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Who Needs Harmony?: An MLP Empire Quest

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Pittauro said:
...On the talk of "inventions that need other inventions"... I always recommend giving a read/watch to Dr. Stone. the first few chapters/episodes are pretty boring, but after that it's marvelous, and it's always entertaining to see how the (admittedly unrealistically knowledgeable and lucky) main character manages to build all sorts of modern technology basically from scratch.
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Dr. Stone is basically just anime The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, change my mind. In his book, some guys get stuck on an island during the Civil War and reinvent everything with the stuff on hand. His books are the best science fiction because he did the research beforehand and wrote something theoretically possible with the knowledge he had.

He did get some things right, like electric submarines and space launches from Florida. He did think that we would reach the moon using a giant artillery piece, but rockets didn't exist as they are now back then. (Equestria magic makes it a possibility.)
 
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Lurking_Badger said:
Dr. Stone is basically just anime The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, change my mind. In his book, some guys get stuck on an island during the Civil War and reinvent everything with the stuff on hand. His books are the best science fiction because he did the research beforehand and wrote something theoretically possible with the knowledge he had.

He did get some things right, like electric submarines and space launches from Florida. He did think that we would reach the moon using a giant artillery piece, but rockets didn't exist as they are now back then. (Equestria magic makes it a possibility.)
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I can't comment on the island book as I haven't read it, but I definitely LOVED the two moon books.

All in all you really have to admire Verne's foresight. Sure, a cannonball is not exactly a rocket, but it's still pretty close to what actually happened all things considered, and when you consider the moon Landing was considered impossible until not much before it happened by many, and that some people STILL believe it to be fake...
 
Themarineguy said:
Many discoveries often start not with "EUREKA", but with "huh? That's interesting."
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Heck, the microwave oven was invented because some dolt working at a radar station put their chocolate bar too close to some apparatus and the emitted waves caused the bar to melt.

So yeah, a lot of important discoveries were made through sheer dumb luck or or simple fuck-ups.
 
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Lurking_Badger said:
Dr. Stone is basically just anime The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, change my mind. In his book, some guys get stuck on an island during the Civil War and reinvent everything with the stuff on hand. His books are the best science fiction because he did the research beforehand and wrote something theoretically possible with the knowledge he had.

He did get some things right, like electric submarines and space launches from Florida. He did think that we would reach the moon using a giant artillery piece, but rockets didn't exist as they are now back then. (Equestria magic makes it a possibility.)
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One night 100 years from now Celestia is looking through a telescope while talking to Luna;

Celestia: "Huh ... That's new, Luna you have to see this!"
*Luna looks through telescope*
Luna: "... what in tartarus? WHICH ONE OF THOSE BIRDBRAINS PUT A FLAG ON MY MOON? HOW THE HELL DID THEY EVEN GET UP THERE?"
*Celestia dying of laughter in the backround*
Luna: "It's not funny! How would you feel if someone vandalized your sun?"
Celestia: *wipes away tears* "I imagine the fire would take care of that"
 
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Jam jar binks said:
Does the planet we are on have a name? Cause as far as I can tell it's just refered to as "the world"
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not an official one. Common fanon has it called Equus sometime, or Equestria (yes, like the country), but I don't think either is actually canon.

...and to be fair, are we even sure it's actually a planet, and not something else? For all we know this world is actually flat.
 
Pittauro said:
not an official one. Common fanon has it called Equus sometime, or Equestria (yes, like the country), but I don't think either is actually canon.

...and to be fair, are we even sure it's actually a planet, and not something else? For all we know this world is actually flat.
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In EaW, only a continent is named Equus. The other ones are named Zebrica and Griffonia. No name for the planet though.
 
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