First contact has been made, successfully, and the strange equine creature known as Twilight Sparkle had assured us that we would be welcome to cement relations with Earth with an embassy in Canterlot.
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Oh yes, Equestria can put on an impressively vicious defensive war, they're some of the few who can win without ever crossing their own borders, simply due to inflicting hideously disproportionate casualties.
Moon Dancer is the queen of background ponies.
Ask Philip: Do you think you will miss magic when you go back home?
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I am reminded of the Mongols trying to invade
ChinaJapan and dying in a tornado. Twice. And Equestria has pegasi who can do just that, nevermind earth ponies who can throw around truck-sized boulders or reduce them to gravel, whichever is needed, and unicorns who see the laws of physics as mere guidelines.Equestria is quite a dangerous nation to invade when they're not being hamstrung by plot to let Twilight be the hero.
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Related: my only true MLP OC as of now is General Winter, Hurricane's true second-in-command written out of history for looking way too much like she was on the side of the Windigoes the whole time. Seriously, imagine the standard Russian defensive tactics of destroying supply lines and scorched-earth-with-your-own-earth, then apply it to a society with weather-controlling magic.
In more modern times, there's also the fact that Celestia can just casually turn off the sun in the middle of diplomatic talks to remind everycreature of who's holding all the cards here.
I'm pretty sure that either the President would allow them to stay or the equestrian royalty would Riley and Saffron are bound to become well liked and dear to the princesses and I doubt they'd ever bring themselves to rip their magic from their bodies and force them to live distressingly short lives (i.e. send them home).
To the Ree Family: when the time comes how do you think you'll answer the offer to stay in equestria? Younger bodies, magic and centuries to live without losing on the technology for you're bringing it here.
Given all the magical mishaps, maybe its mroe of a pointer to how accessible and effective the counter spells are that there isnt a specialist available, never mind school etc, specifically for magical accident effetcs that they could class Rily in with?
If Spike is that large now, how large are Smoulder and Ember etc, and has there been any more Dragon Egg Swarms since Fluttershy tried to take one to be Angels freind?
Riley has no idea what she is in for, if you remember the ponyville room school house had orbital equations on the blackboard. I imagine that the lack of technology is a cultural blind spot for the human ambassador .The ponies don't have mass produced post industrial tech so they must be backwards, where as a pony foal that is moving into apprenticeship as a very wide understanding of a many subjects for example a human learns maybe calculus if they will need it. where every pony at the basic level of education knows it. as well as a bunch of college level subjects .
Calling it something is gonna strand them in equestria
Assuming they don't naturally just go native to the point they won't want to leave
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Eh, I'd be careful assuming Cheerilee is teaching calculus to 4th grade students. Remember that there's just the one school for all of Ponyville so she has to educate _all_ the grades of students. Naturally there's going to be some leftovers from one curriculum to another when you have a single building with (apparently) one room to it. If the population was even smaller, there would be multiple grades seated together at the same time.
Awww...poor Riley. What kid would ever want to go home after discovering and learning magic? Or most adults for that matter? Wonder if there is an incident brewing behind the scenes. America is a patriarchy vs the matriarchy of the equines, peaceful and ageless vs violent and short lived. It’s so interesting to see how you blend their cultures together
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30 years so schooling starts at 20 then 30 years till adult hood / adolescence thus orbital mechanics is not beyond the realm of possibility not 4th graders learning calc 4 but a 28 or 29 year learning is not outside the possibility
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I believe that was Japan, actually, and incidentally the origin of the term kamikaze, "divine wind".
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Blar, you're right. Corrected.
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Things like patriarchy versus matriarchy would only really matter for immigrants, and we seem to be a little while off from that becoming an issue. Equestria's matriarchy is also solely focused at the absolute top, and below the Princesses everything seems to be equal opportunity.
Some Americans might grumble at Equestria being an absolute monarchy, but as with most things that happen across borders, people aren't likely to be bothered beyond a few minor grumblings.
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As an aside, orbital calc does seem silly when everyone knows Celestia and Luna move the Sun and Moon because apparently they won't move on their own... which kinda goes against everything known about orbital calc.
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I imagine the planet Equestria is on or the sun and moon have some oddities that make a solar system like ours impossible. Wouldn't even be surprised if it was all literally created. Anyway, they'll probably still know about it, maybe from observing other objects in space (if they can see anything beyond Luna's stars (can she actually move them? I don't think that was ever said in canon)).
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That's the puzzler, isn't it? Does Equestria even have a more complex solar system beyond one planet and one moon? The lack of anything would make it unlikely to even bother studying something esoteric like orbital functions when your only visible examples are the Sun and Moon.
Would be a real kicker if their magic-based telescopes were a magnitude more sensitive than our best ones so they could directly view star systems and their planets. Probably confuse ponies though because that Sun doesn't orbit the planet.
In this situation, I'd have gone with "root nine," though deliberately going for the basic calculation is a great dig at the teacher who can't look past her own muzzle.
Careful now. I'm pretty sure that's a good way to get a Midnight Sparkle scenario.
Ah, the frustration of learning that you didn't even need to make the trip in the first place. At least Spike provides an express route.
Given airships, I don't think jets would impress Equestria. Sure, they may be faster, but they require a lot of absent infrastructure, and when you measure your lifespan in centuries, what's the rush?
I do have to wonder how much gets covered over the course of decades of schoolwork. Riley may still qualify for ninth grade... out of fifty.
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Given the vastly different timescales involved, I can only imagine how the Equestrians would react to a new ambassador every four to eight years. To the pony on the street, it would seem like indecision at best and madness at worst.
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That goes double when you realize that we're taking about kingdoms. Ambassadors changing due to succession doesn't happen often.
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Assuming the age discrepancy can be solved for, living in equestria probably wouldn't be too bad.
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"Solving" the age discrepancy would mean either taking decades from their lifespan or creating older ponies with decades more as adults to live. Not ideal either way.
I fail to see how it'd be bad even with it, though. Having more time to live is something no money in the world can buy yet.
It could just be that mares are rarely in the mood. After all, Earth horse mares are only sexually receptive when they are in estrus.
A question for Clair, Cadance, Neighdine, and Prances: "How much 'action' do you have with your respective stallions? Once a day? More? Less?"
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Now that I have your attention, I want to know where you get the Ask X questions. Do you only look at the comments for the most recent chapter, or all of them? Because that comment was originally an aside at the end of an Ask X comment, but I cut out the Ask X bit and posted it as 9995277 because I wasn't sure if you were taking the questions from comments on older chapters or just the most recent one.
9995328 I take them from the latest chapter. Usually the one with the most upvotes.
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Gordon's got a valid point, but the caveat is that it is very likely that the same types of math equations involved with orbital calculations (which is really just regular calculus applied to the specific situation) will give solutions to other subjects. Much like there's a clear similarity between the equations for the forces of gravity and static electric charges: F=G*m1*m2/r2 vs F=k*q1*q2/r2 -- structurally, the formulas are the same, with the only differences between them being the values of the constants and the dimensions of the factors in the calculations.
Just as the formula for Escape Velocity has the structure of √(2GM/r), there may be a formula with a similar arrangement involving how many thaums it takes to do a specific task.