Tirek and Cozy Glow eventually recovered from their fit of evil laughter, and followed the magical human doctor towards the room. Cozy Glow placed a hoof one of the sensors, but the door didn't open.
Inside the room, a monotonous female voice came from a speaker on the ceiling "Attention Citizen Heinrich Keifer, the fugitive known as Subject Two is attempting to enter the current residence. However, they are not attempting to breach through damaging and forcing their way into the residence. Would you like me to deploy defensive measures?"
"No, grant fugitives Subject One and Subject Two access to the current residence," the doctor replied.
"Citizen Heinrich Keifer, I would highly recommend - " the A.I. was cut off as the doctor spoke.
"Confirm action," he said and the A.I. responded not with words but by opening the door to the room.
Cozy Glow and Tirek entered the room. It was exactly like how Cozy Glow had left it, with the exception of a whistling sound coming from the kitchen that broke the calm music which was still playing from some non discernible source.
They headed for the kitchen door and Cozy placed her hoof on the sensor once more, causing the door to open. Upon opening the door, they saw the human grab three mugs from one of the cupboards, followed by closing it with his legs, and set the three mugs down on the table. He then opened a different cupboard, bringing out a teapot which he brought to the whistling kettle.
What was strange was that there was no fire to heat the kettle. It seemed to be boiling with no discernable heat source, and they both thought the strange human was using magic to heat it up. He then poured the contents of the kettle into the teapot. Setting all four items on a tray, he walked towards the duo.
"If you could be so kind, would you please get the door? My hands are preoccupied," the human said, lifting the tray up for emphasis.
Shooting him a hateful glare, Tirek reluctantly put one of his hands on the sensor, opening the door, and the human went through it with both aliens in tow.
"Grab a chair for yourself, centaur," the human said, setting the tray down on the glass table that was in the bedroom.
Tirek angrily stomped off to get a chair from the kitchen and the human began pouring the tea. When Tirek went back into the room, dragging a chair behind him, the human was halfway through pouring the tea into the last cup.
"Psst," Cozy Glow caught Tirek's attention. "He's distracted," he whispered.
Tirek smirked in response, putting the chair down slowly, before approaching the human. He then began to suck in air, and what he assumed was going to be magic. He formed his mouth into an O shape and and began to inhale, much like how someone would slurp up a noodle, or sip their tea.
But nothing happened. Nothing other than the doctor who finished pouring his tea and looked towards him in confusion.
"What are you doing?" he asked calmly and in complete and utter confusion, while he stared at Tirek, who was still attempting to 'suck in his magic'.
Tirek stopped dramatically inhaling the air around him for a moment. "This… this usually works the first time," he said, his tone one of complete confusion as well, "Give me a moment."
He then proceeded to do a little bit of stretching, followed by bouncing up and down quickly, much like an athlete preparing to run a marathon. "Just… a little stiff I think," he said before stopping his short workout routine, "Should work now."
He resumed attending to eat the human's magic while he just stared at him dumbfounded. "What are you doing?" he asked, now with a hint of irritation in his voice.
From a concealed earpiece, came the confused voice of the world leaders.
"What is he doing?" President Atticus asked.
"Is this some sort of intimidation tactic used by his species?" Prime Minister Jack Byrnes asked in a confused British accent.
"He looks like he's tryna suck cock," President Mateo of Hispanica said in a Spanish accent.
"I think it's some sort of mating ritual," General Aladeen stated.
"Aladeen, I don't think - " President Alexi began in a Russian accent but was cut off.
"No, no, I think it's a mating call! He's trying to attract a mate!" The Wadyian Supreme Leader exclaimed excitedly.
"I still highly doubt - " Xi Mingzhe began, but she too was cut off by the hyperactive dictator.
"The alien man horse is clearly attracted to him," Aladeen said, "Keifer would you like to have sex with the alien?"
Keifer just rolled his eyes at the extreme immaturity of the Wadyian dictator. "I think he wants to communicate," Keifer said, still utterly befuddled.
The human then began sucking in air at various different strengths, speeds, and pitches, which in turn caused the two villains to look at him, completely perplexed.
"What are you doing?" Cozy Glow asked in a befuddled tone.
A separate voice suddenly boomed throughout the room, seemingly coming out of nowhere, much like when Alise spoke, "You idiot child!" the voice of what sounded like a Saddle Arabian stallion shouted, "He's responding to the centaur's mating call! They are both about to have sex!"
All three of the ones present in the room suddenly got an extreme look of disgust, "What?! No, shut up Aladeen! I was just doing what he's doing," the human replied, gesturing towards Tirek.
"You can steal magic?" Tirek asked, both surprised and relieved.
"What? No!" he said, "Magic isn't even real! I thought you were trying to communicate!"
The two just stared at him like he was an idiot. Saying magic wasn't real was like saying the sky didn't exist. Magic is real, was always real and would always be real.
"Are you completely mad?! Didn't you just used it to summon both rain and electricity?!" Cozy Glow asked, "I know for a fact that humans are affected by something called a mental illness, which causes them to go crazy. I think you should go surrender yourself to one of the human rehabilitation centers and get yourself a purification."
"I have no idea what that is," he said, annoyed, "Just sit down, and we may begin our question and answer session."
"Well, guess what, crazy human?" Cozy Glow said in a confident voice, "Tirek just stole your magic. And now you're going to tell us how a literal human got himself some magic."
"So you're one of those civilizations, are you?" Keifer asked, "Having primitive superstitious beliefs of the supernatural. What's next? Are you about to tell me that unicorns are real? Maybe you believe in dragons as well! Or maybe there's a sun and moon God?"
They were now one hundred percent certain that this human really was completely mad. There was no doubt about it. Either that or…
"Have you been living under a rock all this time?!" Tirek asked sarcastically.
"Yes!" Keifer exclaimed in annoyance, "We have been living here for a total million years! That's exactly what I have been attempting to get you to understand."
"Where is… here, exactly?" Tirek asked.
"Utopia, an underground city," Keifer replied.
"A city?" Tirek looked around, "This looks more like a small hiding area. And cities usually have more than one resident, and most definitely more than one human."
"You're just in one of the tens of thousands of sections that make up Utopia," Keifer said, "I requested I come by myself to prove that I'm not a threat. And I thought you would feel a lot less comfortable with several hundred aliens around you, but it appears you are familiar with my species."
"What do you mean you've been living here for a million years?" Cozy Glow asked curiously.
"My question next, remember?" he asked, "You said that you have come into contact with - "
He was cut off by Cozy Glow, "Yes."
"What?" Keifer asked, confused.
"The condition was a question for a question. Your question was 'my question next, remember?'" Cozy Glow said, "So now it's our turn to ask a question."
Keifer smiled in response, "Yes, it is. Ask away."
"You said you had been living here for a million years," Cozy Glow said skeptically, "How is that possible?"
"We used cryogenic technology to freeze ourselves until the ground was once again habitable," Keifer replied, "Now, you have had previous contact with humanity. How many humans are left?"
"Are you kidding?" Cozy Glow asked. "Millions. You're all over Equs! And we thought all of the humans had been subjugated and enslaved," she gave him a disgusted look, "It appears we were wrong."
"Now for my question," Tirek said, "If you really have been frozen for a million years like you have said, why did you freeze yourselves?"
"Because of the second flood," the human sighed, "Over one million years ago, we discovered an asteroid that was headed straight towards Earth. Said asteroid also emitted extremely harmful radiation that caused fatal mutations within the human body. So we built Utopia, an underground bunker, and what we thought was the last of humanity was gathered and put to sleep until we could return to Earth. A thousand years after we went to sleep, the asteroid finally crashed into Earth, wiping out all life at the time."
"Just more of your crazy ramblings," Tirek retorted.
"I'm sorry, but may I have a moment to talk with my friend here?" Cozy Glow asked, surprising Tirek in the process.
"But I still have a questio - " Cozy Glow cut the apparent madman off.
"Please!" she raised her voice slightly.
Dr. Keifer, knowing that this news was probably both the most unbelievable, and the most terrible thing they must have heard of, relented, giving them their privacy, "Very well, take all the time you need." Or at least, they thought he did. He then left the room, exiting out into the hall.
"Alise, connect my iPad to the room's cameras, and enhance microphone receptiveness to one hundred percent," he said. A few seconds later, his iPad came alive, now featuring a live feed of the conversation going on in the room. The same conversation was also broadcast over a television in front of the leaders of Utopia.
"This human is clearly insane," Tirek said.
"I've been waiting for your signal. Why aren't we beating him up and escaping?" Cozy Glow asked.
"Well, for starters, he was telling the truth. He has no magic," Tirek explained as Dr. Keifer leaned in closer.
"What?!" Cozy Glow exclaimed, surprised, "Everything has magic. Even regular objects are charged with ambient magic! Even the air around us has magic! How is that even possible?!" Cozy Glow was as surprised as can be when she came upon this revelation. Saying something didn't have magic was like saying that the atoms in this facility only consisted of electrons without protons.
"Well, he isn't completely devoid of magic, but what he has is even stranger," Tirek looked around quickly, acting as if just saying this information out loud was an unforgivable sin, "He has… chaos magic."
Cozy Glow's eyes widened in disbelief. The only creature in the world that was known to have such magic was Discord. Like, literally… chaos magic was like a Discord exclusive thing, just like how only Luna could raise the moon.
Seeing the disbelieving look on Cozy's face, Tirek elaborated, "It's not a lot though. He has chaos magic, but he still has a lesser amount than anything else I have come to witness. He himself is a scientific marvel. The amount of magic he has is even less than that of the ambient magic present in the air."
This intrigued their eavesdroppers. Keifer immediately knew that what he was talking about, was in fact, Chaotic Radiation, and the rest of the Utopian leaders were slowly coming to the same conclusion as well. Their skepticism of the apparent 'magic' of this world, was now replaced with curiosity. They still didn't actually believe magic was real, how foolish could they be? But now they didn't just view their claims as absolute bullshit.
"So did you manage to get that at least?" Cozy Glow asked, sounding like an annoying teenager once more.
"No, it was too little. I couldn't absorb it," Tirek replied.
"What do you mean 'too little'?" Cozy Glow asked, making air quotes with her hooves, "I thought that the less magic somepony had, the easier it was for you to steal it?"
"That is true, but at a certain point, it becomes a burden," he said. "Why do you think I haven't absorbed all the ambient magic from the trees, the rocks, the ground, and the air itself? It's like a giant trying to pick up a single piece of hair. It's extremely difficult, and with such a small amount," he gestured towards the door that Keifer left through, "Nearly impossible. And even if it was possible, such a small amount of magic is practically useless. We'd be stuck here, unable to open those doors, and eventually starve to death."
"Do you think he was telling the truth the entire time?" Cozy Glow asked.
"I think it's a possibility. A small one, but still a possibility," Tirek replied.
"So, what do we do?" Cozy Glow asked.
"For now, we play along, answer his questions," Tirek said, "We make our escape when the opportunity presents itself."
They both burst out into evil laughter once again. What they didn't see were the people watching them, cringing in disgust. They sounded like cartoon villains when they laughed like that.
A sudden knock on the door, however, stopped their laughter.
"May I enter?" came the unmistakable Germane accent of the doctor.
"Yes, you may enter, 'doctor'," Tirek said, and the doctor entered, sitting down on his chair.
"So, shall we begin?" Dr. Keifer asked, and Tirek and Cozy Glow nodded simultaneously.
The interview would now continue in a new light, with both sides now not believing the other was completely lying, or completely mad.
Me waiting for the advanced humans start liberating the slave from equs-
I am waiting for the all out war, or peace treaty’s.
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Or forced peace treaties through all out war.
Why do I get the feeling that Humans and Equestrians are gonna go to war?
Ohh... So it's going to be one of those, ponies are unexplainable and there won't be an explanation or realist reason to cover up the unrealistic parts of the mlp canon such as pinkie and her abilities. Either that or the villains really are that cringy. But if the villains are cringy, I have a feeling that means the ponies would be as well since the villains are following exact show canon.
Honestly not much of a fan of it. Stories that have real reasons, explanations, and others are the stories I like, the more realistic ones. That doesn't mean I can't enjoy a good SciFi where it's explained with future tech or something similar. At least they have an explanation as opposed to the cringy, "it's just the way it is."
Oh my, now I almost feel bad for the humans if they have to deal with things like this. Then again the faster the humans pull out their nukes, the fast I can get smug satisfaction from the reactions of the ponies.
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*Cough cough* previous authors comment *cough*
This is getting interesting. I think outside of questions to get the basic grasp of the situation, I'd like to see some comedy spread in to keep things interesting. I can't seem to come up with anything at the moment, sadly. But I'm sure others will fill that void. Looking forward to what you come up with here.
Kill them all.
Edit: huh this updated while I was reading it lol.
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I stand by corrected, now I am waiting for the all out war, peace treaty’s and forced peace treaty’s through a all out war.
"Because of the
second floor,"the human sighed,The second flood* I think
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No, I meant evil laughter in general is cringy. Imagine if someone made an evil statement and just went 'muahahaha!'
Little disappointed that those two were the first creatures who came into contact with the humans. Can't wait until the humans make their presence known.
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1. That's when it began
2. They went in in 2026
3. 1:3
4. Only a few teachers, and only the high ranking officials' life and family were allowed in.
Nowhere in the conversation previously did he tell them they were frozen, only that they had been living down there.
The first questions that would come to mind for me are, what is the current known level of technological advancement (what are some recent commonplace and military technologies), and what if anything do you know about the current world governments? Governmental relations and current conflicts.
Aswell, why the fuck were they both in cages inside of the big ass cave.
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Changed. Thanks for spotting that out, I didn't even notice.
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Yea, I decided on experimenting on a third person perspective for the interview chapters.
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Very good thought out questions!
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Fixed, thanks!
I Loved this Chapter!
The Nobel Council: "HA! What do you know about fighting a war if you're always fighting for a scrap of food?!"
Humanity: "We know a thing or two cause we've seen a thing or two." proceeds to play multiple holographic videos showing various wars from the paints to recent conflicts all ending with a nuclear bomb going off.
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1. When what began?
2. And after a year they decided to be frozen?
3. So it was an error.
4. Ok, I guess that makes sense.
So, my guess is that Equestrian Magic is actually Keifer Radiation.
Once they discover they’re just calling the same thing different names, they’ll get a better idea of how much the world has changed.
How the hell does the Sun and Moon being controlled? Does in the one million year, the Keifer and Chaos Radiation wreck havoc on Earth? When the Utopian found out about this, the first thing they did is to send a satellite to space and investigate.
1.
Let's say that radiation created magic before it disappeared from earth and magic is "enveloping" the earth and some space around it, so it will also envelop the moon and even then the possibility to move it is questionable.
The sun, can't be the real sun:
- It's too far and for the magic to envelope it, it would need to reach the whole solar system to do it.
-the meteor would have to affect it somehow when it only crashed on earth
-the distance and size is too big to move it,the mass of the sun would be too big to constantly keep it around the earth and not opposite
My guess is that either
Moon is real but the sun is a fake, illusion,it can't be artificial,because then there would-be two suns
OR
Both sun and moon are fake, illusion places of part of the earth, where ponies live.
That one makes more sense because that would explain Luna's ability to move starts, which would mean stars are also an illusion.
Also, a crucial point, if that was really how the solar system worked, before Celestia and Luna or other sentient magical species, there wouldn't be any life able to develop.
I hope humans will expose the truth about the real solar system to every living being and if necessary liberate the moon from control.
As for if it should be asked?
No, they can learn it when looking at the sky if they are in that zone under illusion.
Then they can send spacecraft, satellites to space to prove what is real.
2.
As for the potential "immortality" of alicorns and Discord
Well more like long livity, they can still be killed.A good sniper shoot to the heart or brain from kilometers away would solve the problem easily.
If you consider normal animals that can live very long lives like The Greenland Shark it's not that surprising
If you add mutations there is a possibility of living for thousands of years.
But sadly biological living for thousands of years isn't that good. The brain has still a certain capacity and you will forget a lot of stuff.Your mind will probably also deteriorate and that's also only considering the brain and not the rest of the body.
It seems the best way to live for thousands of years is the cybernetic way.Physical parts can be replaced and data transferred to new hardware,etc
3.
As for things that should be asked then.
-List of all races, countries, which are strongest?
-Are there super weapons (this should be obvious and real fear) so Elements of Harmony will be revealed
-Full description of what are flood humans doing how they are treated ,etc
But I think some of these questions can be replaced for better ones if humans would launch scout drones or satellites to scan the earth
4.
So the world follows the drama, stage logic?
Ponies, other races, and humans that survived the second flood?
They will be surprised how humans are logical and practical when they do things
For example no monologuing but straight action.
5.
So I wonder if humans will be like anti-magic
Like magical radios will have only static when humans will get close,etc
Or they could get magic "circuits " damaged like an anti magic EMP like if real mini EMP detonated
6.
I just had an idea.
Chrysalis can be a good ally for humans if they would invent a synthetic emotions, love
She can show this to changelings with a proof , making them joining her back and humans will have an ally
It seems only humans will know how changelings transformations is a gift.
Maybe even they would be able to replicate it for themselves.
Spy potential was never explored and touched by them.They only touched the surface.
Any enemy military could be destroyed from inside if humans will teach them
Or by destroying their economy,etc
This is very poggers :D
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Thinking about it now, in the event of depending In where it hit you could argue that what remains of the asteroid and parts of earth were ejected into space forming somewhat of a second moon.
Given the unknown potential in the radiation, it could just be so actively 'hot' that to anyone oblivious it could look like the sun.
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There still would be 2 suns then
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It's been a million years. A lot can happen in that time. Including the death of a star. There is also the possibility that the asteroid impact knocked earth out of the sun's orbit, and is now drifting through space.
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Food is the one things humans actually get. The ponies here aren't complete barbarians. E.g. you always see that Ancient Roman slaves are fed well, but they are still forced to do backbreaking work and whipping is still a common punishment.
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1. that's when the first person died
2. a year before the second flood
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spoilers
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good theory, but it's not that.
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Ok, I think I get it a little bit.
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If the sun died then a black hole would be created
That would mean that earth doesn't have a moon and sun
The asteroid would have to create one of them but not both
Good Chapter.
Most will want to know things like
Number of sapient races, main political countries. Food availability, And now when they are understanding magic is real, they will want info on that, as well as Tireks help in getting a magic user for experimentation.
Military and Security will want to know what offensive and defensive spells to expect, what is the current military capability, and what is around their immediate area topside. Nearest Towns, farming communities, Military Bases, Etc.
At some point, someone will get the idea to ask What country they are in, as well as a brief history.
My opinion is that once they realize that the modern equivalent of Nukes is the Tree of Harmony, they will put their cross-hairs on that. If they go for peace through negotiation, political means. They would probably surround the tree with hidden C4 and keep quiet about it unless they are crossed. "You killed our ambassador, we broke your tree. Call me Mister Butter Fingers. "
I think one of the first things they will do is capture a modern human. Personally, I would want to see just how far the mighty race has fallen. I'm kind of curious if you're going to go the YHAY route. (Your Human And You) Which puts them at the level of trainable monkeys with no language, but the ability to learn spoken commands. Any Mutations? Maybe make them hideous, like Keith Richards?
Monk
“To say that Twilight Sparkle went bugfuck would be like saying the Incredible Hulk had some mild anger management issues.” -DustTraveller
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No the sun wouldnt turn into a black hole, our sun is small and would just explode, i think youre confused with neutron stars, they are super massive, small stars that when they die some of them make black holes because of their mass or simply explode
Besides the sun isnt going to die in a million years. If you were to do a simple google search you would find out the sun is gonna live for around 4 to 5 billion more years.
Learning is fun
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2016 the first flood happened and they finished utopia for 2027 befpre the second flood
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What the fuck, I didn't bring that idea out, the previous comment did, I just assumed that by" the death of a star" he meant the sun becoming a black hole because that's one of the most common scenarios everyone thinks about when talking about the death of the stars and sun,so I answered why that wouldn't make sense and I was close.
In here 10913051
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No, they discovered out in 2016, and that's when Utopias construction started in preparation for the second flood, which would occur in 2027. The first flood is noah's ark lol
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Oh i see, ok then
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More on neutron stars :D
https://youtu.be/udFxKZRyQt4
(btw ik u didnt bring up the possibility that the sun died in the million years but im making another point as to why the sun wouldnt turn into a black hole:
1 it cant
2 it wouldnt)
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My guess is that celestia pulls the planet slightly closer to the sun bc the asteroid knocked the orbit a bit, an asteroid wouldnt send us into deep space so i think the earth would be moving very slowly and very little making it possible for celestia to use herself as an anchor to the earth and use her magic to pull closer. The same for luna except she would be pulling the moon or adjusting its orbit
Idrk im not an Astrophysicist your guess is as good as mine
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A couple of things makes it impossible
Its power source and magic would need to envelop the whole solar system or at least be more powerful than the sun,star, etc essentially be an extreme power source to continuously move even earth.
But also another thing very crucial.
Before Celestia and Luna or other sentient magical species, there wouldn't be any life able to develop.
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and I would say that this particular individual is a liability, not an asset. "top 20" means jack when you point your gun at any of the other 19. one of the hallmarks of an elite fighting individual is a little concept known as discipline, followed closely by trigger discipline, and THAT is followed by common sense. Doesnt make Boris look cool or badass when he does something no spetznaz operator, or any spec-ops worth their salt would do. show off at the range? sure, get in a fistfight? It's been known to happen. However, this aint something folks would just let go. This constituted a real threat to the life of a team member, no matter boris' real intention. That is a serious crime, ESPECIALLY in the military. Even if his "top 20" status keeps him from the chopping block, he'd be off the mission, and in a holding cell faster than you could say Comrade. Best you could do is alter the scene a bit. A punch in the face, or a counter prank (you could even keep the revolver and have it be one of those ones that spits out a novelty flag that says bang). at that point, the russian might get chewed out and spend a night in the brig, but ultimately not face serious charges
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Not necessarily. There are quite a few different fates awaiting a dying star, black hole being only one of them. Our sun though? Very unlikely. First it will likely go "Red Giant", growing large enough to swallow our little planet. But it will have evaporated our oceans long before that. Next, it is believed that it will become a "planetary nebula". It isn't large enough to have much of a chance of becoming a black hole.
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OMG lol, that's going to be glorious... Do it!
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Still, just running some basic numbers, and assuming that at current levels it is only 10% as strong as it would need to be to kill everybody (so people are dying, but only those the least resistant to it) by the end of the 1000 year stretch, that 10% has multiplied to numbers that simple calculators can't handle. Even to the point I'm doubtful 7 miles of dirt would stop enough of it.
And yes, by now I realize I'm getting hung up on a thing that I should probably just ignore. Not the important part of the story, so I'm going to do just that.
Really?
Wait how?
Can’t celestia also do it?
Isn’t that the same stuff that caused mutations?
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Our sun doesn't have the mass to become a black hole, it would become a white dwarf.