Mass Ponification! (RAR!)

[Zor]

One Day you wake up and get to your feet. Which you find out to your suprise have doubled in number. You then run over and look into the mirror and find out that you have transformed into something like THIS...



Or if you are male, something like this...



Then after some panicing you go to the TV and find out that aproximately half the worlds population has been effected by this, roughly 25% have become Pegasii and 25% Unicorns while the rest are earth ponies. No one, not even Lauren Faust or the guys at Hasbro have any idea what the hell just happend?

What happens?

Zor

[KlavoHunter]

Friendship!!!

[Bright]

Wellllll. On my own part, I'd hope I was a unicorn. If not, I'd start practicing my dental dexterity to learn to live without fingers or opposable thumbs. My days arguing with people on the Internet would probably be over, I fear.

Societal effects would be harder to predict, at least beyond general chaos for a while. There would probably be some discrimination, but half the world seems like too many people to put in concentration camps or something drastic like that.

[Starglider]

Societal effects would be harder to predict, at least beyond general chaos for a while.

Everyone has to chose between turning furry or total abstinence.

[Zixinus]

Panic.

Why? Because of the fact that I now live in a world designed for bipedal humans while I myself am a quadraped being without any obvious means to use human tools or even use tools. Plus living in a flat has become slightly more painful, due to the elevators being sized for humans (right now, you might get ONE pony inside, tops) and the stairs being too.

I mean, how am I supposed to use a keyboard with hooves? How?

[Bright]

Well, unicorn ponies all have telekinetic magic that can be used for fairly exact mechanical work, like sewing and such.

[Starglider]

I mean, how am I supposed to use a keyboard with hooves? How?

Pinkie Pie managed to build and operate a pedal-powered helicopter, plus lots of other crazy things. Evidently ponies have hoof touch-telekinesis, and the earth ponies at least have ridiculous power-to-weight ratio.

[Forgothrax]

Not to mention that gifted pegasi can pull 1670 g's. I have a sneaking suspicion that commuting just got easier for quite a few of the population.

As for societal effects... immense. Impossible to really calculate. Among other things we'd probably see a massive breakdown in society because ponies simply can't operate a lot of the machinery humanity requires to function. Transportation breaks down immediately because you can't really fit a pony into the cab of a semi-truck, and the same probably goes for aircraft and trains as well as personal vehicles, so there goes logistics. Same thing with farming; farm equipment is suddenly unusable or very difficult to use. Can you say "mass starvation"? And that's just the tip of the iceberg... Yes, there will be a lot of humans left over, but all things being equal a lot of them will come from professions in which one has to be bipedal and able to manipulate objects with hands in order to function.

In short, we're screwed.

[JPaganel]

First, I will be majorly relieved that my external doors have lever handles rather than round knobs.

There will probably be a mass exodus South, once people figure out that shelter is difficult to get in and out of and that electrical, gas and oil production are stopping and there is no more easily available heating.

[Bright]

Transportation breaks down immediately because you can't really fit a pony into the cab of a semi-truck, and the same probably goes for aircraft and trains as well as personal vehicles, so there goes logistics.

I'm not so sure My Little Ponies are to scale with actual ponies. I kind of get the impression they're a little smaller than humans. That's assuming the furniture we see is identical in size to actual furniture.

Same thing with farming; farm equipment is suddenly unusable or very difficult to use. Can you say "mass starvation"?

I don't think we see ponies doing it in the show, but it might be possible to eat grass.

There will probably be a mass exodus South, once people figure out that shelter is difficult to get in and out of and that electrical, gas and oil production are stopping and there is no more easily available heating.

Wait a minute!

TC, do the ponified people get weather manipulation abilities? Can pegasi blow away bad weather?

[open_sketchbook]

I'd imagine so. Lauren Faust also said that Earth Ponies have an easy time growing stuff, magically enhancing the land by living there. We might be able to ward off starvation easier than we think.

International communication will break down for a while until we make giant sized keyboards and phone dials though. At least we'll have a hard time going to war with one another until somebody figures out what's what, seeing as we can't really operate guns, tanks and jets with hooves.

Do national leaders become Alicorn?

[Zaune]

Comfort myself with the knowledge that I am now quite literally hung like a stallion.

Oh, come on, you were all thinking it.

[Batman]

I simply wait until the JLA/JSA/GLC/the Titans/the Phantom Stranger if all else fails fix this mess. It's not like that'd be the first time something like that happened to me.

[Crossroads Inc.]

Only on SD.net could you have a serious scientific discussion about the ramifications of world wide Ponification.

Also a few things, I prey to the almighty FSM that leaders do not become Alicorns, I for one can not think of a single world leader I would want to have with Luna or Celstia's Powers...
Second Relations ships world wide will break down.. I don't know about you but I can handle 'furry' love, Furries are at least anthropomorphic... That I could deal with, but going down on all fours... Permanently that would take a whole new stance on getting it on...
Third, the amount of civilization collapsing will be dictated by how fast the Unicorn and Pegasus ponies lear to use thier powers... Really All unicorn ponies need to be "drafted" into service for skilled labor.. All the jobs that require delicate precision with hands and such will almost by default need to be done by Unicorn Ponies. The amount of time the Pegasi Ponies learn to use their powers.. Well given the amount of the population we may be looking at months fo freak weather disturbances before things settle down.. ocne they do, one would HOPE we can finally bring raid where it is needed, and prevent it from where it is not.

Thirdly, and most important.. Do we automatically get Cutimarks? or do we have to earn them???

[Forgothrax]

Transportation breaks down immediately because you can't really fit a pony into the cab of a semi-truck, and the same probably goes for aircraft and trains as well as personal vehicles, so there goes logistics.

I'm not so sure My Little Ponies are to scale with actual ponies. I kind of get the impression they're a little smaller than humans. That's assuming the furniture we see is identical in size to actual furniture.

Even if they're not to scale (I seem to remember reading some calcs that indicated ponies are about 4 feet tall, +/- 6 inches), they're still the wrong body shape to fit into a lot of the tight spaces we have in our machinery. For one, they can't sit on a chair with a back and use a wheel and pedals, like in a car.

Same thing with farming; farm equipment is suddenly unusable or very difficult to use. Can you say "mass starvation"?

I don't think we see ponies doing it in the show, but it might be possible to eat grass.

That might work out in the country. Not so well in the city, which is where most of the food problems will occur.

OK, some basic math...

There are approximately 6.78 billion people on Earth. Of them, 50% are ponified, so there are now 3.39 billion ponies worldwide. Of those 3.9 billion, 1.695 million are now earth ponies, 847.5 million are now pegasi, and 847.5 million are unicorns. A breakdown:

-Pegasi can fly (some at speeds exceeding sound) and can control the weather. Interestingly enough, they can hover and stuff attached to them (such as wagons) hovers with them so long as they're hitched up (ref: Feeling Pinkie Keen). Since there is now 1 pegasi per 8 Terrans, I don't think we're going to have a shortage of ponies controlling Earth's weather, though we might see some difference in weather control since Earth's weather is "wild" compared to Equestria's. Equestrian weather only occurs when pegasi cause it.

-Unicorns can do magic. Equestrian magic seems to be primarily transfiguration and telekinesis, with some teleportation thrown in. Rarity's gem-finding spell alone, though, will do wonders for locating new bodies of minerals, and who knows what other spells are going to be available for unicorns. You can better believe that the moment someone figures out how to replicate teleportation on a grand scale that there's going to be a massive shakeup in the transportation industry.

-The earth ponies are going to be most problematic. They don't have any overt magical abilities, unless you count Pinkie's conscious ability to summon cartoon physics magical, and they're stuck in a world built for bipeds.

[Vendetta]

-Pegasi can fly (some at speeds exceeding sound) and can control the weather.

Actually, quite a lot faster than that. The angle of the mach cone generated just before a sonic rainboom indicates that Rainbow Dash can approach Mach 5.5, and would therefore have pulled a 17,000+ G turn.

[Raxmei]

You might not be able to fit a pony into the cab of a semi truck but you can hitch a pony to said truck and tow it, tractor and all. See also "Over A Barrel" in which a team of ponies pulls a train complete with engine. With a little modification commuters should be able to arrange to pull their cars to work. Asking workers to go to their jobs without their cars is of course absurd whether they're ponies or not.

[Ryan Thunder]

EDIT: Excuse me, I mistakenly thought this was testing.

[FaxModem1]

With half the world's population turned into ponies, would there possibly be a religious movement to rid the Earth of the abominations?

[Lord of the Abyss]

With half the world's population turned into ponies, would there possibly be a religious movement to rid the Earth of the abominations?

Quite likely, but as Bright said above with such a large number of ponies it doesn't seem likely anything like that would get far. Virtually everyone would have friends and family that were ponified after all. And every religious group on Earth would be half pony. It also helps that ponies are cute; it would be a lot easier to convince people that the changed were abominations if they had turned into Lovecraftian slug/spider things.

[Zixinus]

Questions:
-Do all ponified people become automatically herbivores?

-How will this influence our biology? How long will people live?

With half the world's population turned into ponies, would there possibly be a religious movement to rid the Earth of the abominations?

It will be quite amusing to see how this is supposed to be part of God's plan and whatnot.

[Bright]

Even if they're not to scale (I seem to remember reading some calcs that indicated ponies are about 4 feet tall, +/- 6 inches), they're still the wrong body shape to fit into a lot of the tight spaces we have in our machinery. For one, they can't sit on a chair with a back and use a wheel and pedals, like in a car.

No, no, their spines are pretty bendy:



Actually, based on this picture, I think ponies couldn't drive cars mostly because they couldn't reach the pedals.

Questions: -How will this influence our biology? How long will people live?

Good question. IIRC, there's been endless debating about how old the main characters of FIM are, whether they age in human years or not, and how long their life spans would be.

[KhorneFlakes]

Go on murderous rampage in retaliation for being forcibly turned into a pony. Draft horses are cooler.
Proceed to kill self afterwards, for kicks.

[Ritterin Sophia]

I mean, how am I supposed to use a keyboard with hooves? How?

Go on murderous rampage in retaliation for being forcibly turned into a pony. Draft horses are cooler.
Proceed to kill self afterwards, for kicks.

What can I say, the mares love a draft horse.

[LadyTevar]

I get WINGS?!?! WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

And I don't have to go back to work signing Death certificates anymore!!! Maybe it will even fix Nit's liver! Nit wants to be a Unicorn, btw. Telekinesis, Teleportation, and a SPEAR on front of his head!