MLP Forum Archive - Page 2091

#52251 Pannic Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:01:05 PM

I can see that, what with being able to bring in clouds.

Lawl, what a terrible page-topper.

So, how many "Spike grows up" fics do you think are gonna be a little rattled by the new episode?

edited 10th Dec '11 5:03:01 PM by Pannic

#52252 Applelight Limited Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:03:07 PM from Manehattan to Canterlot from Manehattan to Canterlot

that's what I thought, plus flight means no ladders required!

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#52253 Red Savant Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:03:08 PM from Eastern US from Eastern US

Can I ask a question from a while back?

Why is everyone saying gems can be 'grown'? Is it Spike's aging comment? Because that makes no sense. Gems don't grow - and as far as I know, aging a certain piece of food has never implied growth. (Except with cheese.)

I'm a college student! I don't have time for this!

#52254 Death Cloud Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:03:48 PM from SD Lucifer from SD Lucifer

I never said that was herless jerk (he was even more sympatetic that Gilda to me). I only opesed turning him into victim and making Mane Cast guilty party.

They are like the others. Strange, hideous, resisting, fighting. Only these were not like the others. They did not die.

#52255 Mio Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:04:09 PM

And yet he didn't listen to reason in the first place, which would ave saved him a lot of aggravation. I guess he only stared caring after Fluttershy used the stare on him?

Oh well, I really didn't care much for Dragonshy anyway.

edited 10th Dec '11 5:04:25 PM by Mio

#52256 kegisak Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:04:18 PM

he also said it was almost ripe - sort of implies growth, there. But still, it doesn't quite mean growth automatically.

he just woke up. Have you ever listened to a polite plea to reason seconds after you woke up?

noone is trying to villify them! Garg! Can we please move on and stop arguing about minutae about points we are all generally in agreement over? Please?

edited 10th Dec '11 5:06:06 PM by kegisak

#52257 Applelight Limited Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:04:58 PM from Manehattan to Canterlot from Manehattan to Canterlot

@ Red

Well, the weather is made in a factory, so maybe gems are grown. It's fanon, but it's possible.

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#52258 gingerninja 666 Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:05:05 PM from Aboard The Damocles from Aboard The Damocles

He also mentioned that the gem is almost ripe.

Do gems ripen in Real Life?

edited 10th Dec '11 5:06:28 PM by gingerninja666

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#52259 Death Cloud Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:06:35 PM from SD Lucifer from SD Lucifer

But gems maybe can grow in MLPFIM world.

They are like the others. Strange, hideous, resisting, fighting. Only these were not like the others. They did not die.

#52260 Pannic Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:08:18 PM

Crystals are mostly formed by slow-cooling magma, right?

I was more perplexed by the tuning fork... the hell is that for? It isn't gonna ring at a different pitch depending on what it hits.

edited 10th Dec '11 5:10:09 PM by Pannic

#52261 kegisak Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:09:50 PM

But we don't know that for sure. That's what we're talking about now.

#52262 Applelight Limited Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:10:04 PM from Manehattan to Canterlot from Manehattan to Canterlot

Oh, maybe I could dig up my gem forge idea again!

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#52263 Great God Pan Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:10:14 PM from The Woods. Where else? from The Woods. Where else?

Maybe in Equestria, fruits take a long time to grow...?

Uh, I got nothing :/

Spooky.

#52264 Crowind Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:11:28 PM

I said that gems can be grown because Pinkie said that her family were rock farmers. It's Pinkie, but I figure that if we can have dragons and talking ponies then sure, growing rocks.

If I remember my O-chem class correctly then you can coax molecules to form crystals by seeding them with more crystals.

I was about to pull up a nonsense about different crystal structures -> distinct chemical bonds that are more resonant to some wavelengths than others, and then I remember what tuning forks are actually used for.

edited 10th Dec '11 5:16:20 PM by Crowind

#52265 kegisak Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:12:38 PM

@Ginger: Come to think of it... Gems might ripen. Different gems are formed a lot differently, I think, so the rocess of creating them might be different. For example an 'unripe' diamond might have some traces of coal left in it.

#52266 Kyler Thatch Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:13:22 PM

My guess is that he's feeling whether the crystal is vibrating with the tuning fork.

Heh, tuning fork. Almost sounds like silverware.

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#52267 Ace Of Scarabs Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:14:32 PM from Singapore from Singapore

Gems can totally be grown. Some kinds of Quartz and even Copper Sulphate crystals can be cultivated.

Equestrian gems are probably partially magical in composition, which is why they can be harvested with a pre-cut look.

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#52268 Will Keaton Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:14:49 PM from Alberta, Canada from Alberta, Canada

Um, actually crystals ARE grown.

Or at least they do grow. It's not like there are diamond farms anywhere. And of course they don't naturaly appear with that perfect cut shape but we already have a trope for that.

edited 10th Dec '11 5:18:03 PM by WillKeaton

#52269 Pannic Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:16:21 PM

Man, that feel when I don't feel smart.

But yeah. If tuning forks vibrated at different pitches depending on what they hit, they'd be pretty much useless.

#52270 gingerninja 666 Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:18:36 PM from Aboard The Damocles from Aboard The Damocles

I'll up your stupidness Pannic

I don't even know what Tuning Forks are for!

edited 10th Dec '11 5:18:56 PM by gingerninja666

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#52271 Ace Of Scarabs Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:20:43 PM from Singapore from Singapore

Pinkie is a certified geologist and rock/crystal farmer. She just doesn't like doing most of that stuff because it bores her.

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#52272 Red Savant Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:21:13 PM from Eastern US from Eastern US

My point being, Wil, gems that have already been mined don't continue to become more gemmish. =)

Tuning forks are designed to vibrate at specific pitches, Ginger. You smack one against a table or something and listen to the sound it makes, and then you can tune an instrument against that pitch.

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#52273 Kyler Thatch Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:21:28 PM

For no apparent reason, I suddenly want a tuning fork.

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#52274 Pannic Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:22:00 PM

Basically, a tuning fork is used for a musician (mainly a singer) to find the pitch. Your standard tuning fork is tuned to 440 Hrz, which is an A4. From there, the singer finds the starting pitch for whatever they're singing.

#52275 Ace Of Scarabs Sat, 10th Dec '11 5:23:24 PM from Singapore from Singapore

Spike was using the tuning fork to test the purity and stability of the gem structure by frequency, a trick he either learnt from Twi's library or from Pinkie.

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