So Large Against the Sky

[twilightpony]

Somehow nearly all of our constellations share the same names as yours. Parallel universes are weird.

For Equestria, space travel is not the option it may be in your universe. Our sky is an illusion where going up eventually leads you back to the ground. The horizons touch at all points and our constellations exist just this side of that convergence. If you could imagine the fourth dimension of space as a cone perpendicular to Equestria and the other three dimensions of space, "outer" space is a point and Tartarus is infinite.

The closer something gets to where the horizons join, the bigger it looks from the ground. During the day, the higher up you fly the hotter it gets due to the inverse square law and getting close to the sun.

Staring up into the nothingness beyond the stars makes me giddy.

Don't ask me to explain gravity. Nopony has that figured out yet.

Comments

[flareblitzfury]

Wow! That's very incredible! Very different from here!

[algernon97]

When we were obsessed with getting to the moon, we used rockets to propel ourselves there. These giant cylinders used solid and liquid fuel to push the astronauts out of the atmosphere and into space, and eventually to the moon.

Of course, your physics are quite different from our physics...

[twilightpony]

A pony can guide a rocket if she is riding it, just like a pony can guide an airship. A rocket might be useful if she's in a really big hurry to travel from Manehattan to Los Pegasus. Generally, we just take the train.

"Space" in Equestria is like the Everfree Forest, only worse with bigger creatures. It's best admired from a safe distance.