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General Discussion / Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« on: October 13, 2011, 07:37:12 pm »
I just got done watching Haruhi Suzumiya no Yuutsu. Are there any crossovers or ponifications from that? I can't seem to find any.

1967
General Discussion / Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« on: October 13, 2011, 06:34:20 pm »
I don't usually like anthro ponies. This one is an exception.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1968
General Discussion / Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« on: October 13, 2011, 05:33:52 pm »
Foal Twilight in glasses... so wonderful in so many ways

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1969
General Discussion / Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« on: October 13, 2011, 10:18:39 am »
Quote from: Dsarker on October 13, 2011, 08:05:35 am
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
One man's acid trip is another man's...yeah, I got nothin'.

Rarity, as a character, got me thinking. She's obviously well-behaved and talented enough to fit in well in a big city and become rich and famous. It's apparent that that's her aspiration. Why hasn't she? She's been friends with Fluttershy for a while, but Canterlot's easy visiting distance.

I think her rather pleasant personality clashes with the stuck up nature of the higher-class ponies in the upper circles. Much as she'd "like" to be up there, she much prefers living among people she can get along with. For all her classiness, in the end she's just a small town girl.

1970
General Discussion / Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« on: October 12, 2011, 08:24:47 pm »
Long fuckton or short fuckton?

1971
General Discussion / Re: The final frontier...
« on: October 12, 2011, 08:13:35 pm »
Obviously, we have to restart the shuttle program and get an orbital shipyard running. It's the only way.

1972
General Discussion / Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« on: October 12, 2011, 08:05:17 pm »
The best friends are the ones who not just tolerate each other's faults, but help one another overcome them. Without each other, the ponies would likely be much less interesting and likable.

Twilight Sparkle is kept out of isolation by her friends, who make sure she gets the exposure and love she needs.

Rainbow Dash is kept in check by the other ponies, who make sure her ego doesn't grow too big and start swallowing her.

Pinkie Pie is given an easy outlet for her destructive energies, as well as the audience she's dependent on.

Fluttershy is, like Twilight, kept out of isolation, but she also is encouraged to become stronger and more secure in herself.

Applejack has a group for her caring tendencies to be spread out on, instead of being bottled up or forced on her poor younger sister (who herself would likely be changed by the stifling overprotection).

No matter how much you might like one of the ponies over the other, you have to consider that they might not be so wonderful if it wasn't for all of them being there in the first place.

1973
Other Games / Re: Cataclysm: A Zombie-Survival Roguelike
« on: October 12, 2011, 04:01:14 pm »
You need a hotplate to cook the chunks of meat you get from the animals.

1974
General Discussion / Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« on: October 12, 2011, 03:58:43 pm »
I think everybody is best pony. They're all interesting characters, and they all are quite a bit nicer than a good chunk of humanity.

They would also be easy to get in favor with, too. Bring Twilight a good book and the two of you could snuggle up and read together. Applejack would likely be glad to reward anyone who helped her out on the farm. Feeding Dash's ego would probably be a quick way into her heart. Pinkie would just love anyone who partied with her a lot. Rarity probably wouldn't mind having someone to talk to and perhaps help her on her busy days. And of course, Fluttershy would totally dig a guy who was gentle and soft-spoken and helped her with the animals.

1975
General Discussion / Re: The final frontier...
« on: October 12, 2011, 03:47:25 pm »
Quote from: Il Palazzo on October 12, 2011, 03:26:03 pm
With the oxygen toxicity at too high pressures I agree. But you've got some weird understanding of the breathing reflex. Yes, breathing is based on CO2, in the sense that high concentrations of it cause you to breathe. The way you describe it, it looks as if it were the other way around, that is low concentrations of CO2 caused you to breathe(or high concentrations caused you to cease breathing), which doesn't make sense.
Sorry about the misconception, I only stated that breathing was based on CO2 concentration. The reason you would keep breathing is that while you have too much 02 coming in, you would be expiring roughly the same amount of CO2 (the trace amount of CO2 in our atmosphere has negligible effect on the concentration gradient). Therefore, even though you have too much oxygen, you keep breathing because your body is still generating CO2 That needs to be expelled.

I think it would be rather nice if we were able to visit, or perhaps even terraform and colonize, Mars. I don't know much about the minerals there except that the surface is covered in oxidized iron, but I'm sure we could probably find some reason to make it worthwhile, even if it's just to be able to wave our giant (inter)national penis spaceship around in everyone else's face.

1976
General Discussion / Re: The final frontier...
« on: October 12, 2011, 02:35:47 pm »
Quote from: Il Palazzo on October 12, 2011, 02:28:29 pm
Quote from: TheBronzePickle on October 12, 2011, 02:18:03 pm
Humans can't breathe pure oxygen well because we breathe based on the amount of CO2 in the blood, not 02. Eventually the blood acquires toxic levels of oxygen and we die.
Huh? The breathing reflex is regulated by the blood levels of CO2, yes. But how does the rest follow?
The less CO2 in your blood, the less "need" you feel to breathe. That is all there is to it.
Besides, people can breathe pure oxygen - and they do, e.g. the astronauts(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_suit#Operating_pressure), patients treated for decompression-sickness(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbaric_oxygenation) and the like.
Sorry, I mean humans can't breathe pure oxygen at atmospheric pressure. That's when it reaches toxic blood levels, because the lungs end up absorbing too much of it. Since breathing is based on CO2, you won't stop breathing just because you have too much O2, and you'll die.

The two examples you show operate at either below atmospheric pressure or in a situation where the extra oxygen is needed because of a deficiency in the person's ability to take in oxygen.

1977
General Discussion / Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« on: October 12, 2011, 02:23:46 pm »
Spoiler: And I would say yes. (click to show/hide)

1978
General Discussion / Re: The final frontier...
« on: October 12, 2011, 02:18:03 pm »
Humans can't breathe pure oxygen well because we breathe based on the amount of CO2 in the blood, not 02. Eventually the blood acquires toxic levels of oxygen and we die.

1979
General Discussion / Re: The final frontier...
« on: October 12, 2011, 01:46:07 pm »
Doesn't the moon supposedly have a boatload of Helium-3 that can be used in nuclear fusion in place of tritium? I've heard that at least once on reasons why we should return to the moon.

1980
General Discussion / Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« on: October 12, 2011, 01:40:28 pm »
'Twas this very thread.

Now I wish I had thread, needle, and cloth. I'd see how well I could crank out a plushie. It'd probably either suck or take me forever to finish, unfortunately.

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