A lasso that was magically enhanced, and lengthend an untold number of times over, by Celestia's magic. Heck, on one shot, the lasso circles around the whole planet on its way to the moon.

The dragging was further aided by Luna's magic pulling the moon directly.

In addition, one shot shows the planet from the moon's position, and it looks a lot like photos of the earth from our moon. The perspective of that panel suggests that it's somewhat smaller than our own moon, but it's not, like, the size of an earthly mountain or something like that. It's much bigger.

As for Luna leaving the moon and going back to the planet, well, that's something she's done before, so I assume the whole "hitching the moon to the planet" thing was for the benefit of the main characters.

So yeah, it's smaller than our moon, but still large enough to be a moon as we know it. As for tides and such... I think that's a point in the story where the only way to explain it is "magic". I mean, they're already giving gravity a big middle finger by dragging it within the planet's atmosphere without destroying it or having it crash into the surface, so..

edited 18th Jun '13 7:04:28 PM by Enlong

@Enlong: My point is that they're basically kicking science in the face via magic. We can't really draw any scientific conclusions about it because the whole thing is so obviously magical.

Perspective still applies, though. There's a shot of the planet from the moon's location in space. Conclusions as to the two bodies' relative sizes can be drawn from that alone, rather than needing to analyze gravitational forces between them (a really good thing, since they're kicking gravity to the curb), unless magic has changed how light works, which would cause a whole host of problems unrelated to this.

edited 18th Jun '13 7:10:21 PM by Enlong

Short answer: no he doesn’t.

Long answer: Superman destroys a Kryptonian spaceship, which has the last genesis chamber—which the Kryptonians used to create their young—aboard it. If there were actual Kryptonian babies in there, it would have been genocide, yeah, but the movie never specifies, and the damn thing is 20 thousand years old, so I’m leaning towards saying it’s empty. So you could say that Superman destroys the last chance of the Kryptonians to rebuild their species. But it would be even more accurate to say that Superman was stopping General Zod from killing every human, ever, and the genesis chamber was simply collateral damage.

Actually, was the person who said Supes committed genocide referring to the collateral damage from the fights in this movie? Because that was kind of crazy. On par with the end of The Avengers.

Random, possibly strange rant.

I was discussing ponies with my little brother (he likes the show, but he doesn't like to be called a brony, just like me). Somehow, our discussions went dirty.

Me: Huh, I never saw any of the M6 farting.

My Brother: I wonder what they smell like.

M: Uh...

MB: Pinkie's would probably smell like cotten candy and Applejack's apple. I don't know about others though.

M: Or maybe they just smell like, you know, horse farts. Why are we even talking about this?

MB: We should stop watching Gintama.

M: Ah.

Yeah, we were bored that day.

I smell like stars. Just stars.

You disgust me, Orion.

... So you smell like eternal burning?

How can people be around you?

edited 18th Jun '13 7:20:19 PM by nomuru2d

@Orion - You shit out stars? What the hay do you eat?

edited 18th Jun '13 7:20:46 PM by dRoy

-Nemesis voice- STAAAAAAAAAAAAARS. *crashes through wall*

Well, hot damn. -whips out Chicago Typewriter-

@Roy: Hydrogen.

I wonder if there is blackjack or hookers in Equestria.

And Blow. Don't forget the Blow.

Blow! Yes, you gotta have the Blow.

What does Johnathan have to do with this?

Jerusalem.

Who is Johnathan?

@Roy: You're welcome to find out for yourself (The answer is yes and no).

You don't have hookers? Then who makes the fishing hooks?

Trixie. She makes all of them. She is the Queen Hooker.

Yeah, hookers play a vital role in the fishing industry, do they not?

edited 18th Jun '13 7:42:41 PM by edvedd

What would EQG look ponified? It's not what you'd expect.

Warning. Don't look if you don't want awesome music stuck in your head.

Shining Armor is training his men in the art of combat through spontaneous musical numbers.

edited 18th Jun '13 7:53:22 PM by PrincessGwenevere

Pinkie has taught him well.

What was the song? I could use a cheery number or two.

Also Trixie is best hooker.