September 15 [Relaxed Thursday]
September 15
I snuggled against Aric until he woke up, and he said it was too early to be awake but that didn't stop him from running his hand along my back and over my dock, and I climbed on top of him and told him that he wouldn't have to do anything if he didn't want to, but he did want to and he had an advantage because I needed my hooves to stand on but since he was just lying on his back he could use both of his hands.
Since I didn't have a lab in the morning and my first class wasn't until after lunch, it was kind of tempting to just stay in bed and maybe snooze a little bit and have sex again later, but it was also a good day to go on a longer flight, and that was another good way to start the day. So me and Aric went downstairs and he made me some oatmeal, just so I wouldn't have to fly on an empty stomach.
He also filled up my camelback while I was eating, and then we went back to his room and he helped me put on my flight gear. Then I called the airplane directors and told them that I was going flying, and they gave me permission.
I went out his bedroom window which was a little bit trickier now that I was wearing all my flight gear, and stopped at the bird feeder long enough to get a mouthful of sunflower seeds. Aric didn't throw anything at me this time which was kind of disappointing.
It was partially cloudy, but the temperature was nice and there wasn't much wind. It was a very good day to go on a long flight, so I headed west.
I kept about seven hundred feet up and followed Main Street all the way to the 131 Highway, then I turned northwest to get to the Kal-Haven trail.
I'd planned to cross over it a few miles outside of Kalamazoo and then follow it for a bit, but after I'd flown a couple of miles out of town I remembered that it curved pretty far north at first, and I wasn't gonna be crossing it for a few miles. I should have remembered that.
So when I got to the next road, I turned due north and followed it a little ways until I could see the path of the trail, and then I angled off on a diagonal course to intercept it.
I didn't have time to go all the way to South Haven and back again, so when I got to Gobles I turned around to head back to campus. But I didn’t want to take the same way back, so I decided that I'd fly due east and when I got to the 131 Highway, I'd follow that south.
The clouds had been breaking up the whole time I was flying west, and there were hardly any left in the sky when I turned around, although it was still a bit hazy from all the moisture that the clouds had left behind.
I should have brought my saddlebags, 'cause then I could stop at Meijer and buy some groceries but I was limited to what would fit in my camelback and the pockets on my flight vest, and I didn't feel like spending a lot of time at the store and not coming back with much of anything and have to do it again a couple of days later.
There wasn't anything too interesting on the ground once I passed Kendall—lots of fields and some forests. And I was kind of surprised that there was a lot of corn still standing, because it looked like it was ripe and ready to be harvested, but I guess that human farmers would know better than I did, and maybe their corn kept on getting bigger.
When I got to the 131 Highway, I made a sharp turn and stayed right over it, on the western side, and I slowly started to lose altitude. By the time I'd passed the 131 bus Highway entrance, I was just over a thousand feet, so I banked off towards Kalamazoo and took a direct path back to campus and landed on the boardwalk on Pebble Beach.
There wasn't anyone waiting for the showers when I went in, which was nice. And I didn't think that anybody would be coming, either, since anyone who wanted to take a shower would have already, so I took my time.
Even so, by the time I got dried off I was a little bit early for lunch, and I suppose I could have read some of the Bible or written in my journal or read a little bit ahead in my math book, but instead I just went to lunch.
I was glad that people tended to not want to change things, 'cause I found Cedric and Leon and Trevor at the same table that they'd always sat at, and they still had lots of food left, so I went and got my lunch and then went over to their table.
Cedric had to move his tray over, 'cause he'd kind of pushed it off to the side, but he didn't mind, and he even put mine on the table for me even though I could have done it.
Leon asked if I was taking another poetry class and I shook my head. There hadn't been any offered, or else I would have. I said that I was taking a physics class and a math class and an astronomy class and they were all fun so far. And he thought that I was crazy—I don't know why everyone thinks that.
Trevor said he was taking Shakespeare and that was a kind of poetry, and I agreed. I told them about seeing Gusty in Stratford and they all thought that sounded pretty amazing. And Cedric was impressed when I told them that we'd had lunch with Uzo and Zelda, who were both pretty famous I guess. I said that Gusty knew them from when she had acted in Orange is the New Black.
Leon said that he didn't like that show because it reminded him too much of his time in prison, and Cedric crossed his arms and said that a charter school wasn't a prison, and Leon said it wasn't a very nice charter school, because you had to take a bus there instead of a limousine which meant it counted.
Cedric said that when he was working with Habitat for Humanity, he'd met Jimmy Carter, who used to be president. I wanted to know if all the former presidents went on to build houses and he said that only the classy ones did. And I asked him if he'd seen Aquamarine at all over summer break and he sighed and said that nothing had ever worked out, but they'd written to each other, and he'd discovered that he sort of liked writing letters.
I was kinda expecting Leon to say something sarcastic, but he didn't.
Before we had to go to class, Cedric asked me if I was still planning on coming to the football game, and I said that I was gonna come with Peggy and Christine and Sean, and we were gonna take Cobalt instead of the bus, because it would be more fun.
He told me to make sure that someone stayed sober enough to drive back home, and if I didn't think that anyone was, to take the campus bus or else find him and he'd get me on the team bus, which was nice of him. I didn't think that Peggy was that unresponsible, but if she was I wouldn't get stranded in Grand Rapids or have to fly back home at night.
We walked across campus together, until we had to split up before we crossed Academy Street, and I continued on to the Dow building and took the stairs all the way up to the top floor.
I still hadn't figured out who I wanted to sit with, so I picked a seat that was in the middle where I had a good view.
Professor Miller started out by telling us about extrasolar planets, and said that everyone in the class was old enough to know that there were lots of planets around other stars but only twenty years ago, nobody had found a single one yet, even though most people knew that they were out there.
She started off by saying that she was going to tell us about planetary orbits, and how planets orbited the sun, usually, and she looked right at me when she said that. Well, it wasn't my fault that Discord had broken our system, and we had to fix it on our own.
So she explained how normally a geocentric system wouldn't work at all, and back in ancient times people started to think that it was wrong, because in order to make the observations fit the theory, they had to put in little epicycles where planets and other objects had to move in loops on their orbits. And then Copernicus said that the sun was in the middle and things circled it on their own, but his circle orbits didn't quite work, either, so he had to have epicycles, too. And so then Kepler had better observations and he figured out that the planets actually move in an ellipse rather than a circle.
She said that Kepler didn't know why they were ellipses and not some other shape, but then Newton came along and explained it with math, and figured out that he could derive Kepler's laws, and she said that was why he'd invented calculus.
I wondered if ponies had had to invent calculus sooner, because on Earth everything worked without help, but it didn't in Equestria. And that worked for a while, until they had to extend Newton's Laws with General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, and that one day the Theory of Everything would explain it all.
And she said that now that we'd made contact with aliens—and she looked at me again—some of these theories were kind of in flux, and there were a lot of scientists working to figure it all out but there weren't any firm answers yet, and it was beyond the scope of this class anyway.
At the very end she gave us a formula which she said was very important because we'd be using it a lot, and it was a little bit awkward but there was a way to make it shorter using astronomical units and a symbol that meant the mass of the sun. And she showed us a quick way to approximate the orbit of Jupiter using her simplified equation, and then class was over.
It was really weird when you thought about how the Earth was actually spinning around and also zooming around the sun, but it wasn't that different than drifting along on a cloud. If you just looked at the cloud itself, you'd think you weren't moving at all, then you'd look over the edge and see that you'd drifted a long way away from where you'd started, even though you thought you hadn't moved.
When I got back to our room, I asked Peggy if she wanted to go play with Caleb and Lindy and Trinity until dinnertime, and she thought that sounded like fun, so we walked over to their house, and I introduced Peggy to them, and they all wanted to go hunting Pokemons, so we went looking around the neighborhood. Trinity convinced Peggy to put the game on her portable telephone, too, and then when we spotted a Squirtle she helped Peggy catch it. And then Peggy caught a Weedle all on her own.
Once we were done hunting them, I gave Trinity a ponyback ride back to her house, and then we walked back to campus. Peggy said that she liked all three of them, and that she thought I made good friends. And she said someday when she had kids of her own she hoped they were like that and I said I thought that they probably would be.
We'd stayed out longer than I meant to and so I didn't have time to go to dinner before my meeting with Pastor Liz, so I snacked on some of the hay that was in my makeshift haybox, and then I went to the chapel and met her in her office.
We talked about all the prophets that I'd read since the last time I saw her, and she asked if I thought I'd be done with the Old Testament by our meeting next week. I said I thought that I might, because I didn't have much farther to go, and I said that I was sorry I hadn't finished it over the summer like I should have, but she said it was okay, and I was doing really really well and she was very proud of me.
Since I was back on campus now, I had time to go back to my room and get my glaive before going down to practice fight, but I was still a little bit late because a couple of people stopped me as I walked across the quad and asked me where I was going, and so I had to explain that I was going to practice fighting, and by the fifth time I was getting a little impatient because I knew I was late and so I wasn't going to get as much practice, and so I just told him to follow me and find out, and he did. And then a couple other people kind of joined in and when I finally got to the little park I had a rump herd trailing along behind me.
Most of them stuck around through our warmup, and a couple stayed through the whole thing and Stellan tried to get them to join in, but they didn't. And Kennith and Seth and Keith were all there, and some other new people that I didn't know. And when me and Stellan started actually fighting with our padded weapons almost everyone else stopped to watch.
I think he would have beat me in a real fight, 'cause he'd gotten pretty good at defending against my glaive, and kept me far enough back most of the time that I couldn't have used my hooves even if I'd wanted to. I might have had him if it had been a serious fight and I'd been able to dive at him but he'd probably thought about that more since we'd practiced that, and he might have come up with better defenses.
By the time we were done, I was limping 'cause he'd got my right fore-knee, and I had a bunch of new bruises, but so did he.
So I flew back to my dorm but I had to walk into our room and Peggy noticed that I was limping, too, and she asked what had happened, so I told her all about fighting and she said that I should have told her so that she could watch next time.
I snacked on a little bit more hay, then I went and took another shower to rinse off, and I was hoping that the hot water would also help make my knee feel better but it didn't really help at all, so I was probably going to have a limp for a couple of days as it healed. At least it wasn't a wing-sprain; that would have kept me down for a week or more and even after that I wouldn't be able to do any serious flying for a while as it healed the rest of the way. We'd lost one of our weathermares for a whole spring after she crash-landed in rocks and sprained her wing.
I'd decided that I would stay in our room tonight, and it was kind of strange how I spent the rest of the evening writing in my journal and Peggy was on her computer looking at her Facebook and also talking to one of her snowboarding friends, but when we both finally decided that it was time for bed, I felt like we'd had a good evening together even though we hadn't talked all that much. I think sometimes it's really nice when you're so comfortable with a person that just spending time together makes you happy, even if you both do your own thing.
It was a little bit hard to get comfortable in bed, because no matter how I lay down, after a while my knee would decide it didn't like it, and I'd have to try something else, and I finally just laid on my side and ignored it when it started to protest.
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Fascinating! Did she get an autograph?
Also I think it's adorable that she's let down by Aric not chasing her away from the bird feeder.
Loving the story so far, just one comment. When Silver is talking about the play she saw, you have the line "...we told them that we'd had lunch with [ACTRESSES]..." Looks like an artifact left over from outlining / editing?
Also:
Hadn't talked, right?
Think I saw one like this earlier in the chapter, too.
they
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Not to mention why would ponies even consider base 10? They don't have 10 of anything? Binary or its derivatives would make much more sense to them.
Oh, and add to that, our gallons, quarts, pints, ounces for liquid measure and pounds to ounces for weight are all multiples/divisions of 2.
Jimmy Carter is indeed a real awesome guy, aside from the whole participating in the 3 Mile Island coverup.
He's lucky he survived his cancer. Many didn't, despite what the lying shills and cronies say.
(Dr. Kaku was so handsome when he was younger (*°∀°)=3 )
Considering at this point humans have confirmation of parallel dimensions, I guess string theory packs a lot more punch than it does IRL.
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It's actually not as inconceivable as you might think, if you look at it from a pony's perspective. They have four hooves and a tail. That'd get you base 5 easily. And if you add in a friend, well, there's your base 10.
I don't think it's possible for Silver to get anymore adorable unless she somehow managed to morph into Fluttershy.
Silver and Cedric should take a weekend to visit Aquamarine together. By day they could hang out and do fun stuff together. By night she could complain about how thin the hotel walls are and lament that she didn't bring her own human for sexy fun times...
Really enjoying this story, probably near the end though.....233 MORE TO GO!?
In the Admiral's series Onto the Pony Planet he has Twilight bitching about humans using base 10 instead of a sensible base 12. Somepony points out to her that Unicorns used to use base 4. I've seen arguments about binary (base 2) being more useful for early computers with either Octal (base 8) or Hexidecimal (base 16 (if you've ever played Traveler or Megatraveler)) being useful compromises for humans. There's a video about base 12 on YouTube under Schoolhouse Rock.
Base 10 came in from the Middle East. The ancient Mayans used base 20 except they had 360 (20 x 18) instead of 400 for their first multiple. School House Rock Zero My Hero for base 10 & if anyone's kid is having trouble w multiplication I recommend the whole series. The parts of speech & Mister Morten Walks are probably mildly helpful if you are learning English & more so for Ponies (if you go w the whole "Ponies burst into song" thing)
We're stuck with the year we've got but Ponies probably use either 13 months of 28 days (364) + the Summer Sun Celebration being an intercalary day or 6 30 day months alternating with 6 31 day months (366 days because Celestia said so). IMO, the Ponies probably don't bother with Leap Year & lump it in with Human Nonsense.
7730673 Hehehe, I had a chuckle when I read that :D
This sentence is a bit funny.
It's kinda weird having Silver just start Uni, as I finish for the year.
The show hasn't admitted to being on a planet but the school chalkboard and stained glass windows imply it.
Was that a globe Spike grabbed in his growth spurt?
For all we know meeting aliens pushes the Theory of Everything further into the future because now it has more to explain.
In Twilight Makes First Contact (an unfinished fanfic) Pony Magic is misinterpreted as super advanced science. (Clarke's law flipped on its head)
Not sure if the human scientists literally pulled their hair speaking with Twilight.
The Artist Now Known As "[ACTRESSES]"?
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Actually, if this story is an offshoot or AU of the world in "Celestia Sleeps In" and "Onto The Pony Planet," then Equestria isn't an alternate universe, just another, distant planet.
Still, I think the discovery of 'magic,' and whatever underlying force supports it, would certainly set a 'Theory of Everything' back a wee bit.
Physics, Maths and Astronomy are good to take together, ebcause not only do you get the bits where they use teh same stuff, meaning you have core credits and a few dangling bits, but you can also use the differences to keep the arguments going.
Dont forget, we make Extensive use of Epicyclic theory.
These days, we call it Fourier Transform.
Roaming, roaming, roaming. Given the Square cube law, does this mean as a Monster in DnD linearly scales, it only needs a Linear increase in Area to feed itself, which is why the Linear increase in the Square root of random walking gives such a good match to Random Encounter Table, if CR is proportinal to probability and vice versa? As in Silver could map new things found for distance flew and put that forward for her end of year?
Hear ye! Hear ye! The great Silver as spoken! Peggy shall have one children only! One is the number of children she will have, the number of children she will have is one. Not zero, not two; three is prohibited.
And it shall be a girl. 'Cause boy are dumb.
7730965 And the first human system was in base 60.
Which is why we've got 60 minutes to the hour & 60 seconds to the minute. Up through the Middle Ages you had 12 hours day & 12 hours night (at least in some places) which means you had different length hours every day & different length hours for day & night.
This is why they timed things by the length of time it took to say common prayers -less variance. I can see it now: The speed of light is 500 times around the world per Pater Noster
Where is Napoleon & the metric system when you need them? 
There should be a comma between "and if I didn't think that anyone was" and "to take the campus bus" as otherwise the sense is confused.
Is is Kennith or Kenneth, I don't remember?
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While that makes a bit of a stretch, but then the equal logic for making it base 6 if you throw in their head. Oh, but now we also have pegasi with their two wings, so they either start with base 6 or they jump to base 8. Not to mention, there are griffons with their four talons on each hand as well as four claws in their feet, dragons with much the same--some of them with wings and some without, and minotaurs with their four fingers. Pretty much every race in MLP has a reason to go binary or one of its derivavtives. With Celestia being the Great Compromiser, that would be even more reason to eventually migrate the pony society to either a base 4, 8, or even 16.
Now we humans carried over base 60 from the Babylonians, so it's possible for some other base to be a holdover from an earlier time, but that alternate would be more likely to be base 6 or 12 for the same reasons mentioned above. Unfortunately, it's quite a stretch of logic to justify our base 10 in their world.
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Might actually make things easier and magic can fill in some of the problems in the current models.
Dark Energy? Oh you mean mana, yeah that makes up 80% of the universe alright, oh you don't need a particle accelerator to detect it, just a horn. Dark Matter, oh that would be the stuff Discord decided he didn't like the sight of and made disappear, yeah there was a lot of it.
From what I remember of Pony planet Equestria is in the same universe as Earth just on another planet (so both are effected by the same basic physical laws, if they weren't then there wouldn't be much point Silver learning human maths and physics if Equestria has different fundamental rules) which by itself means we need to throw out relativity as ponies getting here means the speed of light isn't the maximum speed limit any more or Silver would have to worry about her family being dead for thousands of years before she got home.
7731903 In HG Wells' When the Sleeper Wakes Base 12 is used in the future. I suppose so 'dozens' becomes a round number.
I remember having lazy thursdays. For a quarter I didn't have anything on thursdays. It was really nice. I love the astronomy professor. Yes it's silver's fault that ponies broke earth physics.
Because they don't understand.
personally I think so, but not for this reason. I'm not quite sure how Celestia and Luna raise the sun and the mood, because flat out stopping it isn't really a valid option. My current guess is that the moons orbit and the earths orbital velocity are decaying and they're maintaining it and the whole raising of the sun/moon is more ceremonial than literal.
7730965 binary is still used by computers with octal and hex being shorthand.
7730762 possibly base three. You start with binary and add in zero when it's discovered. My guess would be either base 2,3,4,6 or higher (pegasi wing dexterity would allow them to count on feathers)
7731175 taking higher level math classes with engineering can be infuriating. Some engeneering methodology and notation is ... interesting. I'm currently learning the unholy abomination of notation that engineers use for systems of differential equations.
Though I see it's already fixed.
The Theory of Everything!
World building!
Yes, but we already knew about Aric and Meghan.
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I've always assumed that sense they control
Their sun they've set the year and the sun to some nice sensible whole number.
I prefer four 91 day seasons, with two months of 30 and one of 31 so that the middle of the season is literally in the middle of the season.
I can deal with the ponies' crazy geocentric system, but it's the corn (maize) that blows my mind. Where the hey did they get maize from? That domesticated crop made a very, very eccentric journey from a glorified grass in south-eastern Mexico to the rigidly hybridized super-crop that dominates the Corn Belt. There's parallel evolution and parallel development, and then there's crazy-contingent weirdness.
Also, Silver, the 'corn' you know probably isn't proper field corn. I can't imagine why ponies, with their collective sweet tooths, would bother with field corn instead of just planting the hell out of sweet-corn. Field corn is what you feed to livestock that can't talk back to you about how nasty it is. I'd think that the Confederated Milchcow's Union would throw a general strike if they were fed that stuff. And field corn generally needs to sit an extra month, month and a half in the field. Harvest lags harvest by a week, week and a half.
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One of the things I often do when I'm writing--especially if I don't have internet access--is put things in brackets so that I can look them up later and fill in the blanks. And since I don't always write in order, there are often whole sections which are bracket-notes in the first version of the draft.
Obviously, they aren't supposed to make their way into the final draft. And in fact, I usually highlight them so that that doesn't happen [Open Office and gDocs both let you highlight text].
So to writers out there--one of the worst things is when you're on a roll, but then you get to a pesky detail that you have to look up . . . you can go and do it, and risk losing your place, or you can just toss in a little note about what's supposed to be there and put it in later. Just remember to catch them all before you publish.
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When you've got a thing going . . .
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Correction made; thank you!
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Or any other base that counts something that they do have (like 12, which started off as 4). Although IIRC, there were some human cultures that had odd bases that weren't necessarily counting something that people had.
Except for fifths. Now they've been metricized, but they were originally a fifth of a gallon.
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It's my understanding that there were no peer-reviewed studies that found a significant release of radioactive material from 3 Mile Island. Admittedly, that isn't the same as saying that there was no release.
Magic talking ponies would definitely alter the research landscape after their arrival.
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Or if unicorns came up with numbers first, four hooves and a horn.
Bases 4, 5, and 6 are pretty easy to justify; base 3 is also reasonable (three points to a hoof). Any larger base could be a convenient multiple of a smaller one (8, 10, 12, etc.)
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I don't think it's possible for Silver to get anymore adorable unless she somehow managed to morph into Fluttershy.
She's kinda got the same manestyle. . . .
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There probably won't be more than 400 chapters total. And it'll wrap up by early March of next year.
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They could really have it be anything they wanted. Maybe they only have 288 days, and each month/moon is exactly 24 days long--12 up and 12 down. Even if it was 'off' to begin with, they could probably 'fix' their lunar cycle over time.
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It should have been 'hadn't'
Are you in one of those countries which is upside down?
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Pinkie Pie implied it in the Hearth's Warming episode, too.
I assume that's what it was supposed to be.
I would think that if an actual, alien race ever made contact with us, it would push a lot of scientific work into the future pretty quickly. They might have a simple explanation for something we're struggling with, after all. Like if hundreds of years ago, aliens had said 'the reason you're having trouble with your orbital mechanics is because the planets orbit the sun due to gravity.'
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Even though it shares a lot of worldbuilding with CSI/OPP, it's not the same universe, and I've been thinking of it in this story as a parallel universe. That hasn't really come up before, but it might now that Silver is taking an astronomy class.
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Don't ever take math and economics together, though, because in economics they reverse the graphs.
Maybe the square cube law doesn't apply in Equestria. Or maybe monster biology is different than non-monster biology.
Heh, that would be an interesting paper. "The diminishing returns of increasing territory."
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Silver Glow the prophet.
(also correction made)
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I suspect that in the pony world, you still have this in general, but do use specific times for other things, like cooking.
That would be awesome. Somebody needs to figure out that measuring system.
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Corrections made; thank you!
It's supposed to be Kennith, although I can't swear that I've spelled it that was consistently.
(That's one I'm sure about, because I recycled a number of names from another, older project of mine)
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That actually would be a problem in a place like Equestria, especially if different cultures were mingling. So maybe pegasi who lived near the griffons did count in base 8, and had to change once there was a standard. Or maybe not all of them have, even now. IIRC, there are still obvious holdouts in some other languages (I seem to recall French kind of counts in a different base).
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Yeah, I think that odds are it would make things easier because there would be things we didn't know that the ponies did, and vice versa.
In CSI/OPP, yes, it's the same universe. In this story, I prefer to think of it as parallel universes, and there probably are some physics and such that won't quite work the same on both sides; that having been said, most of the principles of math and thermodynamics work the same in both universes. Presumably organic chemistry does, too, since Silver Glow can breath the air and eat food on Earth.
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I can't recall having a weekday without classes, but there were certainly some Tuesdays/Thursdays that were pretty lazy. Set design, for example, was a pretty simple class.
I did like that theory, but in canon they've stopped multiple times. I suppose that can be ignored as 'cartoon physics' but still, it's canonical.
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Or, Twilight makes Earth Physics her Bitch.
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(or maybe it will be Applejack)
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Silly, those are her friends-with-benefits, which are totally different from a rump herd.
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91 could work, although I personally think that if they could, they'd try to hit a round number in whatever base they're using. Emphasis on the if; odds are if they have to add/remove more than a few dozen days they're going to start to run into other problems, no matter how good their weather control is (and they've have to do it over a period of centuries, too).
It's funny, because Julius and Augustus 'added' a day to their months, but they had to take it from somewhere else. Celestia could literally add a day to the year.
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Maybe everything on Ancient Aliens is true, and the ancient aliens were actually the ponies. That would explain some of the Greek myths, as well.
Could be that they do plant sweet corn exclusively. Although who knows; maybe they prefer the taste of field corn, or it works better for baking than sweet corn. Horses like eating some strange things (like nettles), so why wouldn't ponies also have different tastes than we do?
7730936 Aquamarine's an earth mare. I doubt they make walls thick enough. And it's a good thing Cedric's a big tough football-player, 'cause it might mean he gets out of there with an intact pelvis.
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Yeah, she's got to be gentle with her football player.
I'm not quite sure, but something is missing from this run-on sentence (which I realize is a Silverism). Either it is missing "and I didn't feel like", or something needs to be tacked onto the very end, like "and I feel like spending a lot of time at the store and not coming back with much of anything and have to do it again a couple of days later isn't very smart."
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Should have been didn't feel like.
Correction made; thank you!
I love it when I read a fic and it confirms my existing headcanon. So far, that's four major headcanons you've reaffirmed for me: Discord breaking the pony solar system,
) eating fish, ponies enjoying social bathing, and the casual Equestrian approach to sex. Either you need to get out of my head, or give me the key so I can get out of yours. 
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Me, too. The only thing better is when the show does it.*
One of the two most obvious ways it works like it works; that one’s a gimme.
That’s one that I forget sometimes isn’t canon
Seriously, though, in Greek myth Pegasus was the son of Poseidon, so it makes sense that they’d have fish in their diets.
That one’s canon as far as I’m concerned.
I’d say of the three tribes, the pegasi are generally the most casual, since they don’t pass down lands or titles. In general, though, there doesn’t seem to be any social taboo against it that we’ve seen in canon (not that that’s necessarily a topic they’d broach. . . .)
Oh, no, there is no key. You’re stuck here forever.
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*One of my stories stated Twilight didn’t like cheese, some years before we all learned that she’s afraid of quesadillas because they’re too cheesy.
I'm still here, the story is still good : )
I like how Silver chose her classes, it would be fun to watch how she'll break all three of the teachers : ) With geocentric aliens, fancy unicorn math and hooves on experience in thermodynamics. I really hope she'll not get points deduced for breaking physics : )
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While nothing related to sex is ever talked about for obvious reasons, it's notable that you can have a pair of obvious lesbians and literally nopony will even mention anything in-universe. We need more representation like that: a character happens to be gay and nobody except the audience ever draws attention to that because the show doesn't care about romantic relationships at any other time so why should it do so now?
[quote)And he thought that I was crazy—I don't know why everyone thinks that.