I don't know, I find geocentric model more plausible. Heliocentric model breaks my Willing Suspension of Disbelief.

Exactly. The thing is that there's not much to speculate about because it depends almost entirely on how much Cartoon Physics applies versus the real kind.

Don't forget the scientifically accurate description of commets in Owls Well That Ends Well.

"Most of these comments are from Youtube. So, they flame so hard that they burn up before ever reaching the planet."

In less silly news, the donation drive for Skullgirls just broke $725K. Mane6 will be getting the Skullgirls engine licensed to them for free!

@Sereg: Well... incinerate them, maybe?

To avoid another power level argument so soon, I'm just gonna say that we don't have an accurate way of measuring top-tier power and therefore no way of knowing what will and will not work.

Can we please not get into yet another discussion on whether or not the sun-moving thing means Celestia is absurdly powerful? We've already established that astronomy works so differently in Equestria that comparisons between the Equestrian sun and our sun are pretty much impossible.

Also, I know everybody likes to point out the comet thing, but I think that the fact that ponies move the sun and moon trumps it. When literally the first thing established about the setting is that the sun and moon are directly manipulated by the characters, I think it pretty clearly establishes that astronomy works very very differently in this setting.

As for ponies vs. humans in war, it's kind of a crapshoot because we've only seen the ponies in anything even remotely resembling warfare all of once, and even that isn't a very good indication. We have exactly zero frame of reference for how these things would interact. E.g. Shining Armor's shield. It's equally likely that a nuke would wreck that thing, or that a nuke would due all of jack shit to it because magic trumps physics. If it's the latter, a few ponies with force fields would neutralize most of our armaments, if it's the former, a few missiles would win the war. Without any meaningful data points it boils down to headcanon on how they would interact.

edited 27th Mar '13 1:37:57 PM by JapaneseTeeth

I think by now Equestria as a whole, and probably that entire world, qualifies as an Eldritch Location by our standards. That's my stand on it, and I doubt I have much else to say.

I'm not so interested in human vs ponies or Celestia's power level but rather the setting of the show, although as for the latter it might have to overlap.

Al we know is that Celesia and Luna's feas are repeatable by a team of regular Unicorns. As for how the heavens work... well, I take issue with using Discord's movement of the celestial bodies as proof of any kind, since Discord is... well, Discord.

The best comparison I can come up with is that he's a lot like Coyote.

edited 27th Mar '13 1:40:14 PM by Enlong

I'm not so sure about that. Twilight doesn't treat magic as a trumping of physics, just another field of it that we would presumably have been unable to detect. It probably knows a few really nice loopholes of our laws, but I doubt it's a hard override of them.

So I just found out Im getting a 3D printer.

THE FUN THAT WILL BE HAD!

@Pykrete: True, but my point still stands: We know almost nothing about how magic and physics interact, which means we have no clue how magic would function in a combat situation.

well, this is the most extreme clopfoc I've seen yet.

it is not, however, the most extreme piece of erotic fiction I've seen in my travels among the Internets.

...if this was humanized, I would totally read it...and probably enjoy it.

edited 27th Mar '13 2:26:44 PM by Blissey1

I don't think I want to know.

It's a strong fic indeed when you go "what the fuck am i reading" with just the summary.

We can at least stimate a minimum strength tht Shining's shield would need simply to do its job. We know at least that it's stronger than a thick stone wall.

Well considering that he was visibly strained holding up the barrier, and a few Changelings bouncing off it were weakening it. I'd say brick wall is probably appropriate estimate of strength.

Oh hey, something for the WTF Fanfiction thread. -clicks link-

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For some reason I love the spider one

Your request coloured in JT◊.

I'm not so happy with it but I hope you are. I think I need to revisit the drop shadow tool.

Hey, congrats. I've always wanted to get one, but I've never had the time or artistic skills to justify getting one.

Woohoo! Mane6 gets the skullgirls engine!

Assuming they don't have a whole bunch of people drop out of the funding at the last minute.

Does that clopfic have a mature cover image? I kinda wanna read the description but I'm stuck at work(Moooooore overtime. And I wanted to go see John Dies at the End). Text is cool, but a nsfw image...

The image is fine.

Well, that sounds. Hm.

Not the WORST thing I've ever heard of I guess. But still pretty fucked up.

The image is fine, but even the summary is the kind of thing you really don't want a coworker to drop by and see, much less on company time.

And yes, I love the spider gif.

edited 27th Mar '13 3:18:01 PM by Pykrete