01 - Sci-Twi - Equestria Girls - Coffee Shop

[elementofnerdity]

This is scientifically impossible, but after what I've seen, this is improbable at best.

Our world's been connected to your Duck officially and now we're getting visitors from all sorts of people. Can you make sure to tell us when we're going to get spill-overs?

Also, hi, Twilight Sparkle here from Canterlot City. The Human one. I guess we're connected now! Everyone on my end should be connected. I'd speak for some, but Sunset and the others are all off playing some kind of game with keys and Disney and stuff.

In any case, hi! AMA. What do you want to know about our world?

Comments

[elementofnerdity]

It's um... like 3 1/2 centimeters.

[soft_focus]

[Reira takes this moment to measure a distance between her two hands. She seems to be doing some internal math and.]

...That's really small... [She half whispers, sounding almost awed.]

[elementofnerdity]

Well, it's not that small. Some horses are much bigger but we are talking about small ponies after all.

[soft_focus]

It's less than fourteen duel monster cards.

[Dats Small.]

[elementofnerdity]

Not quite. A hand is four inches and a normal horse is about I want to say 19 hands? Or so? A pony is about 14 hands.

That's how they measure out horses in Equestria I believe.

[soft_focus]

But you said a hand was 3 and a half centimeters..!

[No she said one inch was that many.]

[elementofnerdity]

No, no, a inch is about 3 1/2 centimeters and a hand is about four inches wide. Get it?

[Ah metric to whatever Reira used.]

[soft_focus]

[Alright, more mental math...and a bit more space between her hands to stare at for that matter, but-]

Oh...

...That makes sense I guess.

[elementofnerdity]

Yeah, it's a old measurement, so it's not something that usually is used.

[soft_focus]

If it's so old, why do they still use it thought?

[elementofnerdity]

Because it's still a standard for measuring horses.

[soft_focus]

Yeah, but why!

Why didn't they measure horses like they measure other things after a while?

[elementofnerdity]

Honestly, I'll have to look that up. It's probably got something to do with Equestrian breeding and standardized measurements across the old measurement system.

[soft_focus]

Umnhh...okay.

[She'll just take that at face value then.] Umn, thank you for explaining things!

[She's learning the thank yous are Important.]