September 10 [Riding in the Rain]
September 10
Neither of us wanted to get out of bed right away, even though we were both awake not long after the sun came up. I put my head down on her chest for a while, until she had to get up and use the bathroom, and then when she got back in bed she laid on her side and snuggled me in her arms, and fell asleep again, and then she woke me up by rubbing my stallion toy on my belly and she'd brought hers, too, which was kind of fun and different.
We took a shower and then she had me sit on her lap and preen my wings, and then we went into the kitchen to make breakfast.
I'd bought enough food to make omelets and waffles for both breakfast today and tomorrow, and so she started chopping up vegetables while I mixed up the waffle batter and then when I thought it was good she stuck her finger in because she said that she had to test it that way, and her test was smearing a little bit on my nose so that she could lick it off.
So I stuck the mixing spoon on her nose and then licked it off her and she said that if we'd been making frosting things probably would have gotten out of control after that, but that it wasn't as fun with waffle batter.
She let me make the omelets while she cooked the waffles, and I kind of wished that I could have cooked it all by myself but it was really nice to have her in the kitchen with me.
We'd just finished eating when I heard rain, so I opened up the balcony door and went outside to see if it was a big storm or if it was just a passing raincloud, and Meghan stayed a little bit back 'cause she wasn't wearing any clothes.
After I'd seen that there weren't any nasty stormclouds on the horizon, I landed back on the balcony and shook off the rain then went back in. She had a towel for me, which was really nice of her, but it was still kind of wet from the shower so I don't know if having it draped over my back got me any drier than I had been.
Meghan used her portable telephone to check the weather and it said that it was going to rain off and on all day and maybe thunderstorm in the evening, too, and she said that that probably meant we couldn't go riding, but I wasn't sure why it would matter. I didn't mind getting wet and I didn't think that horses did, either. Aquamarine had never said that the horses at MSU went inside when it rained.
So I told her that I still wanted to even if it was raining a little bit and she said that we'd have to stop by her apartment so that she could get a raincoat and maybe also a sweatshirt but if I still wanted to so did she.
Well, we still had a little while even if we were going to go to her apartment first, so I said that we could watch the rain. So she sat in the papasan and I sat on her lap and we watched it out the window. When the rain was light, there were a couple of brave birds that came to the feeder, and I think they'd been staying in the tree, 'cause they flew back into it when the rain got a little bit heavier.
After a little while it stopped and then she said that she'd ought to get dressed so we could go to her apartment but neither of us really wanted to leave right away, so we sat a little bit longer and watched as the bigger birds came back and took their turns at the feeder. There was a blue jay who was kind of mean and he chased everyone off so that he could eat, and then he flew away again and the other birds came back.
I helped Meghan get dressed but I really wasn't much help. I think that I got in the way more than I actually helped, 'cause it was hard enough unfastening her clothes but it was nearly impossible to put them on, except for her panties and her t-shirt and her socks. She didn't mind, though.
I thought that maybe I should take my flight gear just in case a storm came up and I had to patrol, and Meghan said that she didn't think it would, but I'd been surprised by storms before and I didn't want it to happen again, so we got it all and put it in my saddlebags, and she said that she could carry them but I didn't think that was fair, so she put them on me instead and I stood on the chair so that she could tighten up my girth strap without having to lie on the floor. I bet if humans had designed saddlebags for us they'd fasten in the back where human hands could get at them more easily.
It didn't rain at all on our way to Meghan's house and it looked like the sky was clearing a little bit. And I kind of hoped that the weather on her portable telephone had been wrong, but I could still feel that there was more rain wanting to come down.
I guess she'd been busy packing, because a lot of her things were in cardboard boxes and she had to look around a little bit until she found a rain jacket and a sweatshirt. She put them in a backpack and then offered to put my flight gear in there too so I didn't have to carry my saddlebags but I thought that it would be mean to make her carry everything, so I said that I didn't mind carrying them.
She used her portable telephone to get an Uber-car, and it didn't take it too long to arrive. I really liked the Uber-cars, because it gave me a chance to ride in a lot of different kinds of car. I hadn't even imagined that there could be so many different kinds, but there were. This one was called an Encore and it was kind of ugly. It looked to me like it was supposed to be longer but that whoever had built it had just stopped before they finished the back.
It was nice on the inside, though.
Our driver wasn't all that good 'cause he got a little bit lost and then he missed the riding stables the first time he went by and had to turn around and go back. But we thanked him anyway 'cause he got us where we were going.
The dog came running over as soon as he saw me walking up the driveway, and he sort of trailed along right by my hind hooves as we walked towards the stables to find Deanne. We were a little bit early, 'cause we hadn't known how long it would take for the Uber-car to arrive, but her truck was parked out by the fence, so she was probably in the stables.
So we went inside and the dog sat at the entrance like he liked to do, and we found Deanne out in the aisle saddling up Hoshi for me. Henry already had his saddle on and I could tell by the mud on his hooves and fetlocks that he'd already been outside.
I went over to greet him and Hoshi, and when Deanne was done getting Hoshi ready she and Meghan both worked together to put on Peaches' gear. I wanted to help, too, but I thought that I'd just be in the way, so I stood back and let them do it.
It started raining just before we were ready to ride out, and Meghan reached into her backpack and put on her rain jacket. Deanne didn't have a rain jacket, but she had a light brown canvas coat that she put on.
Hoshi didn't really seem to like the rain all that much. She sort of waited at the end of the barn until she was sure that Henry really was going to go out there and not come right back, then she put her head down and followed him, and I felt a little bit bad for her, 'cause I think she would have rather stayed inside.
Once we got a little ways away from the barn, though, she turned her ears back forward and brought her head up and I petted her neck.
When we were on the trail, the trees kept most of the rain off us, and Meghan folded her hood back. Deanne led us along the path, looking back every now and then to make sure that we were still following her and shouting at Peaches when she decided to stop and eat some leaves.
When we got to a section of the path that was well-covered by trees so that it was almost dry, Deanne said that it was a good spot to run them at if they wanted to, so she sped Henry up to a canter and Hoshi got the idea, which was good because I couldn't reach far enough down with my legs to really get her attention. And I looked back and Peaches was cantering along with us, too.
When we got to a turn in the trail, Deanne said that if we wanted a longer ride, we could go along the powerline right-of-way. She said that it wasn't protected from the rain at all, but it was a pretty ride just the same, and I wanted to and then Meghan decided that she would, too.
I guess our luck was with us, 'cause the rain tapered off again not too long after we got out in the open. And it stayed away for our entire trip to where the electrical wires crossed the road, but then it came back along with some pretty gusty wind. The good thing was that the wind was at our backs, so Meghan's hood protected her pretty well, but I felt bad for Deanne 'cause she didn't have one.
And Hoshi kept wanting to run back to the barn and I had to encourage her not to and finally Deanne said that Hoshi didn't want to listen to me so we'd have to change horses. So I got to ride Henry and I think that confused him a little bit, 'cause he looked back at me a couple of times and tried to reach his head back so that he could sniff at me but he couldn't quite bend his neck far enough. Maybe if I'd sat all the way back on his rump he could have.
He didn't really listen to me, either, but he didn't need me to tell him the way back to the barn so it was okay. At least he didn't want to go galloping off.
By the time we got back to the barn we were all pretty wet, and we all had some mud on us that the horses had kicked up, too. Deanne and Meghan started unsaddling the horses and then they let me use the hose to rinse them off. And Henry shook himself off as soon as I'd moved the hose down to his legs which was kind of mean of him but Deanne thought it was really funny.
When I'd finished washing them down I used the hose on myself, too, to get the mud off, and I offered to rinse Meghan down but she said that she'd worry about that when we got back home.
Deanne said that it had been fun riding with us even if it was a little bit weird, and she hoped that we'd come back after school started. She said that it was really pretty in the fall and that there was nothing better than having a warm horse between your legs on a cold day and Meghan's face turned really red when she said that.
Meghan called for an Uber-car and then we stayed inside the barn to wait for it. It was warm and dry inside, which was nice. Deanne had gone in the tack room and put on dry clothes, and Meghan said that she wished she had some, but all she had was her sweatshirt and since her shirt was already dry that wouldn't have done her any good.
Our Uber-car back to Kalamazoo was a Sportage, which was a lot like the Encore but not as nice inside. And I thought about asking if we could stop at Meijer and get more bird food but Meghan's pants were still pretty wet and I thought she'd rather be home sooner.
She hadn't thought to bring extra pants, so she just took hers off and hung them over the shower curtain so that they'd finish drying off. And then she said that she was hungry and I was too, but I hadn't gotten any food for dinner, 'cause I didn't know what she'd want to eat or what cooking supplies she might have brought with her, so we ordered pizza instead.
She sat on the futon while we waited and I sat on her lap to keep her legs warm, and when the pizza finally arrived I went downstairs to get it 'cause she still didn't have dry pants.
After we'd gotten done eating I offered to go to her apartment and get her some and she said that she didn't mind, unless we were planning on going out again later. And I didn't have any plans for that and she didn't either. We still had lots of pizza left—we'd both been so hungry when we'd ordered it that we'd gotten too much—so later on when we got hungry again we'd have leftover pizza for dinner.
Meghan offered to help me pack if I wanted but there wasn't really much to do, and I thought that we could do it easily enough tomorrow. My papasan chair folded up and everything else fit into a few boxes that Mister Salvatore had. The only thing that was complicated was the futon and we needed that to sleep on tonight.
So we decided that we'd watch a movie, and we watched some short movies about Wallace and Gromit which were really funny. I thought maybe Meghan had thought of them because she wasn't wearing pants and in one of the movies, Wallace had special pants that would walk for him but then a penguin had taken their control and made Wallace break into a museum while he was sleeping.
I told Meghan that the National Air and Space Museum had had a moon rock and it wasn't cheese at all. And after we'd watched all of them I decided that my favorite was A Close Shave, because I thought that the sheep were really funny. And it was kind of sad at the end how Wallace and Wendolene couldn’t be together just because she didn't like cheese, which I thought was kind of a silly reason. I liked Meghan and Aric even though they couldn't fly.
We stopped watching movies long enough to have a late dinner, and then we started watching another, longer movie with them called The Curse of the Were-Rabbit when my portable telephone beeped and it was Mel and he said that there were thunderstorms coming and asked if I was able to patrol.
I kind of didn't want to so I didn't answer him right away and just laid back down on Meghan's lap but I couldn't ignore it and she noticed how I kept looking over at my portable telephone and not my computer, and she said it was okay. So I sent Mel a telegram back telling him to pick me up and then she helped me get dressed in my flight gear and put her pants back on.
I'd kind of missed our stormwatching spot, and when we got there I could see lightning off in the distance, so I took off and we checked our radios to make sure that they were still working, then I flew up into the sky.
It wasn't all that much of a storm, it turned out. There was a lot of lightning and thunder but not all that much rain, and it only lasted for an hour or so before it finally tapered off. Still, it would have been bothering me all evening if I hadn't gone out to watch it, because what if I hadn't been there and it had been bad?
We got back to my apartment around eleven and I told Meghan that I was sorry and we should have stayed home and watched the movie instead and she said it was okay because storms were my cheese and it wouldn't be fair of her to try and take that from me. She said that she worried when I flew in storms but she trusted that I knew what I was doing, and I kissed her and then we sat down on the futon and watched the rest of the movie, and when it was over she took off her shirt and put it on me, then she got undressed but instead of getting into bed she went over and turned off my computer and then she went over to the window and looked out and asked me if pegasi ever looked off at distant storms and wondered if their friends and lovers might not come back from them.
She told me that old coastal houses used to have what was called a widow's walk, where people could look out at the sea in the hopes of spotting ships, and I said that we didn't have those, 'cause we could just sit on clouds and look.
Then she got in bed and said that we'd better make tonight count because we'd be back in the dorms soon and it was hard to tell when we'd get any time to ourselves.
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My previous experiments with experimental cookery suggest that I know nothing about what makes an edible meal, so your gut may not be entirely wrong.
I drove a cab for a couple of months. When I was going somewhere & didn't know where it was I'd tell my passengers & let them give directions. I had to give it up because you mainly depend on tips. During the day people are mostly going to or from work, school, etc. & they only tip $1 or $2 no matter how far it is. You need to drive at night. People coming from parties are often drunk & much better tippers. Unfortunately, I can't see very well at night driving
No no! You got it wrong, it was definitevly a chicken!
Funny enough to get there own series and movie later on!
and then when she got back in bed she laid on her side -- lay. (I often find myself choosing another verb just because of how I hate remembering lay/lie and especially their past tenses.)
Have all standard seatbelts been redesigned to accommodate pony body shapes or are ponies exempt from State safety restraint laws or do only some cars have special pony seatbelts and the Uber app has an option to request rides specifically equipped with them?
Or are ponies stuck with uncomfortable regular human seatbelts? It was probably address in a previous chapter, but I can't remember.
I wonder if Silver's just making observations when she writes things like this, or whether she's writing them with a knowing smirk. Despite being a bit of a nympho, she has a certain innocence...
7717544 Same here cold winters without snow really suck!
Netflix has an Aardman Studios retrospective that covers all of their shorts and movies.
"A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman" 2015 / 59min.
Yo dawg, we herd you likd horse riding so we had a horse riding a horse after ridden like a horse.
Henry is really confused about a mare riding him.
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Well, that's only possible using her throne room map, and she doesn't want a hundred scientists crowding out her house.
OH MY GOD
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The horror! The horror!
(We totes need a Flower Trio emote for this.)
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This is exactly how I picture Silver when she's riding.
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She probably would want polarized filters for filtering out the glare and BlueBlocking for reducing chromatic aberration. It is too bad that goldplating is so expensive because gold is extremely good at reflecting infrared. Above the atmosphere, one has no protection from UV and infrared, so astronauts wear goldplated polarized UV-blocking vizors:
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That is Buzz Aldrin on Luna. If one looks at the goldplated vizor, one can see the reflection of Neil Armstrong and Tellus.
Nowadays, Cosmonauts, Taikonaut, and Astronauts wear vizors blocking everything Apollo-Era vizors blocked plus blueblocking (goldplated polarized vizors blocking UVA, UVB, Blue, and Infrared).
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¡Brilliant! ¡We will make a killing! ¡Let us do it!
I am caught up, so can no longer acknowledge what you will have to write for November, about 2 months ahead in storytime:
We suffer from the last gasp of the racists, misogynists, and xenophobes. The white males got upset with the election of a biracial President. The possibility of a female President was a bridge too far. The elected a xenophobic, misogynous racist bigot. The demographic changes allowing a biracial man to become President means that likely, the bigot will be the last president in his ilk, but right now, he and his party control all 3 branches of government.
Things will get far more dangerous for the ponies after the election. I imagine that the exchange-program will stop taking applicants after the election, and when the last humans return and ponies leave in 2017, the program will shutdown until at least 2021, by which time, Earth generally, and the USA particularly, will be in much worse shape.
7716926 you weren't kidding about the chrome tabs...
I am and was aware that the scenario I described was the exception to the rule. Perhaps it is more to do with where I live than the overall frequency of system abuse, but judging from my own experience, it is an exception that is more common than is usually reported. I and my local friends have encountered and spoken to quite a few people who abused the system to achieve the very results that I described. For my purposes, collecting unemployment is not even close to the same. The individuals I referred to did not have thousands of dollars in tools, because they had never held jobs.
It's not a myth, not as I outlined it. If I had said that most people on welfare were like this, sure, that would be an easily dispelled myth. I merely said that many such system abusers existed, and they do. I made no strong point about their numbers. Now I kinda want to though, since in my own experience, their numbers are higher than they ought to be. Any system will have difficulties in terms of consistency and dealing with unusual circumstances. The better designed and implemented systems will have fewer problems, but never zero.
The system which I have experience with seems to be poorly designed or implemented. Perhaps the one which affects you is better?
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Unpopular as it might make me, I am obliged to tell you that the statistics say you are wrong about why that man was elected, and the documented facts (allegations to the contrary notwithstanding) say you are wrong about what he will do.
Now, what some of his supporters might do, well, that's an entirely different kettle of fish
I suspect that if anyone were to suspend the exchange student program, it'd be the heavenly diarchs, and then (hopefully) only for a couple of years. Long enough for the whackjobs to be arrested/realize that the country's not actually on their side and go back to their hidey holes.
though
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It is interesting that you dismiss my observation write after siting the myth of WellFare-Kings/Queens. Harvey LeRoy "Lee" Atwater devised this trope as a dogwhistle. His target audience understood the kings to be deadbeat fathers who are black, criminals and never held a job, getting 20 thousand an year on welfare and black women who never held a job, getting paid to have babies, with no idea who the fathers are, getting paid 30 thousand an year because they have so many babies (I am of the opinion that welfare should include contraception so that people on welfare do not face the extra burden of children). The interesting thing is that those going on about these kings and queens of welfare cannot point to specific cases. If I did not know better, I would almost think that those claiming the existence of these queens and kings of welfare made up the claim for winning the votes of the racist working-poor whites.
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This is where we're reaching the limits of my orbital knowledge. AFAIK, a gravity assist requires that a spacecraft already be moving faster than the escape velocity of the planet you're using, and you just use the flyby to increase the energy of the spacecraft's orbit.
Teleporting stuff way up high could certainly give you more potential energy, which will be converted to kinetic energy as it falls back to Earth (Equestria). However, the force vector will always be pointing directly at the C.G. of the planet, so I don't know how you'd turn that directly-downward kinetic energy into the sideways kinetic energy needed for orbit. You can certainly do this on Earth, where when you roll a rock down a hill, the downward kinetic energy that the rock would get as it free-falls is converted to sideways kinetic energy by the hill, but I don't know if there's an equivalent in space. A rocket on the satellite itself will still act orthogonally to the path of the falling satellite, and it feels like it would still need to use just as much propellant to get itself moving sideways as it would just launching from the surface (minus having to punch through the atmosphere).
Edit to add everything in brackets, and further edited because I screwed up: [After thinking about it for a few minutes, you could still count the velocity of the surface of the earth in giving you some sideways velocity, i.e., if one of the princesses stood on the equator and teleported a satellite straight up, there would be a sideways velocity of around 463.83 m/s. Using this orbital calculator, and M=5.9722e24 kg, Rx=26,573,137 m (approximately Earth's radius plus GPS orbital altitude), Vy=463.83 m/s, and Ry=Rz=Vx=Vz=0, you get a highly-elliptical orbit with perigee q=192,061 m. Since the radius of the earth is 6,378,137 m, this is an ellipse that intersects with the surface, i.e., crashes.]
Making the huge assumption that I'm not wrong, you can still successfully handwave it away by declaring that the satellite can just be teleported to a new relative velocity--going back to OTPP, the relative velocity of Equestria and Earth would have been massive, and yet Lyra, Dale, and Kate didn't get smeared across the landscape. This is one of those things you just have to not think about too hard, I guess.
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The biggest problem isn't replacing the mile markers. (And no, they wouldn't just replace the signs on the current posts, because it'd be bonkers to have the random fractions that would come from doing that; they'd replace the posts at even-kilometer intervals.) The biggest problem is exit numbering. To keep the same exit numbers, and thus directions that people have been using for years, you'd either have to break the link between mile marker and exit, or force businesses to reprint their advertisements. The latter is the most likely, but it adds another constituency that's going to ask if it's worth it.
As far as energy for the changeover, I do have one anecdote I can add: I work as a structural engineer for the US government. If we have a single design code or document in metric in this office, I couldn't produce it for you if you took my family hostage. We could go get digital copies from ACI and AISC, but the printed ones we use every day are solidly in US Customary. I've never seen any of my coworkers, including those from overseas, do calculations in SI. As another commenter touched on (that you responded to in the last day, and I'm to lazy to dig up), all of the stuff we would purchase is in US Customary, and converting to use for our design work and back would be a massive pain in the ass.
The final thing is that I'm so used to using US Customary that I don't have a gut feel for SI measurements. The upshot is that as I went through a design, I'd be mentally trying to convert everything into US Customary to check if the numbers are in a reasonable range. That makes me mildly hostile to attempting to change over, especially since the biggest advantage of the SI system (base 10) isn't nearly as important as when we were using slide rules.
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yeah that must be a school thing. At mine, most people stay in dorms first year (the exception being the few who are local). A decent amount stay in pretty nice on campus apartments (not a dorm) for another year, but after that, most live off campus.
I think it'd be worth doing as well. But it's a massive logistical undertaking. The big problem would be the cultural shift. If the culture doesn't support it, it won't happen. It's also the U.S. ... so that isn't exactly easy. The legacy thing is a bit of a fallacy. you shouldn't switch because everything you have is english, but the longer you wait, the more english stuff you have. i went through the same thing with my kindle.
i'd say move the mile markers to make them nice in kilometers and I bet a lot of the larger distances are rounded anyway so they could probably just round as well. The big thing is that you can't just switch over in a short period. You need to let everyone establish new reference points. Even though I work with metric units daily, I don't have a good feel for them like I do english units. i can't estimate with them because I don't do a lot physically with them. You're probably a bit better, but only with units you use daily (i'm guessing mostly length).
i'm not sure if anyone would use local. I don't think it'd work well with travel. Military would make some sense in other countries, but well, the U.S. is the U.S.
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well to bad that you need to ride without a saddle for the full on hot horse experience.
But riding a hot pegasus is the same... I guess.
I wonder what Peggy is going to say about Silvers toy...
BTW is it one of the big ones that can squirt?
7718835 It's undergone major changes, it was going to be a oneshot but it developed into something longer... With an unneeded or wanted romance that keeps trying to happen.
DashStar Worth it for the name alone.
7718712 Nothing surprises me anymore.
That's interesting, I believe you, no need to check to confirm.
~Leonzilla
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Actually, yes, that would be correct.
The main reason it "sounds wrong" is just because it rarely comes up in the first place; there aren't that many irregular nouns in everyday English to begin with, even fewer of them that end in that "S" sound, and the need for their plural possessive form doesn't come up very often.
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Even those require the batteries to be changed every so often -- batteries will self-discharge due to their own internal chemistry even when they're not actively being used.
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Dude... way too much information.
Walabio:
I think everyone in Tornado Alley would demand H1B1s for as many Weather Ponies as Equestra can spare irregardless of the President's policy on foreign laborers.
It's almost as if she's been grooming a successor for the last six years.
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I wrote a BlogPost about UnicornTeleportation assuming as much accord with physics as possible, which means that I had to take general relativity into account —— ¡conservationLaws are a bitch!:
"¡The Physics of UnicornTeleportation!"
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Just keep teaching the birds more and more language until you can ask the bird and get an answer.
Walabio:
Hybrid teleportal rocket.
Satellite+rocket motor with guidance but no fuel tanks.
Teleport fuel in continuously during ascent.
Alternately...
Launch the teleportal, shove the satellite through it once at orbit.
Teleportal = Magic Mirror
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Unless they're Estee's Crystal geese, at which point everything is theirs all the time!
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We assume as few violations of physics as possible, so we must obey ConservationLaws and General Relativity.To orbit the Earth longer than an year, one must be 200 KM above sealevel because of airresistance. That means that the teleporter or teleportal must basically do the equivalent of throwing the satellite straight up at 2 KM/s. The object would promptly fall straight down though. An object 200 KM above sealevel has to move at 8 KM/s sideways to stay in orbit. Your idea is not without merit though:
everything we launch into space goes on bulletshaped rockets because of airresistance. We are limited by the size of our largest rockets. We could teleport an enormous nonærodynamic supermassive spacestation 200 KM up with a boosterpack of Saturn Ⅴs, which will immediately fire and accelerate the enormous massive nonærodymanic spacestation sideways to 8 KM/s.
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I would like to point out that I am against capitalizing her name.
Also, I highly recommend google docs. Decent spell checker, has highly functional uses such as having other people view the doc, and fimfiction lets you import chapters directly and it retains the text effects like italics n such.
7719956 I actually read a book with this idea, "Slow Freight" The teleporting took a couple years in transit, but worked over any distance, so they built an near light speed ship with it as they could just throw fuel at it nonstop from Earth instead of bringing it along so you could leave the engine running at full power at all times to both keep picking up speed and to get gravity. You could even rotate the crew.
Silver, please bring Meghan when you go back to Equestria, you two are so perfect together. :)
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That's one thing I never did, luckily. Somewhere with a lot of short runs, it might not be so bad, but longer runs I would think wouldn't be as profitable. Assuming that you had no trouble finding fares, that is.
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Actually, by pony costume standards, that might be considered a good costume.
I loved the sheep. Especially Shaun. I didn't know that there was a movie or a tv series, though.
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That's one I think that Silver would get wrong, to be honest.
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No, most cars don't and most ponies don't wear them. The helpers probably have seat-belt harnesses available to the ponies and are supposed to use them but probably don't. So when Silver's riding around in a car she's usually lying on the seat.
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Hey, its true in the non-sexual sense, too.
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Oh, something like this she knows. Other things she's more oblivious to (like Cedric's sack). And she's not really a nympho; that's more Cayenne's territory.
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I'll try to remember that if I ever get Netflix.
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I could see the ponies ultimately importing some actual horses to Equestria and riding them.
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Just like the dog, he's not really sure how to cope with this. He knows something's not like it should be but he can't quite figure out what.
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MIT probably put in a research request, and Twilight replied by scribbling across the top "You'll doom us all. Application rejected."
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It's true! Even when it's not like that. Horses are very warm.
That's fairly accurate. She's holding the reins around her hooves, but otherwise, just like that.
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I'm kind of surprised there isn't one. That, and Princess Luna. Knighty needs to get on the ball
Something that Silver Glow and Meghan are sure to try out, of course.
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I'm getting 'though' and 'thought' wrong so often I'm now searching the document for them before publishing (as of yesterday's chapter).
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Polarized wouldn't be a bad idea. Only problem with polarization I've found recently is that I can't use my phone in landscape mode when I've got my shades on.
Goldplating might be really cheap in Equestria, since they've got piles of the stuff.
Not necessarily. It depends on what other things the ponies have to offer. Even if we assume the absolute worst of President Trump, he would still be interested in the exchange programs if there was something in it for him. And there's unlikely to be a widespread resentment of the ponies: there's no history of conflict with them, they aren't taking American jobs or flooding the market with cheap electronics; and they're not very likely to be terrorists, simply because they have no conflict with the US.
That's not to say that there aren't people who would hate them (like the angry man at Walgreen's), but it wouldn't be as widespread or systematic as other forms of hatred, I don't think.
And there is a reason that all the long-term ponies like Silver Glow have federal helpers.
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Overall, it's my understanding that the welfare system in general (and I'm using that very broadly) has about a 3% fraud rate, which isn't all that bad. No matter what they system, there are going to be people who abuse it--there used to be a loophole in Michigan where college students qualified for food stamps pretty much regardless of their actual situation, and there were some people who took advantage of that, and now it's a lot harder to get them.
And I kind of tend to look at it from the other side, I guess, because I work part-time with developmentally disabled adults and they get food stamps, and a lot of times by the end of the month we're getting really creative trying to feed them and stay on-budget.
There are phone numbers you can call when you see what you think is an abuse of the system. I don't know what they are off the top of my head, but one of my former co-workers called when she caught some people buying soda with food stamps and them pouring them out in the parking lot so they could return the empty cans for the deposit.
I'm not entirely sure that they would, as long as it wasn't to the point of angry mobs out in the streets. After all, in Equestria monster attacks aren't unheard of, and so they might not expect the US (or any other country) to be any safer.
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That actually makes a lot of sense, because I assume if it didn't, the satellite would presumably just set up a decaying orbit and then crash.
Well, if we're going with teleporting, the other option would be to have a Princess hold on to it, teleport to a different body (like the moon) which was moving at the required relative speed, pick up that extra boost, then teleport it to space where they want it. I guess in a large part it would depend on how momentum is conserved when teleporting. We know that it is to some extent, since when Twilight teleported everyone away from the dragons, they came out running. But that was a short teleport, so. . . .
But some of their injuries were caused because the spell hadn't been set up for a two extra people, so it didn't dampen out all their movement like it should have (that, and the taser charge messing it up). And in that canon, anyway, if you don't account for relative velocity, you can splatter across the landscape.
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My guess is that they would put kilometer numbers on them first, because that could be done fairly quickly, and the markers are only used for reporting accidents and so on.
Pennsylvania had to renumber the turnpike exits a few years back (I don't know how many) and for a long time, the signs gave both the old and new numbers, like "Exit 136, old exit 12." So you could do the same with that, too.
The way I see it, though, is that we're globalizing, and we're one of the lone holdouts using the old system, so it makes sense to go to the global system. And in some industries we already think more in metric than standard anyway--the vast majority of my tools are in metric at work, and a lot of specs are given in metric, and I've made mistakes switching between the two.
I'm not saying it would be quick and easy. There would be a changeover period, and for some people it would be a lot of work. And you're right, for some people it would take them a long time to get the sense of the new measurements, and some people probably never would. But our kids would, and their kids, and so on.
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Which is why we've still got pennies and paper dollar bills, too.
I would assume that ultimately they would be moved, but for the interim you could just put new stickers on them. That's what they did with the stop signs in town--they needed to be more reflective or something, and rather than replace them, they put new stickers over them. I assume that when they need to be replaced in the future, they will be replaced with new stop signs, but for now that's good enough.
Actually, diameter (nuts and bolts) and volume (oil, trans fluid, etc.). We hardly ever need to worry about specific length.
I'm not sure how police are set up in other countries, so I don't know what jurisdiction police have in, say, France. My thought was that there might be some countries where the police have more federal powers, but I don't know if that's actually the case.
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Yeah, bareback is the best way to go, for the full experience.
We are still talking about horseback riding, right?
No. I didn't even know that was a thing. What do you put in it?
Actually, I'm not sure I want to know.