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#311876 Japanese Teeth Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:03:16 AM from Meinong's jungle

I personally think they still do, it's just that the weather is several orders of a magnitude more dangerous if the pegasi aren't running it. Their primary purpose in controlling the weather is to prevent Hurricane Sandy type disasters.

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#311877 storyyeller Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:06:15 AM from Appleloosa

And Word Of God already confirmed that ponies can't grow plants in a vacuum, they still need everything the plant needs to grow it, they simply help it do so faster and better. (It was in regards to people saying EP's would be able to use their magic to keep growing food without sunlight during NMM's endless night.)

That just means they have to invent artificial sunlight.

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#311878 Purple Dalek Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:06:18 AM from Betelgeuse

It's also much more easier if you can plan around the weather. No more holidays being ruined by rain etc.

They probably have a spell for that.

edited 4th Dec '12 8:06:41 AM by PurpleDalek

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#311879 Perpetual Lurker Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:06:39 AM

Weather management is just convenience. We get along just fine without managing the weather, but we'd jump on the any chance we could have, no doubt.

edited 4th Dec '12 8:06:53 AM by PerpetualLurker

#311880 storyyeller Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:07:04 AM from Appleloosa

Except for some reason in Ticketmaster, they didnt' seem to be aware of the weather schedule.

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#311881 Purple Dalek Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:08:57 AM from Betelgeuse

They forgot to check the bulletin board in the town hall.

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#311882 Seraphem Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:10:22 AM from Delamare

Yeah, I do think it makes more sense that ponies have simply controlled the weather so tightly that natural weather doesn't form in Equestria, not that they HAVE to do it because the weather wouldn't work otherwise.

RD started the rain early so she could "save" twi from getting wet.

edited 4th Dec '12 8:11:08 AM by Seraphem

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#311883 Purple Dalek Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:15:13 AM from Betelgeuse

The weather schedule probably is pinned up in the town hall, though.

Being British, I would love it if humans could control the weather.

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#311884 Japanese Teeth Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:16:27 AM from Meinong's jungle

@Story: Rainbow Dash is the one doing the scheduling. I'm sure she botches it up on occasion.

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#311885 edvedd Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:18:38 AM from Over there. Maybe?

It is raining like crazy over here. Every day now.

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#311886 Sereg Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:21:07 AM from South Africa

I said natural evapouration doesn't happen. That said, Serphem's idea that it's merely natural cloud formation that doesn't happen is alo an intriguing possibility.

As for the number of plants, I think that each earth pony can generate a massive area of effect for their plant growth.

But yes. I recognise that this is just my interpretation. But I tend to interpret this kind of stuff very literally.

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#311887 Purple Dalek Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:21:21 AM from Betelgeuse

Tell me about it. We don't get White Christmasses, we get Wet Christmasses.

(continues to grumble in the corner)

edited 4th Dec '12 8:21:29 AM by PurpleDalek

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#311888 nervmeister Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:23:16 AM

So Trixie is no longer Twi's Arch-Nemesis. I wonder who's going to fill that void now.

#311889 storyyeller Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:23:27 AM from Appleloosa

They probably have a spell for that.

Maximized Sunburst. Or just Daylight.

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#311890 edvedd Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:24:08 AM from Over there. Maybe?

I never really thought she was a nemesis.

edited 4th Dec '12 8:24:14 AM by edvedd

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#311891 Meta Four Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:24:37 AM from riding the wave

So Trixie is no longer Twi's Arch-Nemesis. I wonder who's going to fill that void now.

Stress.

That would be running a punchline into the ground.

#311892 Seraphem Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:25:16 AM from Delamare

and we know from LBYS that the weather ponies do goof up since the huge storm was to make up for missing a smaller one.

And from that, I gather it's actually the main weather factory HQ in Cloudsdle that does the scheduling, but it's still RD that organizes the weather patrol to get it done right in town.

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#311893 Japanese Teeth Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:25:30 AM from Meinong's jungle

@Sereg: I guess we can just agree to disagree, then.

That's headcannon for you.

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#311894 Sereg Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:27:17 AM from South Africa

Trixie was never Twilight's arch-nemesis. She was too small-fry for that. S He was closer to Rainbow Dash's arch-nemesis and even then it didn't fit. Twilight's nknownRival would be a better descripter. An actual arch-nemesis for Twi might be cool though.

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#311895 Japanese Teeth Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:28:35 AM from Meinong's jungle

Okay, this is really interesting.

Don't really believe it, but it's certainly an intriguing theory.

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#311896 edvedd Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:33:46 AM from Over there. Maybe?

Yeah, if she had been a constant thorn in Twi's side, then you could say nemesis. 2 appearances don't really amount to much.

I expect that in her imagination, Trixie considered Twi her Nemesis.

edited 4th Dec '12 8:34:28 AM by edvedd

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#311897 Perpetual Lurker Tue, 4th Dec '12 8:36:25 AM

I want to see Trixie going on a haphazard journey to try and replicate Twilight. Step one: Obtain a dragon companion.