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Could these two be Philomena's surviving relative?
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Well for a supposedly almost extinct species the Phoenixes might want to take a recount. Because there are two living with Celestia and since one of them was only recently hatched the egg couldn't have laid too long ago. That means there are others out there.
I've lost count of the number of times I've almost thrown my phone after getting to a cliffhanger... It's been far too long since I've enjoyed a story as much as this one.
Wind defences mustve been good to stop someone the size of Torch from dropping rocks half the size of that tower on it from the upper atmosphere?
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Insert maniacal author laughter here.
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I suppose I should have clarified what they meant. All the others who knew the ancient history, not Phoenixes in general.
And there's your freebie for the day. Enjoy!
Hmm.... so are these phoenixes the offspring of the dragons? The original heirs to the heavenly bodies? Or perhaps Philomena's parents? I wonder...
I wonder if the rebirth thing is like a final fantasy job upgrade for alicorns
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Ooooooo
You two acting like Father and Son
great chapter
more phoenixes!
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this is going to be a amazing talk.
Wouldn't that be adventurer turned author? I would think she was an adventurer first.
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Oh, you'd hate my stories, then. By now, my readers must have the upper body strength of a gorilla with how often I've left them dangling on a cliff
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I do read your stories actually, big fan of all of the Chaotic Harmony stories. And it's more like 10 gorillas.
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True, gasoline and kerosene can be dangerous in large amounts, but hydrogen--especially liquid hydrogen--can be dangerous in even minute amounts.
I've witnessed where an open bucket of kerosene can be used to douse a lit cigarette--admittedly, you can't do that with a bucket of gasoline, but I've also witnessed dozens of people filling their cars up at the pump while smoking! Yes, that is a stupid move for anyone, but explosions really are far more rare than is propagandized--otherwise, there would be a hell of lot more Darwin Award winners as there should be.
Of course, events like Ford Pintos catching fire were due to ridiculously shoddy design flaws, 9/11 was from a deliberate act to send a humongous flying gas tank through a building (which NO amount of engineering could ever prevent such a rupture), and the sinking of the Taiho was likewise a deliberate event, but the engineering applied was insufficient--btw, that was good reading on the event. thanks for the pointer.
OTOH, using liquid hydrogen as a fuel source, requires storage to be under extreme pressure and extreme cold, and the stuff is, for lack of a better term that is not repetitive, extremely explosive with only just a minute amount of triggering to ignite it--and is just as capable as helium of finding a way out of its container, but far more dangerous when it leaks out. That shit can detonate on contact with ordinary air! Just check out this article.
Therefore, the required engineering of the containers for the respective substances to keep them safe, are likewise, very, very different. Because, given the enormous difference, pound for pound, in the amount of energy released, gasoline and kerosene really are much safer than hydrogen whenever there's a catastrophic spill.
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Just saying that I think the hazards of hydrogen are somewhat overstated. After all, more people aboard the Hindenburg when it went up in flames actually survived the disaster than died in it -- granted, that’s no consolation to those who did and their friends and families and in that case we’re just talking about the gas and under only normal atmospheric pressure to boot, but it’s still something that seems to get overlooked every so often.
As I see it, the actual main reason hydrogen doesn’t see more prominent use these days is the simple hassle of storage. As a gas it likes to diffuse even through apparently solid walls and escape over time, which also means it can react with the substance of the container beyond just the inner surface to the latter’s potential detriment, and as a liquid it takes a lot of effort to keep cool enough (and puts its own stresses on the containment vessel again). And to date I haven’t heard about any good straightforward long-term solutions to those issues like one would need to fuel a car with it. Now, Equestrian magic might well have ways to address them...but then again, for that it’s probably more straightforward to just come up with a magic-powered engine in the first place and skip the chemistry altogether.