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[Fniff]

Bronies are zoophiles...?

[Dsarker]

Honestly, if humans did discover Equestria, a lot of bronies would be very quick to go hang out with them. A lot of zoophiles would probably try to hook up with what they presume to be a sentient race that could offer an animal body with intelligent thought.

Redundant much?

Sorry, where's the redundancy?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Well on one hand there's bronies, on the other there's the whole "sentient, self-aware form of life" thing. I'd expect a lot of people would come to defend the ponies simply for the fact they are talking, intelligent ponies.

[Furtuka]

If things went badly and humans killed the ponies, wouldn't that eventually lead to Discord escaping cause of the elements of harmony being ownerless?

[Sonlirain]

Honestly, if humans did discover Equestria, a lot of bronies would be very quick to go hang out with them. A lot of zoophiles would probably try to hook up with what they presume to be a sentient race that could offer an animal body with intelligent thought.

Redundant much?

Sorry, where's the redundancy?

Because the pony hangout would OBVIOUSLY became under siege by:
Bronies
Zoophiles
Furries

[Dsarker]

Well on one hand there's bronies, on the other there's the whole "sentient, self-aware form of life" thing. I'd expect a lot of people would come to defend the ponies simply for the fact they are talking, intelligent ponies.

"What, you mean this animal I shot? It was intelligent?


Prove it."

[TheBronzePickle]

I probably wouldn't bother proving it. They'd be in their own special hell.

[Fniff]

I guess The Elements would choose a random selection of people who fall under the elements. Guess I would fall under... none of them. Maybe kindness, but that's a little too strong. I consider myself a nice guy, but I'm not really up for it. I'm not exactly a paragon of kindness. I'm just some guy.

[Dsarker]

Oh, but you'd want to. Otherwise it's a credible defence for murder. "He was already brain dead, sir."

[Dsarker]

I guess it would choose a random selection of people who fall under the elements. Guess I would fall under... none of them. Maybe kindness, but that's a little too strong. I consider myself a nice guy, but I'm not really up for it. I'm not exactly a paragon of kindness. I'm just some guy.

Oh, but they all have to be friends too.

[Sonlirain]

Well on one hand there's bronies, on the other there's the whole "sentient, self-aware form of life" thing. I'd expect a lot of people would come to defend the ponies simply for the fact they are talking, intelligent ponies.

"What, you mean this animal I shot? It was intelligent?


Prove it."

I think them using tools and building houses coupled with speaking/writing in english AND tribal tatoos (cutie marks) on their flanks should be enough for everyone par the dimmest of people.

[Silfurdreki]

Equestria is assumed to be the name of the pony nation, with the planet being unnamed. Mention of Orion's Belt suggests a planet near where Earth is, but that still leaves a bit of wiggle room depending on how close to earth Orion's Belt actually is (can't be damned to Google it).

Now that I think about it, since constellations are heavily dependent on where you're standing (cosmically), they're pretty much certain to be in the exact same position as earth. Just in another dimension or something. If they were on alpha centauri (nearest star system to earth), several constellations would be quite different.

This. I did some simple math in the old thread that showed that Equestria (the planet), based on what constellations they've mentioned in the show, cannot be any other planet than Earth if it exists in this universe. Unless there's some freakish coincidence that made an exact copy of a large part of the Milky Way somewhere else, of course. Let me dig it up... Ah, here:

This is very true, but since our constellations include the brightest stars on the sky, which are also generally the closest, the Pony Planet would have to be very close to earth for this to be possible.

You also have the problem of parallax. Many constellations include stars that are very far from each other in actual 3D space, but happen to look like they lie close to each other from Earth. Moving merely to the closest star from Earth (~4 light years) would make these constellations look very different since closer stars will seem to move in respect to other, more distant ones.

A simple estimation of the parallax of the closest star of Orion (since it's explicitly mentioned in the series),Bellatrix  ~240 ly away, with respect to the farthest bright star in the same constellation (Alnilam ~1300 ly away) and a 4 light-year base line shows that Bellatrix will move roughly 3/4 of a degree in relation to Alnilam. If you do the same thing with Scorpius (closest star is ~16 ly away) you get a whooping 17 degree parallax. More than enough to render the constellation unrecognisable.

Regarding the helio or geocentricity of Equestria; I think the Equestrian solar system is heliocentric, Twilight is writing something on comets in ep. 24, they would not have comets in that way without a massive star. What if Celestia/Luna actually don't raise the moon and sun as such, but instead make the moon and Equestria (planet) spin around it's axis? For whatever reason, the Equestrian planet-moon system has lost all angular momentum and needs to be driven by alicorn magic. NMM would make it eternal night by preventing Celestia from making the planet spin.

[Dsarker]

Well on one hand there's bronies, on the other there's the whole "sentient, self-aware form of life" thing. I'd expect a lot of people would come to defend the ponies simply for the fact they are talking, intelligent ponies.

"What, you mean this animal I shot? It was intelligent?


Prove it."

I think them using tools and building houses coupled with speaking/writing in english AND tribal tatoos (cutie marks) on their flanks should be enough for everyone par the dimmest of people.

Really?

Well, whoops, I guess I shouldn't have set fire to/laid explosives in their buildings, should I?

[Sonlirain]

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You are a proper DF forumer.
I salute you.

Man - Worse than satan if he was a pedophile.

[Fniff]

Hm.

Right. Let's assume that you are going to erase the possibility of accidentally shooting a totally sentient pony. Skin the pony alive, burn the flesh. Or make it into coats and suits, and sell it to high class people. I mean, a fur-suit made out of pegasus wings or cutie marks would be quite the money-bringer. You could make a pretty damn good business out of it, now that I think about it. You get rid of the body, you get money from it... It's not foolproof, but you could get enough to get a damn fine lawyer for your case.