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#66676 gingerninja 666 Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:09:25 PM from Aboard The Damocles

Well how do you know that ISN'T the case? Maybe certain "signs" actively contribute to the growing process while others just herald it? We don't know.

edited 7th Jan '12 5:09:36 PM by gingerninja666

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#66677 Applelight Limited Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:11:19 PM from Manehattan to Canterlot

Yeah it really does seem like the Everfree Forest does have a set of rules...it's just that no pony knows what they are...

Somepony invent a big tank thing and go exploring!

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#66678 Seraphem Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:12:48 PM from Delamare

and again, Not understanding =/= not existing, in terms of rules. Even today there are some things that we know happen, and can predict and explain how they will happen, but we just can not figure out WHY they do so. Same for Everfree, just because the ponies dont understand it doesn't mean they COULDN'T do so if they really tried.

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#66679 gingerninja 666 Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:15:15 PM from Aboard The Damocles

Again, I think it's one of those things that they'll never understand. Like the Pinkie Sense.

That's what I've been TRYING to say

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#66680 Japanese Teeth Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:16:55 PM from Meinong's jungle

Yeah, I think most of them are just too chicken to go in there and figure it out because of all the dangerous crap.

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#66681 gingerninja 666 Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:17:34 PM from Aboard The Damocles

I'm reminded of this

video

Even if they understood it, I don't think they'd be able to emulate the stuff that goes on in the forest

edited 7th Jan '12 5:18:23 PM by gingerninja666

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#66682 storyyeller Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:18:12 PM from Appleloosa

Hell, nopony know exactly what happened in the everfree forest when Granny Smith found those zap apples the first time. They just know she seemed awfully funny when she came back, like maybe she weren't quite the same somehow. Some days her folk's'd find her just sittin' out on the porchin, starin at the forest. Never movin' a muscle, never sayin' a word, just starin'. Mighty peculier, folks used to think. But she knew things, she did. Started makin' Zap apple jam before you knew it. Knew exactly how to make it, too. Knew how to farm the land just right, knew how to talk to the animals just right too.

Mighty Peculiar, that little Miss Smith was. Always looked so pretty, sittin there in the sunshine, starin' away. Why, the colt's'd come for miles just to get a look at her. She was mighty popular with em', you know. Got em' helping out on the farm. Why if it weren't for all the colts come around asking for her hoof in marriage, I'll bet there never woulda been a ponyville. Course she only ever had eyes for one stallion. Never married again, after he passed on. She just kept on goin', looking after the kids, and the grandkids... and the great grandkids... It's no wonder she's so peculiar, an account of how old she is. Mighty peculiar, that Granny Smith. Day after day, just lookin' away at the everfree forest.

Still ain't nopony who knows just went on in there that night she found the zap apples for the first time...

Is this a reference to something?

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#66683 Mio Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:18:26 PM

The pony scientist community really lacks initiative.

edited 7th Jan '12 5:19:27 PM by Mio

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#66684 Applelight Limited Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:19:29 PM from Manehattan to Canterlot

I really think some pony should build a big tank/bulldozer thing and go explore the Everfree Forest.

Just make sure it's got plenty of rotary barrelled goodness.

edited 7th Jan '12 5:20:07 PM by ApplelightLimited

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#66685 gingerninja 666 Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:20:15 PM from Aboard The Damocles

Will NO ONE listen to me?!?!

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#66686 Ace Of Scarabs Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:20:32 PM from Singapore

I guess ponies have less of a SCIENCE bent than humans (I mean look at the likes of Black Mesa and Aperture!)

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#66687 cfive Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:21:02 PM

My theory is that the evertree forest reacts to quantum physics. It behaves differently depending on if it is observed.

#66688 Servbot Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:23:38 PM

Just finished the latest episode.

Holy crap! Did not expect the origin story!

The pony scientist community really lacks initiative.

Well, you must admit. It's kinda hard to study the how of things when they're trying to eat/roast/curse/petrify you.

#66689 The Freeman Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:23:46 PM from Hialeah,FL.

I listened.

I ALWAYS LISTEN

edited 7th Jan '12 5:23:59 PM by TheFreeman

Once again, now where do I start, dear love...

#66690 Ace Of Scarabs Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:24:12 PM from Singapore

Zap-apples are a random event with some unusual RN triggers. Granny Smith memorized the RN manipulation sequence to trick the Zap-apple spawning to become a regular thing.

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#66691 Badwolfwho Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:24:20 PM

Celestia must be really lax on Scientific Funding. Either that or the scientific community in Equestria wastes all of their money.

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#66692 gingerninja 666 Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:24:26 PM from Aboard The Damocles

What's the point in having everything explained to you? Does no one remember the moral of Feeling Pinkie Keen?

Some things just can't be explained scientifically. Doesn't stop them from being real. Same for Equestria. Even if the ponies did find out how the forest works, they'd never be able to emulate it

edited 7th Jan '12 5:26:01 PM by gingerninja666

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#66693 Badwolfwho Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:25:28 PM

What's wrong with knowing how something works?

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#66694 Mio Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:26:43 PM

I really think some pony should build a big tank/bulldozer thing and go explore the Everfree Forest. Just make sure it's got plenty of rotary barrelled goodness.

You mean this.

Sorry, needs moar dakka.

@Ginger: Calm down, I think we are all aware that we will not get an in-universe explination. We're just having a bit of fun speculating.

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#66695 Applelight Limited Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:26:55 PM from Manehattan to Canterlot

...I'd build that tank.....paint a shark mouth on it and everything...then pile a bunch of assault cannons on it...

edited 7th Jan '12 5:29:42 PM by ApplelightLimited

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#66696 gingerninja 666 Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:27:54 PM from Aboard The Damocles

The simple act of not knowing how something works ISN'T a flaw though. The POINT of this episode is that we don't know WHY the forest works like it does, it just does. It's also consistant, and the Ponies are capable of taking advatage of that

I don't like it when people try to say that a lack of explanation is automatically a flaw

edited 7th Jan '12 5:28:50 PM by gingerninja666

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#66697 Fallen Legend Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:29:15 PM from Mexico City!

Science is cool. But part of the fun is not having all the answers

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C. S. Lewis

#66698 kegisak Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:30:03 PM

@Storyteller: Nah, just got bored and went on one of my little story tangents.

#66699 Servbot Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:30:40 PM

The Pony science community should really start some sort of exchange program with the Zebra science community. The latter seems to have a large enough collection of data on the Everfree Forest to have Zecora live there comfortably and continue studying it.

#66700 Applelight Limited Sat, 7th Jan '12 5:31:56 PM from Manehattan to Canterlot

@ Mio

I saw your bit in the fanon thread. I like it, but I can't get bogged down in there till after Tuesday, which will give me plenty of time to comment on it and post the boar stuff...

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