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    Quote Originally Posted by ScionoftheVoid View Post
    Oh yes, someone was asking who had the Ship Note at the moment? I have a page, from all the way back when Thanquol stole it.
    Are we going to have tons of "who's got the magical artifact of doom/shipping, now?" shenanigans?

    Also, Samurai Applejack for those who haven't seen her.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aotrs Commander View Post
    I'm almost tempted, but it wouldn't fit over my armour.

    *glare*

    Also, I have duties to attend to which I'm doing right now, boss!
    I could enchant it to be effective as armor.

    Waaaaagh!

    *keels over backwards*

    Well, I've got the former and the latter down, at any rate...

    Can't we just skip the middle one?
    Nicely done, but no. xD

    Wait, wait, wait. You have a girlfriend and a crush who's girlfriend you want assassinating1? And all those Elves (and whatever is left of Spleenripper.)

    Fickle, aren't we?
    Nope!
    Fickle would imply that I switched between them. I am the goddess of love and lust, the firstborn child and the herald of the shipping goddess. I love them all constantly.

    1By the by, on that issue, how does being repeatedly squished under the hull of a Hammer of Hatred heavy grav-tank bouncing up and down on them sound? I find it works wonders on vampires; especially because it takes ages for them to be crushed into a fine enough paste they can't heal. Fun for everyone!
    Sounds excellent. I approve!

    Quote Originally Posted by EsperDerek View Post
    *Midnight blinks curiously, her ears twitching slightly as Lix whispers that secret into her ear.

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    "Wow...that's actually pretty cunning! I'm impressed! Don't worry, your secret is safe with me. It's not like I use mine too much unless I'm n the midst of being Midnight Mare.
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    "Oh, good to hear, thanks!" I reply happily. "Oh, and there's no worries on the colour sharing, by the way. Looks good on your voice."


    *Midnight giggles.
    "Remind me someday to tell you some of the stories about growing up with two of the most overprotective mothers in the world. ^^"
    Giggle right back. "I sure will! Sounds fun!"


    *Midnight snuggles Lixie!
    She snuggles BACK!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Thanqol View Post
    It's like the feng shui version of an orbital death laser.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vent Reynolt View Post
    Ponies are awesome. Gurren Lagann is awesome. I expect to Ponyard do the impossible and kick reason to the curb! I don't have much else to say here, except good luck, and have fun with writing it!
    Thats all coming soon. I'm planing powering the "spiral power" with the elements of ponythread in addition to the whole "will power" thing. So in short, the more of the elements of ponythread that are present, the more powerful the outcome becomes.

    maybe even powerful enough to put Mcerberus in space? With his own fleet? To engage a certain space lich?

    So what are the requirements to turn something into an artifact of the ponythread?
    ADVENTURE!!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rebelhero View Post
    So what are the requirements to turn something into an artifact of the ponythread?
    Charisma enough to get away with it.

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    The leaves the question of the Party Note. What dark powers does it TRULY have?
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    Quote Originally Posted by MCerberus View Post
    The leaves the question of the Party Note. What dark powers does it TRULY have?
    Beats me. Every time I try to write anything in it, my pen turns to frosting.
    I'm developing a game. Let's see what happens! Complex.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lix Lorn View Post
    Nicely done, but no. xD
    Can't blame a Lich for trying...

    Quote Originally Posted by Lix Lorn
    Nope!
    Fickle would imply that I switched between them. I am the goddess of love and lust, the firstborn child and the herald of the shipping goddess. I love them all constantly.
    I am really hoping that doesn't mean what I think it means, but I suspect, knowing you, that it is exactly what I think it means...

    Quote Originally Posted by Lix Lorn
    I could enchant it to be effective as armor.
    So, to be fair, could we; but we have a regulation uniform and armour, Hopereaver does not get to ignore them just because she's female.

    Aw.

    Hush. When-

    Sir?

    Hang on a sec, folks, actual business calls...

    Hmm. Hopereaver, we're getting some unusual reading from the Salatisn system. Can't tell what from this distance, my first guess would be some sort of FTL transits of a type we're not familiar with. Portal-drive type...ah, looks like it might be superspace related.

    Stone Portals, then?

    Could well be, since they're the only crowd I know who currently use superspace. Could just be some scattered ships from their rout, but we better make sure. Take the Soulstealer, Curserake, Kreeyak and some escorts and check it out.

    Will do, sir. Back in a couple of days.

    And Hopereaver?

    Sir?

    Be careful.

    I want you back in one piece.

    Y'know, so I berate you some more. And not have to break in a new attache. And all that.

    Understood, sir!

    Perfectly.


    Quote Originally Posted by Lix Lorn
    Sounds excellent. I approve!
    I'm afraid we'll have to postpone our assassination temporarily, as it seems we may actually have to do so real work around here, and I might need all hands to the pump.

    Quote Originally Posted by Rebelhero View Post
    maybe even powerful enough to put Mcerberus in space? With his own fleet? To engage a certain space lich?
    Again, tempting though it wouldn't be to engage in a really highly unequal battle I wouldn't wish on MCerberus, see above.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheAmishPirate View Post
    Beats me. Every time I try to write anything in it, my pen turns to frosting.
    It obviously needs to pick its owner. Maybe a secretly powerful pony that is strong in the ways of ponysanity can. Oh look, Midnight, there's a pen by your hoofs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aotrs Commander View Post
    Can't blame a Lich for trying...
    Of course I could!
    Can't FAIRLY blame a Lich for trying. xD

    I am really hoping that doesn't mean what I think it means, but I suspect, knowing you, that it is exactly what I think it means...
    ...actually, it doesn't. xD

    I'm afraid we'll have to postpone our assassination temporarily, as it seems we may actually have to do so real work around here, and I might need all hands to the pump.
    I can see...

    I'm guessing you'd like me to leave the bridge then...
    (Telepathically)
    YOU LIKE HOPEREAVER
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    It's like the feng shui version of an orbital death laser.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lix Lorn View Post
    Of course I could!
    Can't FAIRLY blame a Lich for trying. xD
    Touche, Lix touche.

    Quote Originally Posted by Lix Lorn
    I can see...

    I'm guessing you'd like me to leave the bridge then...
    Yes.

    Yes, because I have things to do, like watch the readings and such.

    Sir, we won't know anything for a couple of day unti-oh! I mean, absolutely, sir! I mean, they might change any second or something! You better continuously watch to keep us appraised! Which will require your total concentration! Preventing you from doing other things!

    *skullpalm*

    Yes, yes, thank you, Star-Sergeant. Why don't you go an deal with your duties now.

    Yes, sir!

    Quote Originally Posted by Lix Lorn
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    YOU LIKE HOPEREAVER
    Bwaaaah!

    Well, yes, like, but not like, like silly, goddess. Given he's, sorry, she's been working as my attache for the last half-a-decade, we do have a share certain camraderie, yes. She's a pretty good sidekick to have in a fight too. Which is as far as it goes; purely platonic and all that.



    Anyhoo, moving (very) swiftly on...

    Quote Originally Posted by Aotrs Commander View Post
    Also, can anyone name me a currently existant pony with a dark blue hide and yellow or red hair (and a picture of said pony's cutie mark)? Canon/fanon optimally?
    So, anyone? I has a pony-related plan for which I need said suitable pony...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aotrs Commander View Post
    Comparitively sane. Which says a lot about the rest of you, when the racially insane abomination (used to) look well-balanced in comparsion...
    well, being a beast of selective attention, I see hear that you are racially insane, which I guess just proves my point! I mean, being comparatively sane, that means you are as sane as a hugh man compared to the ponies.

    ... That's it!

    Okay, so it didn't work quite as well I'd hoped. (It was because Spike was there, wasn't it, damn you all!)
    A little bit, yeah.

    Quote Originally Posted by Thanqol View Post
    This freaked me out. The whole time during the slow parts, my reptile brain noticed the movement and panicked while my mammal brain was all "huh?". I kept moving the screen farther away to keep her the same approximate size.

    But, those eyes...

    Quote Originally Posted by ScionoftheVoid View Post
    Tired, brutalised and generally as if I'm on about 3 Con (which is mostly because I am). Let's do this!
    interesting, interesting. Was this before or after the Constitution Drain? Do you feel chilled? In a good or bad way?

    You think you're bad? I didn't get the actual joke bit until I reread it when the Commodore quoted it. I had already laughed anyway.
    That just means you can appreciate my sophisticated and subtle sense of humor, not that you're bad.

    Lix Lorn is the obvious choice for new Sane Pony.
    Yes! Of course, it all makes sense!
    Lix Lorn is the purest example of sanity as a pony. We must cast off the chains of a humanocentric psychological profile!

    Quote Originally Posted by Sweetie Welf View Post
    In the old days those were supposed to be male? Rd is more male than them, and she likes to wear pretty dresses.
    That is really funny, on account of the discussion I've been having. Ouch, perspective. Ouch.

    Considering that Australia is covered with a 1 meter thick layer of poisonous snakes and insects and local only abominations talking a walk sounds pretty impressive.
    you've got a point there. It's only no longer impressive if you buy some antidote.

    Quote Originally Posted by EsperDerek View Post
    But....but....I'm the one who came *up* with the term ponysane...I'm the Element of Pony! You can't take that away from me!
    No, not ponysane, sane pony! Ponysane is what I would be if I wasnt a pony. But since I am a pony, I can't be ponysane, I'm just regular sane. Because I'm a pony.

    I dare anyone to prove otherwise.

    Quote Originally Posted by Sweetie Welf View Post
    I'll be still insane after it isn't cool.

    I found the post with the pony socks.

    So these things are available in California. So why haven't we seen SiuiS and his (allegedly) sexy legs in one of those so far?
    Wait, what?

    Oh hey, pony socks!
    Would you believe I never knew these existed until after Sweetie Welf made me double take on the link?

    Quote Originally Posted by the_druid_droid View Post
    Ironically, I did more catch-up after the mega-post day than during it...

    Anyway, had to help a friend move, but I'm back now and can maybe post semi-regularly again.

    There are things I wanted to reply to, but instead I'll just say you all rock and keep up the delightful insanity we've all come to know and love.

    Oh, it's also come to my attention that I owe some posters my fanning and grape-dispensing services?
    Sorry, position is taken.

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    Ironically, position of grape eater has been taken as well. Seems I'm out of a job in the new regime.

    Ah, the good ol' days. Where I spent more time headhunting toys at mcdonalds than posting on a pony thread. Now I have eight tiny plastic friends to be pony with. Yay!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aotrs Commander View Post
    Yes.

    Yes, because I have things to do, like watch the readings and such.

    Sir, we won't know anything for a couple of day unti-oh! I mean, absolutely, sir! I mean, they might change any second or something! You better continuously watch to keep us appraised! Which will require your total concentration! Preventing you from doing other things!

    *skullpalm*

    Yes, yes, thank you, Star-Sergeant. Why don't you go an deal with your duties now.

    Yes, sir!
    (snicker)
    I'mma gonna leave the bridge cause I feel merciful, but for the record, I'm not THAT stupid.

    Bwaaaah!

    Well, yes, like, but not like, like silly, goddess. Given he's, sorry, she's been working as my attache for the last half-a-decade, we do have a share certain camraderie, yes. She's a pretty good sidekick to have in a fight too. Which is as far as it goes; purely platonic and all that.

    Anyhoo, moving (very) swiftly on...
    COURSE not like that. (snicker) I'll keep your secret, oh lovestruck lich.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SiuiS View Post
    interesting, interesting. Was this before or after the Constitution Drain? Do you feel chilled? In a good or bad way?


    After the Con drain. Don't feel chilled, particularly. Feeling oddly well considering the experience, though that may just be the ponysanity setting in.

    Quote Originally Posted by SiuiS View Post
    That just means you can appreciate my sophisticated and subtle sense of humor, not that you're bad.
    No, it means I have a very twisted mind. Trust me on this.

    Quote Originally Posted by SiuiS View Post
    Yes! Of course, it all makes sense!
    Lix Lorn is the purest example of sanity as a pony. We must cast off the chains of a humanocentric psychological profile!
    That works, too, I suppose (and the justification for not choosing Midnight still stands, even).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lix Lorn View Post
    (snicker)
    I'mma gonna leave the bridge cause I feel merciful, but for the record, I'm not THAT stupid.
    *shrug* I gotta try...

    In fact, people often say I'm very trying...

    Quote Originally Posted by Lix Lorn
    COURSE not like that. (snicker) I'll keep your secret, oh lovestruck lich.
    *skulldesk*

    Heck, I've not known she was a girl for twenty-four hours yet; even if I was even remotely romantically inclined - which I'm not - moving to fast there, aren't we? I'll let Bobcat explain why It Does Not Work Like That outside of (bad) fanfiction...

    ...

    I'd even lie and say "yes" if I thought it'd help stop you stalking me, but that would only encourage you, now wouldn't it?

    Quote Originally Posted by SiuiS View Post
    A little bit, yeah.
    Harsh, dude, harsh.

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    Hey, brainwave!

    Lix, I bet Spike would really, really appreciate the attention of a Love Goddess right about all-the-time! You should go and comfort him. Right now. And stay there. Y'know, in case he needs you. At a moment's notice. For stuff...

    (Maybe I can get something out of all the crazy...!)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aotrs Commander View Post
    Again, tempting though it wouldn't be to engage in a really highly unequal battle I wouldn't wish on MCerberus, see above.
    Oh well, just a thought. Ponyard and company are still tinkering away at understand and using the Spiral Power. Eventually they will breach the sky. I do hope the cold reaches of space give them a warm welcome.

    Also if anyone was wondering why im so adament on the Gurren Lagann thing, its because everyone seems to have a system to base their actions on, mostly D&D, and in kris stife's case Exalted. I dont know either of those systems. so im using one i do know. FORWARD TO TOMORROW!
    ADVENTURE!!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lix Lorn View Post
    Actually...
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    I don't use it. It's a form of mind control, which I only do when I go fully evil. I have a notebook made to look like it. I write in that, and people THINK it's fated. Thus, they give a chance to pairings they otherwise wouldn't try, while ones they /know/ will fail they ignore.
    I notice the use of "when" instead of "if".

    Quote Originally Posted by SiuiS View Post
    Wait, what?

    Oh hey, pony socks!
    Would you believe I never knew these existed until after Sweetie Welf made me double take on the link?
    I also thought it originated from the egophiliac picture until I read the shocking truth a few pages ago.


    And image dump Rarity edition, not that there is any reason

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    How old do you think the ponies are?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grif View Post
    Why do you demand more Internets from me? WHY?

    (tl;dr I want moar. And also a new chapter for the Nightmare War, if you're still writing that.)

    @tonberrian
    A mobile cherry coke dispenser? Sounds like a handy equipment to have.
    Isn't the tee-ell-dee-arr supposed to be shorter than the regular read? XD

    Quote Originally Posted by Aotrs Commander View Post
    Um, MCerberus, my friend, I'm not sure you're fully appreciating the difference in scale between airship and conventional starships.*

    The biggest airship ship ever built in the world is about 250 metres (about 800 foot). (This is about three times the size of a conventional 747.) By comparison, the Spectral Glow*

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    is 219 metres (657 feet) and that's one of the smallest ships in the fleet. At the other end, the Liche's Wrath Class Superdreadnought

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    No decent picture, but to give you an idea, here's a model of one I use for playing my table-top games:



    *(which is one of the larger, but not largest capital ships) is 912 metres (2700 feet, or getting on for half a mile). That's three times the length of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier (and thus roughly twenty-seven times the size and mass, less the difference in shape; eyeballin' it, I'd guess about fifteen or so times the size that as a bottom-end estimate.)

    At these sizes, they are simply way too big for atmospheric operations, especially at space combat speeds and ranges. Conventional starships tend to fight at ranges of between 1-4 light seconds. The Liche's Wrath's main coldbeam cannons have an effective combat range1 of about one-and-a third light seconds (or 250 000 miles), which means they can comfortably hit a target at that range maneouvring at significant fractions of the speed of light (though we seldom reach it, Aotrs drive technology is capable of hitting 0.9 lightspeed on the sublight engines. 0.1-0.3 c is a more typical engagement speed for everyone, though.) So against targets like airships? They are literally standing still, and the starship simply cannot miss. And, of course, the sheer size and power ratio mean that even with the best will in the world, an armoured airship - which is pretty damned good for an airship - simply isn't capable of taking very many - if any - direct hits from a capital warship. (Even with our super-light, advanced alloys and molecular engineering exponetially reducing the required thickness, the Liche's Wrath's super-ablative armour plating is about three metres thick.)

    Just so we're clear - for once - I'm not saying all this just from Aotrs superiority. In terms of ship sizes and energy weapon ranges, we're not atypical for the galactic standard. (Our real benefits come from improved miniturisation, Gate drives and most of all, vastly improved missile technology, with ranges up to 1.25 million miles (approaching seven light-seconds).) The Royal Elven Navy (the REN) have roughly the same ranges with their lazers, and ship sizes are similar; ditto the Cybertanks and so on. The Cybertank Assimilator, which is pretty much the text book definition of "Heavy Cruiser" is about 450m (1350 feet) and their basic hull-shape has long been adapted by lots of powers; it and it's derivatives are one of the most common warship types in the galaxy.
    That was a fun read. But... Isn't 3 meters of ablative armor a little excessive? If I recall correctly, your coldbeams surpass absolute zero1 and generate actual, elemental (fundamental?) cold as a discrete energy, right? How mug kick would that have? I can't see those really cutting through ablative armor at all. Bypassing it to a degree, yes, but...

    Actually, as the coffee slowly trickles through my viscera, into the blood, and thus to the mind, I begin to recall exactly what severe cold snaps do to matter. Neat.

    I need to find a way to get you to talk my ear off, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to give you a sounding board and thus trick you into divulgence. Confound my jack of all, master of none mentality!

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    I've picked mine...
    I need to develop a new, third party of meddlers, plotters and pan-dimensional spectators.

    Although I've always had more fun choosing sides, so I'll go for the Solar Empire, specifically to align myself against most of ponydom! It's not a fight until I'm swimming in foes like Scrooge through his money bin ;D

    Quote Originally Posted by Lix Lorn View Post
    I have one, Midnight has the other.
    I have one! Well, sort of. I've only used it like, once, and it took about a month to kick in... And that may have happened on it's own, so maybe I just have a tacky looking notebook. *shrug*

    Twilight is very much a mothering type.
    Motherly Twilight is the best Twilight. Seriously, her depiction during the CMC talent show is my very favoritest Twilight Sparkle. It made me like her as a person, rather than pity her as a plot element.*

    Oh, silly little pony.
    You ARE a pawn in my game.
    The truest wisdom of a deity is to allow yourself to be among the pawns.
    truth! Though the Deity thing is new to me. I never gave it a second look until all that "gods always succeed against mortals" buggery.

    Being a piece in the game is fun! Though I prefer knight, m'self. Pawn is only fun for the becoming.

    This may seem like very little, but bear in mind I believe it will make you immune to further ship note antics.
    Psh. That can't be true. If it was true, that means I've just been going alon with being ship'd with other ponyfolk of my own volition.

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    Actually...
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    I don't use it. It's a form of mind control, which I only do when I go fully evil. I have a notebook made to look like it. I write in that, and people THINK it's fated. Thus, they give a chance to pairings they otherwise wouldn't try, while ones they /know/ will fail they ignore.
    ...

    Nah, I don't get upset about flirting. Especially roleplay flirting.
    B-But... But... You used the sad pony face! And you didn't mean *it? I am so confused. Also, very, very
    YOURE TEARING ME APART PONYTHREAD

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    But the best choice must clearly be...


    ...Midnight.
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    It'll probably be multiple different viewpoints, probably Twilight/Trixie focused, with some Luna/Spike/others depending on how it goes.
    Yay, more Esper stories!

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    My only concern is that it sounds like a rather long story for the time constraints. Remember, you've got less than a week to write this thing. Other than that, sounds deliciously cliche-worthy, just so long as you remember to keep the tone on the light/parody side.
    However, we all do have faith in you. Can't wait to see how this bundle of bad movie plot comes out! Make it rock, friend.*
    Make it rock.

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    You're tellin' me...

    I mean, "normal" is waaay over-rated, and personally I'd rather eat supernovas than be normal, but even so, limits...
    ... you can eat supernovas?
    That sounds like a wonderful idea! I'll have to figure out how to do it.

    Who knew, eh?

    *censored*
    This is hilarious, because I see the *censored* as her flashing you. You then turn to look, scan your eyesflaming orbital cavities up and down her form, then shrug.

    Because she is a desiccated skeleton.

    I laughed.*

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    You are now being shipped with the abstract concept of not being shipped?

    Am I doing this right, people? I'm new to this.

    And now, just using the word "people" looks funny, but I can't seem to ponyify it. I know, I know, everypony, but I like some variety in my vocabulary.
    I use "folks" because there are people folks and the pony folks. Applejack likes helpin' the pony folks. An' stuff.

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    *Midnight blinks curiously, her ears twitching slightly as Lix whispers that secret into her ear.

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    "Wow...that's actually pretty cunning! I'm impressed! Don't worry, your secret is safe with me. It's not like I use mine too much unless I'm n the midst of being Midnight Mare.
    ... you haven't actually used yours at all.

    Which is pretty neat! All this shipping is happening, and it doesn't use any of the 3 and a half plus page of shipping magic!

    *Midnight giggles.*
    "Remind me someday to tell you some of the stories about growing up with two of the most overprotective mothers in the world. ^^"
    sounds like... A story. *glances meaningfully at the title of 'author'*

    Anyways, you probably won't see any more posts from me until quite late today, we're going out to dinner with the soon-to-be in-laws, and they're quite far away, actually. I'll try to get another excerpt out tonight when I get back.

    Also, don't expect to see me much at all tomorrow, what with the wedding and all.
    wait, you are getting married? I thought you were like, best man or groomsman or something, from the way you've been talking.

    I feel so out of loop'd.

    Relatedly, trying to do multiple smaller quote blocks leaves me feeling even more out of the loop. It's one thing to catch up to you fine folks, another entirely to pop in, shout nonsequitors, and pop out over and over. I don't even know what I'm saying or how it's going over. That's a funny feeling.

    So, sorry, pony thread. But massive text walls are where I'm going to stay.




    1 I remember talking to a science teacher in highschool. When asked, he said absolute zeroe wasn't the lowest possible temperature, just the lowest which occurs naturally or something. Later study yielded the nugget that, at -497 or so degrees C (Celsius? Centigrade? Hay if I know, I didn't follow up on it) matter ceases to exist.
    Sub Zero generates cold of -500 C. So he breaks physics. Or the outlands have different physics.

    *. Not really a foot note. Sorry folks.
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    For sake of my continuity, they still have the necklaces; the necklaces, having their cutie marks, are bonded to them and only them. The necklaces let them access the Rainbow of Light, as long as Twilight Sparkle is there to provide the spark of magic.
    Hipster stamp of approval. (I really need to start reading your guys' fics..)

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    .... To TARGET!!
    I still haven't found these at my local Target...

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    As she slept, she dreamed of the waking world.

    Leaving the library under cover of night, out the window, away from Spike, away from her parents, away from Ponyville... Leaving before discovery, lest she be stopped at her weakest.

    Flying...flying...how was she flying...she was a unicorn, she had no wings, and yet, the world was far below her hooves...Freedom, Freedom in so long, the air rushing past their body...

    A moonless night, Luna's eye turned away from them...this moment carefully chosen by her, her former self could not know until it was time...

    A new residence, the same cave she had heard in Momma's stories about Aunt Fluttershy and the dragon...It was a dank, miserable place, but it would have to do, from here, she would be able to observe while she was fully reborn into the world, and could take the steps necessary to ensure she was never alone...


    A frantic search, watched from afar. Her family, her friends, most of all her three mothers, all of them desperately searching for their loved one, the one that they had raised from birth. Her Mom, weeping, being held tight by her Momma. It was a momentary pain, a pain to be endured. She had endured more, but the one she loved, the one who would ensure she was never alone, she suffered terribly at the sight, no matter what she said...

    Hurting them, hurting them, this wasn't right...she wanted nothing more than to reach out, to hold them, but she wouldn't let her, not yet, not yet. Soon. Shhh...

    Drinking from a puddle, seeing her reflection. Her purple pelt dark, her hair drifting in the non-existent winds. Two wings, comprised of a galaxy of miniature stars, extending from her back.

    Her eyes were green.


    Time. It was time. She was strong once more. The world would love her, she would force all of Equestria to, and in turn, she would love her, for the gift of Equestria.

    Love. This was all about love. But love wasn't selfish. It wasn't supposed to be taking, it was about giving. She had watched...she had watched them still searching for her, all this time. She had hurt them, left *them* alone. No more.

    She looked down at the world that would soon be theirs, and spread her wings.

    And in the darkness, she gathered her strength, and let the love that she was given, and the love that she gave, start to burn bright...
    My interest is officially piqued. I do need to read your fics. I really like your writing style and characterization from what I've seen. (Which has only been what you've posted from these here.)

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    For me, they're late teens/early adults. Like 18-24ish? If I had to pick an age order for the mane six, it would go something like this:

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    -Twilight Sparkle
    -Rainbow Dash
    -Pinkie Pie

    (Based on characterized seeming maturity levels.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by SiuiS View Post
    I remember talking to a science teacher in highschool. When asked, he said absolute zeroe wasn't the lowest possible temperature, just the lowest which occurs naturally or something. Later study yielded the nugget that, at -497 or so degrees C (Celsius? Centigrade? Hay if I know, I didn't follow up on it) matter ceases to exist.
    Sub Zero generates cold of -500 C. So he breaks physics. Or the outlands have different physics.
    Sounds theoretical, and highly questionable. The first problem is that temperature is a measure of the energy of a system, and 0 K (-273.15 C) is a system with no energy. How are you going to get from -274 C to -497 C, when they only way to reduce temperature is to remove energy and there is no more energy to remove? Not to mention the difficulty in measuring such a phenomenon.

    The second problem is that matter = energy, quite literally, and so I would predict seeing matter disintegrate at 0 K anyways. Which would probably produce energy, thus increasing the temperature of the system above 0 K at that point... but I think you get the idea.

    As a side note, there is such a thing as negative temperatures. They aren't "sub 0 K" temperatures, though. They are "plus positive infinity" temperatures. No, I don't know what kinds of mathematical trickery provided that kind of answer. It's not relevant to our discussion, in any case.
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    Oh yes, someone was asking who had the Ship Note at the moment? I have a page, from all the way back when Thanquol stole it.
    Is that a new imposter I see?

    Also, I've decided that the Scoltland Imperial Navy runs on Mutants and Masterminds. That system is the best system.
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    So, no suggestions on any dark blue ponies with yellow/red manes then? Are there even any? My background pony-fu is weak...



    Quote Originally Posted by SiuiS View Post
    That was a fun read. But... Isn't 3 meters of ablative armor a little excessive?
    No, more would be better! Our armour has to proof against all sorts of weapons, including being tough enough to resist things we might not even have heard of! It has to be able to withstand hits from the weapons as diverse as the common anti-matter warheads, the Cybertank's matter-flux warheads, conventional lasers, lazers, particle beams and blasters, heavy beams (i.e. slicey-starship-in-half-y beams), disintegrators, plasma-pulses and of course, railguns or magnetic linear accelerators.

    Starship armour is much more than simple slabs of metal, it's a complex mesh of layered, interlocking components; "ablative" portions to absorb and reflect energy attacks (like "laser", "ablative" has gained a more general meaning), "reactive" parts to disrupt and re-direct explosive or kinetic type attacks, with material with bonds strong enough to drastically decrease the effect of molecular-level attacks (e.g. particle beams, matter-flux, anti-matter or teleport-dispersion effects like the Warp Accelerators in use by the Saturn Syndicate Ascendancy).

    There's not much you can do about larger railguns, of course, except grit your teeth. Of course, they tend to be less murderous than, say anti-matter torpedoes because of their tendancy to over-penetrate and punch out the other side. Some races, like, say the Orc Fearcrushy, have thicker and even more durable armour in thicker layers, but we tend rather to rely on our shields. Ours are significantly better than average at repelling attacks, so we have less spot-failures (against lucky or consentrated fire or the aforementioned railgun slugs moving at excess of light-speed.)

    Quote Originally Posted by SiuiS
    [If I recall correctly, your coldbeams surpass absolute zero1 and generate actual, elemental (fundamental?) cold as a discrete energy, right? How mug kick would that have? I can't see those really cutting through ablative armor at all. Bypassing it to a degree, yes, but...

    Actually, as the coffee slowly trickles through my viscera, into the blood, and thus to the mind, I begin to recall exactly what severe cold snaps do to matter. Neat.
    Yes, coldbeams are very good at shattering matter. A lot of armour is more designed to handle very high temperatures, and nothing lower than absolute zero, so it's a way of circumnavigating some defenses (albeit an energy-costly, because coldbeams use considerably more juice than a similarly sized lazer, though the range characteristics (and actual theoretical maximum damage) are about the same.

    Quote Originally Posted by SiuiS
    I need to find a way to get you to talk my ear off, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to give you a sounding board and thus trick you into divulgence. Confound my jack of all, master of none mentality!
    Oh, I'm quite happy yo talk about this stuff; after all, it's not like I can give you in-depth techinical specs (I'm a necromancer, not a starship engineer), not that you'd be able to use them. (Literally, some of the materials we use are unique to the Aotrs and can only be produced by us, by various methods I really won't go into (because they are classified.)

    Quote Originally Posted by SiuiS
    ... you can eat supernovas?
    That sounds like a wonderful idea! I'll have to figure out how to do it.
    *skullpalm*

    You know, sometimes I do make exaggerated comparisons for humorous effect! I don't always literally mean everything I say! (Clever Hint: if I say, I'd rather do [some random stupid thing] it's usually a sign I'm being sardonic...)

    Quote Originally Posted by SiuiS
    This is hilarious, because I see the *censored* as her flashing you. You then turn to look, scan your eyesflaming orbital cavities up and down her form, then shrug.

    Because she is a desiccated skeleton.

    I laughed.*
    She actually said something unrepeatable.

    Also, to flash me, she'd have had to take her armour off. And, like me, Hopereaver wears the heavier medium body armour (because we both tend to get stuck in to combat on away missions, so we both prefer the extra protection over the standard light body armour normally used by staship crews). That's a fully sealable (because some enviroments are hostile even to creatures that don't need to breath - corrosive atmospheres, for example) suit of synthetic plasteel armour with greaves, so it's not something you can take off quickly. (We also have a heavier suit for drop troops, and of course, full powered armour as well. All our armour is also magic-permable, meaning I don't have to worry about chucking spells with fully suited up.)

    Quote Originally Posted by erikun View Post
    As a side note, there is such a thing as negative temperatures. They aren't "sub 0 K" temperatures, though. They are "plus positive infinity" temperatures. No, I don't know what kinds of mathematical trickery provided that kind of answer. It's not relevant to our discussion, in any case.
    You can't get truly sub-0 K tempertaures in nature, no. You just can't get less than absolute zero, because you can't get less than zero particle movement (as it is physically impossible to have negative movement!)



    With magic or technology well beyond Earth's level, you can utilise elemental cold; which is the opposite of heat, rather than merely it's absence, as "cold" is naturally in the material universe; and this has it's own set of laws and behaviors. (I'm a necromancer, not a physist, at the end of the day, so I'm not easily able to explain it except in broad terms!)
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    Quote Originally Posted by erikun View Post
    Sounds theoretical, and highly questionable. The first problem is that temperature is a measure of the energy of a system, and 0 K (-273.15 C) is a system with no energy. How are you going to get from -274 C to -497 C, when they only way to reduce temperature is to remove energy and there is no more energy to remove? Not to mention the difficulty in measuring such a phenomenon.

    The second problem is that matter = energy, quite literally, and so I would predict seeing matter disintegrate at 0 K anyways. Which would probably produce energy, thus increasing the temperature of the system above 0 K at that point... but I think you get the idea.

    As a side note, there is such a thing as negative temperatures. They aren't "sub 0 K" temperatures, though. They are "plus positive infinity" temperatures. No, I don't know what kinds of mathematical trickery provided that kind of answer. It's not relevant to our discussion, in any case.
    from what I remember of discussions of high school chemistry, theoretically anything that falls below 0 kelvin would become anti-matter
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kairaven View Post
    from what I remember of discussions of high school chemistry, theoretically anything that falls below 0 kelvin would become anti-matter
    No, anti-matter particles are just regular matter particles that have the opposite charges (negatively charged protons, positively charged electrons).

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    Charisma enough to get away with it.
    Or in my case, say something funny enough to get the charismatic ponies to jokingly 'agree' and declare it canon before anyone is the wiser ;D

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    Nope! ... I love them all constantly.
    Aye, it's hard to convince most folks that love isn't a breadth or depth thing; the heart is is not a finite thing, but boundless.

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    No, it means I have a very twisted mind. Trust me on this.
    Oh, I believe you. I was just using you as a springboard for self-flattery. Or trying, at any rate XD

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    *shrug* I gotta try...

    In fact, people often say I'm very trying...
    you allow for dissenting opinions? But you're evil? You are a strange starfaring beast, indeed.

    Lix, I bet Spike would really, really appreciate the attention of a Love Goddess right about all-the-time! You should go and comfort him. Right now. And stay there. Y'know, in case he needs you. At a moment's notice. For stuff...

    (Maybe I can get something out of all the crazy...!)
    I gotta agree with this. Spike needs some love, even just of the hugs and cuddles variety.
    Especially of the hugs and cuddles variety, since Zecora seems to have the rest covered.

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    How old do you think the ponies are?
    20 ish. They are all mature adults, (...at 20? Maybe I should add another five, ten years there...) who just happen to be childishly naive.

    Quote Originally Posted by Aotrs Commander View Post
    So, no suggestions on any dark blue ponies with yellow/red manes then? Are there even any? My background pony-fu is weak...
    Sorry mate, didn't see this before. I'll give it a look-see.

    [/quote]
    No, more would be better! Our armour has to proof against all sorts of weapons, including being tough enough to resist things we might not even have heard of! It has to be able to withstand hits from the weapons as diverse as the common anti-matter warheads, the Cybertank's matter-flux warheads, conventional lasers, lazers, particle beams and blasters, heavy beams (i.e. slicey-starship-in-half-y beams), disintegrators, plasma-pulses and of course, railguns or magnetic linear accelerators.*

    Starship armour is much more than simple slabs of metal, it's a complex mesh of layered, interlocking components; "ablative" portions to absorb and reflect energy attacks (like "laser", "ablative" has gained a more general meaning), "reactive" parts to disrupt and re-direct explosive or kinetic type attacks, with material with bonds strong enough to drastically decrease the effect of molecular-level attacks (e.g. particle beams, matter-flux, anti-matter or teleport-dispersion effects like the Warp Accelerators in use by the Saturn Syndicate Ascendancy).*

    There's not much you can do about larger railguns, of course, except grit your teeth. Of course, they tend to be less murderous than, say anti-matter torpedoes because of their tendancy to over-penetrate and punch out the other side. Some races, like, say the Orc Fearcrushy, have thicker and even more durable armour in thicker layers, but we tend rather to rely on our shields. Ours are significantly better than average at repelling attacks, so we have less spot-failures (against lucky or consentrated fire or the aforementioned railgun slugs moving at excess of light-speed.)[/quote]

    completely forgot about the shields. I can't quite imagine which twists of physics would allow for that kind of technology, though, so I can't even guess at how they would fare.

    Yes, coldbeams are very good at shattering matter. A lot of armour is more designed to handle very high temperatures, and nothing lower than absolute zero, so it's a way of circumnavigating some defenses (albeit an energy-costly, because coldbeams use considerably more juice than a similarly sized lazer, though the range characteristics (and actual theoretical maximum damage) are about the same.
    ... So you spend extra for the exotic weapon, take the EWP feat, and can overcome some DR? :smalbiggrin:


    Oh, I'm quite happy yo talk about this stuff; after all, it's not like I can give you in-depth techinical specs (I'm a necromancer, not a starship engineer), not that you'd be able to use them. (Literally, some of the materials we use are unique to the Aotrs and can only be produced by us, by various methods I really won't go into (because they are classified.)
    neat!

    *skullpalm*

    You know, sometimes I do make exaggerated comparisons for humorous effect! I don't always literally mean everything I say! (Clever Hint: if I say, I'd rather do [some random stupid thing] it's usually a sign I'm being sardonic...)
    I knew how you meant it silly. It was
    "wow, [general you] can do that? [specific me] will have to try that!"
    And speaking of missing a joke by taking something literally...

    She actually said something unrepeatable.*

    Also, to flash me, she'd have had to take her armour off. And, like me, Hopereaver wears the heavier medium body armour (because we both tend to get stuck in to combat on away missions, so we both prefer the extra protection over the standard light body armour normally used by staship crews). That's a fully sealable (because some enviroments are hostile even to creatures that don't need to breath - corrosive atmospheres, for example) suit of synthetic plasteel armour with greaves, so it's not something you can take off quickly. (We also have a heavier suit for drop troops, and of course, full powered armour as well. All our armour is also magic-permable, meaning I don't have to worry about chucking spells with fully suited up.)



    You can't get truly sub-0 K tempertaures in nature, no. You just can't get less than absolute zero, because you can't get less than zero particle movement (as it is physically impossible to have negative movement!)
    Blast. Looks like I hit one to many quotes. So this is directed at Erikun as well.

    Hi Erikun! Having fun?

    I read at one point about a study showing that under enough pressure, matter would overlap. That is, the smallest particles, which theoretically should be utterly solid, rather than having a large percentage of their structure taken up by empty space, would occupy the same space. Despite such a thing being physically impossible.

    So, given that we can have matter occupy other matter (I think it was about phasing, unsure though) and space beyond space a la a hypercube, is it possible to have negative movement? Despite being unable to conceive of negative movement, that is.

    Given that matter is energy is matter, disintegration at crazy impossibly low temperatures makes sense.
    Negative temperatures seem to be a result of the universe not compiling in this specific case the way our general-case equation would say it should. Defining temperature using two other variables is a novel but understandable concept. Silly quantifiers. Some things just are

    And finally; given that I recall absolute zero being defined in celsius scale, I didn't put much stock into it. The most important thing I was taught in school was how very little they actually taught me in school. Aside from "a kilogram is 2.2 pounds", my knowledge of physics is self-taught.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aotrs Commander View Post
    You can't get truly sub-0 K tempertaures in nature, no. You just can't get less than absolute zero, because you can't get less than zero particle movement (as it is physically impossible to have negative movement!)
    * Zero absolute particle movement. It is entirely possible to have positive and negative movement, such as on a number line where positive is in one direction and negative is the opposite. In that case, negative movement would simply be in the direction of the negative "pole".

    There is not a way to have less than no movement, though.

    Quote Originally Posted by Aotrs Commander View Post
    With magic or technology well beyond Earth's level, you can utilise elemental cold; which is the opposite of heat, rather than merely it's absence, as "cold" is naturally in the material universe; and this has it's own set of laws and behaviors. (I'm a necromancer, not a physist, at the end of the day, so I'm not easily able to explain it except in broad terms!)
    Heat transfers from one system to another, until both systems have reached equilibrium. That is, if you have one system at 0 K and another at 300 K (and have the same mass), then you end up with both at 150 K in the end.

    I just treat an "elemental cold" as one system remaining at 0 K, absorbing heat but not changing temperature. Thus, the second system will drop to 150 K, then 75 K, and continue dropping in temperature as long as the elemental cold remains. In that case, you end up with situation resembling radioactive half-lifes, where the "coldness" or the volume doesn't matter as much as how quickly heat can be transferred out of the material object.

    It also produces some fun situations with extremely hot objects. (You will reduce the object to half its current temperature in the same amount of time, regardless of the currect temperature, so starting very hot causes far more temperature stresses.)

    Quote Originally Posted by Kairaven View Post
    from what I remember of discussions of high school chemistry, theoretically anything that falls below 0 kelvin would become anti-matter
    Quote Originally Posted by Kindablue View Post
    No, anti-matter particles are just regular matter particles that have the opposite charges (negatively charged protons, positively charged electrons).
    From what I understand of antimatter, it is simply matter with an opposite electrical charge. This wouldn't really make it "negative temperature" matter, both because having the same properities in the opposite direction isn't a negative temperature (see my first comment above) and that electrical charge is a binary state, not a matter of degrees.

    I'm not saying that you couldn't create antimatter by dropping regular matter below 0 K, but given that we can't even reach 0 K with current technology, it is obviously purely theoretical. And just as clearly not how existing antimatter is formed.

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    Hi Erikun! Having fun?
    Yay for being noticed!

    Quote Originally Posted by SiuiS View Post
    given that I recall absolute zero being defined in celsius scale, I didn't put much stock into it. The most important thing I was taught in school was how very little they actually taught me in school. Aside from "a kilogram is 2.2 pounds", my knowledge of physics is self-taught.
    0 Kelvin = -273.15 Celcius, exactly. (Centigrade is another term for Celcius.) In fact, the definition of Kelvin is to be identical to the Celcius scale (+1 K = +1 C) except that 0 K is set at absolute zero, rather than at the freezing point of water at Standard-Temperature-Pressure.

    Quote Originally Posted by SiuiS View Post
    I read at one point about a study showing that under enough pressure, matter would overlap. That is, the smallest particles, which theoretically should be utterly solid, rather than having a large percentage of their structure taken up by empty space, would occupy the same space. Despite such a thing being physically impossible.

    So, given that we can have matter occupy other matter (I think it was about phasing, unsure though) and space beyond space a la a hypercube, is it possible to have negative movement? Despite being unable to conceive of negative movement, that is.
    Huh, this depends on what we mean by "matter would overlap". If we just mean that it would overcome the standard atomic resistances and having the matter of two atoms in the normal space of one, then that doesn't sound too revolutionary. In fact, that is exactly what happens with plasma, where the standard atomic structure falls apart and we end up with a subatomic "soup".

    If we are talking about literal matter occupying the same space as matter, I'd think we were dealing with quantum trickery or exceptional bending of spacetime, as opposed to the creation of additional dimensions à la a hypercube.

    I'm still not seeing how we would produce negative movement - in the sense of less than no movement, as opposed to moving it into a different direction. I suppose if we are monkeying around with dimensions, we could say that moving it backwards along the time dimension could count as negative movement...

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    Given that matter is energy is matter, disintegration at crazy impossibly low temperatures makes sense.
    Negative temperatures seem to be a result of the universe not compiling in this specific case the way our general-case equation would say it should. Defining temperature using two other variables is a novel but understandable concept. Silly quantifiers. Some things just are
    I believe I read somewhere (or perhaps just throught up) that actual absolute zero would have no energy in the system. None. This includes such things like gravity, electromagnetic, and weak nuclear force. Perhaps this is just how I take the definition to be - if there was some kind of force holding matter together, then it would provide energy for the system and thus keep it above 0 K. Needless to say, without any energy, the matter would simply fall apart. There'd be no chemical bonds to hold molecules together, no magnetism holding atoms together, no WNF holding nuclei together. Everything that makes up matter would just crumble apart.

    It's kind of like matter falling apart with plasma, above, although for the opposite reason.

    I can certainly understand that things which (apparently) ignore standard physics aren't going to behave as we would expect them to. I guess I'm just wondering why matter would still exist for that long to reach such a low actual negative temperature, since there isn't anything holding it together at an actual 0 K.
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