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Twilight's still smart. It's just that everypony else is smarter, and it's up to her to find out why. She’d better hurry, because her friends are almost done building their spaceship.
Set some time around Season 4.
Huge thanks to Zalmax and ScratchPaper for pre-reading!
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Is this a reupload?
I could swear I've seen this story before.
Great premise, twist, and final joke! Twilight was a great straight mare for this and I'm glad this didn't require making her a moron to make the comedy work.
This is like that Futurama episode where Prof. Farnsworth meets Da Vinci, and he is the stupid one on his planet, so he went to Earth where he was a genius, relatively speaking. Prof. Farnsworth is even stupider than him when they go to Da Vinci's planet.
LMAO
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The first version 'starred' all humans, and was mostly hundreds of years ago?
Not so much “dumb” as “unfamiliar with the subject matter.” Or possibly “working with a different set of physical laws.” Suffice to say, delightful bit of silliness. Though I do wonder how everypony will react after the fact… and just where that rocket would end up.
11009612 Love that show!
Okay, this was pretty great, and not at all what I expected in the best way. The choice of individual topics Twilight's friends focused on, the twist second chapter, and the stealth astronomical history lesson all worked.
Oh, this is wonderfully humorous.
Ah, Twilight...you forget just how Discord works sometimes.
Well, that was a fun story. :D
Nice story
No reason that astronomy and the princesses can't coexist though, once Luna and Celestia come settle everyone down
And faved.
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And thus, after being declared a filthy heretic and being banished from Equesria, Spike would go on to build the first interspecies space agency.
Upon being informed of their first moon landing. Princess Luna was said to have threatened them to, quote, "Get off my lawn!"
I had to look up what pronking meant.
I want to see what the princesses think. But this is another interesting thought about how the pseudo-medieval/19th century world of Equestria runs. Presuming it runs on the same physical laws as our own, would anypony believe you or would you be taken to the nice little garden of the ponyville hospital/sanitarium?
Fun start but not “dumb” and weak ending.
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i concur!
Huh. Wonder why specifically Marecury then. Assuming the Equestria star system is analogous to that of real life Sol's (and let's face it, with a name like Marecury, there's no reason to assume otherwise), there'd be other world's both closer, and thereby a little easier, to get to, and altogether a bit more interesting to explore. Not to say Marecury wouldn't be interesting to explore too, but it is effectively just an overcooked rock in space, so it'd seem like it wouldn't be the first world one would be clamping at the bit to get to, especially if only still in the beginning stages of operating what's effectively a space launch program.
Sounds like there's a totally different story to be told there.
Yeah, saw that coming from a mile away.
Oh, now they're cracking general relativity even.
...and now we're getting into the Fermi Paradox.
Y'know, delivered all at once like this, I'm starting to see how Twilight would be more than a little overwhelmed by it all.
Yeah, I knew he had given himself some sort of loophole.
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Yep as a lover of fae . Always read the fine print.
That's a pun, right?
Only more reasons to launch as soon as possible.
Well, you're not wrong...
And now her friends may remember the princesses again, but they also remember their space theories.
As such they realize the princesses are actually scammers and form an angry mob trying to overthrow them.
Whether that's an improvement to their previous state-of-mind remains to be seen.
Good story!
I enjoyed reading it.
A very nice read! Very funny, had me chuckling at several parts!
I bucking knew it! As soon as I saw the line
Well, that was a nice plot twist. Although with Discord's promise, you could see the ending coming a mile away.
Flutterbright sounds like something you'd sing about in rhyme.
"Flutterbright, Flutterbright, share with us your thoughts tonight."
Given the spoiler, does this mean Princess Celestia has been disappeared?
Aww! She does care about him! Unusual for this point in the series.
Out of five ponies, four are always doing things like this Twilight.
I get the thought process involved: woken up by a large roar, everything looks like a threat, but the evidence certainly isn't provided by most of their behavior.
I want to hear more about these characters. Are they from the comics?
This legit makes me laugh. I have never even considered the possibility that Twilight would not know what orbits are.
You do a real good job of making Rainbow's dialogue feel natural to the character, which in turn makes Twilight not knowing how to feel seem more natural.
This is a theme that repeats itself throughout the story (with the rest of Twilight's friends), and it helps ground the absurdity, while making it less farfetched or disturbing, perfect for the comedy tone it is conveying.
Oh it is. It's just a terrible idea.
Seriously are they not even going to test this before launching themselves into space?
Naturally. She's the epitemy of grace.
You've made a academic Rarity sound more plausible in a single line, then some stories do with thousands of pages.
What the heck is a Whereyagoing-a-scope?
Tribbles Fluttershy, Fluttershy Tribbles. Enjoy!
Dang it. I wanted to hear the end of that sentence.
So Discord is involved hmm? Why am I not supprised?
So you are risking who knows what kind of disaster, to find Discord faster, despite the fact you suck at spell casting, and there were other ways to call him?
You know the word for that Twilight? Irresponsible!
We all know that isn't actually Aslan. Nice try Discord.
He's not wrong.
Twilly sweetie, your world opperates on kiddy level logic.
Your friends didn't need anything approaching genius to do the things they did.
They merely needed extraordinary levels of courage, dedication, and humility, in order to recognize a mare with a actual plan, and follow her.
That doesn't explain their curiosity about the heavens though, or their ability to master complex fields of physics and engineering without explanation.
Again he's not wrong.
That's what I said!
Even Fluttershy?!
Oh who am I kidding? This is Discord after all!
Especially Fluttershy.
Okay that made me laugh!
Well played Dissy. Well played.
I thought this whole thing was a dream at first, but when it turned out that Discord was involved, I got interested in how the story would end. And that last line was pretty clever.
Well, that escalated quickly!
Specifically, at least about 400*365/2=73000 times faster than it should have, judging by our history.
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Huh. That reminds me of the parasprites. A lot.
Didn't know MLP:FiM was influenced by Star Trek!