skilled skiier to get up behind that boat because it dragged them for so long before it could get up to speed.
I know this is terribly random, but as I reread this story I cannot let these facts remain unsaid.
For the author: I am enjoying this as much as I did when I read it the first time, chapter by chapter! I am reading this while waiting for more Sundance!
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That is assuming that the ponies built them the same way
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A year later, I might add to this discussion:
A note of intrigue is that this was described, in fact, as a boat worked by pedals- she works her way up to a trot and then a canter, implying that it might be a rotary pedal system like what you might see on a bike using her hind legs. A quick google search shows that swan boats like this do exist, however if it works as described then the pedals would be in the back instead on either side of the neck and the neck would have a simple lever/wheel system on it to steer. Now I’m not terribly precise on the math, but it is described that Maud got the boat all the way up to the point where it skidded by the rotor over the surface of the water- this is with 3 ponies inside, and presumably a good amount of unnecessary plastic material to give off the swan appearance. Given that this plastic-like material didn’t snap under Maud’s ability to turn the lake into her plaything, there are two conclusions that can be drawn: either A. Both ponies and this material are all super light (Though given what the Pie family eats, I doubt this more than the latter) or B. This is some super durable material that humanity hasn’t quite discovered yet, and/or it’s carbon nanoweaved and we lack the means to actually manufacture it. Either way, I’m inclined to believe B, and this leads me to believe that the force Maud is putting out is well above what an Olympian can do, and probably above quite a few true motors in the sport as well.
It may very well require a ‘getting up’ period longer than average and thusly requiring quite the skilled water skiier, but there’s little doubt from my perspective that that boat with Maud in it would allow them to cruise on just about any board of their choosing.