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Alright, know I want to know more about this Brick guy. Based on how they're talking about him, I figure he's either ex-military or the mob. (That second one would be real interesting.)
With how stories in general tend to go, I suspect OP wouldn't be building up this over powered plant if it isn't going to be needed later on in some way. Besides the obvious possibility of an ultra plague, or something, maybe it'll end up being a bribe or bargaining chip.
I know we're supposed to be more curious about the grandsire, but I really wanna know about what cure did with those ducks.
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Well obviously he is practicing so as not to be a quack....
I'm no expert, but if you happen to be looking for ideas I believe zinc is supposed to help inhibit viral reproduction, at least for the common cold. One of the only OTC treatments that actually shortens the duration of a cold if used early enough. Gives the immune system time to catch up, I think... maybe.
You seem pretty on top of the biology and medical stuff, do you have an education in that area?
I can't wait to see how the rest of Cure's family reacts to him.
Thanks for the update and amazing work as always!
Wow... Thanks for the complements and comments, folks. I honestly considered this kind of a weaker chapter. I'll have to look into the zinc thing. I haven't heard that before and, if it works, I'd be thrilled to use that IRL. Sinus infections suck and the whole nasal irrigation thing only does so much.
We'll get a little more info about great grandpa in the next chapter.
Sorry if the whole imperial / metric thing is frustrating for folks. Cure still thinks in miles, but anytime he's talking he has to do the whole conversion bit. I know I'm gonna biff that with temperature if I haven't already. In fact... I know I did when I had him heat/cool water. Dammit. Oh well, I'm going with the assumption that ponies use the metric system simply because I can't come up with a logical reason they'd use feet and basing temperature off of freezing and boiling points of water seems plenty logical enough... even if that does complicate a possible plot point we won't see for a while... if at all.
The next chapter should be ready either late Thurs or early Fri and it's a bit over 13k. I'd like to do smaller 4-6k chunks and break up big chapters but I don't always get an opportunity to get on a computer and posting from other things is how my formatting got jacked to hell once before.
Polygamy? I find that many novels are engaged in this system.Will polygamy solve the problem of more mares than stallions?
Really liked the story, especially all the magic-nerd parts. I was actually looking for a fic like this cause of this one quest I read with copious amounts of 'magic autism' (the anons called it that, *shrugs*)
Does anyone else have any recs for similar fics which focuses on Magic a ton?
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I'm British. We use a mixture of Imperial and Metric XD
Large or estimates, we normally use Imperial
Small or precise, we normally use Metric.
Found this fic in the featured section a few days ago and finally caught up. Been loving it so far, can't wait to read more! Just make sure you don't burn yourself out ok
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Funny thing about viruses is that they all are quite dead. You can't really call a piece of code and molecular automata alive. Unlike bacteria they are completely helpless on their own and need a living cell to be able to do anything at all. We can make a robot capable of self-replication given the materials, but that wouldn't make it alive and viruses are no different. They are not even capable of self-replication. They are capable of tricking existing replicators to replicate them.
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And some vaccunes are actually viruses, just are missing replication code. Instead they replicate a signature sequence to create fake target.
"Dead" thing is a leftover concept from inoculation, which different from actual vaccine.
The dad is fuckin awesome, love their interactions.
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Very neat.
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The metric system is really an Earth-specific measurement system, deriving from 1/10,000,000 of the estimated distance from the North Pole to the Equator, as surveyed around France's Prime Meridian at the time. Unless their planet is a perfect twin of Earth in size, I can't justify the ponies ever developing the "meter" as we know of it.
But for a society like Equestria, it makes more sense that some of the more obscure Imperial measures would be frequently used: 4" hands (or as Cure already knows: "hooves"), 8 furlongs to the mile, 3 miles to the league, horse-power, 14 pounds to the stone, and so on. Many of those measurements were related to horses and a few of them were used in episodes.
!!! He made himself smell like a bug so the ducks are all for it! 😂
THAT IS SO CUTE
...I'm afraid of what'll happen when he starts scanning magical creatures. What if he scans a phoenix or something!? I'm sure they're mostly magical, but there must be something he could learn there. The biological aspects must connect or overlap with the magical at some point, I'm sure.