WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:16.400 Its amazing the damage that joy can deal. 00:00:16.400 --> 00:00:17.400 The pleasure of present hides scars unhealed. 00:00:17.400 --> 00:00:20.340 The crystal empire serves as a very interesting case of the massive impacts of equestrian 00:00:20.340 --> 00:00:21.530 weather manipulation. 00:00:21.530 --> 00:00:26.390 The Crystal heart, an artifact powered by the joy of the crystal ponies manages to hold 00:00:26.390 --> 00:00:27.390 back the cold. 00:00:27.390 --> 00:00:32.040 Ensuring the survival of a civilization, but not without consequence. 00:00:32.040 --> 00:00:35.980 The crystal heart serves as a safe guard for the hundreds of Chrystal ponies that give 00:00:35.980 --> 00:00:40.530 it power, but the straights it places on the environment could be dour. 00:00:40.530 --> 00:00:44.949 But To truly understand the power the Crystal hearts got, we must first know how weather 00:00:44.949 --> 00:00:48.190 acts where its not. 00:00:48.190 --> 00:00:52.280 The princesses themselves say that "Weather this far north has a will of its own.". 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:56.380 So I believe the use of meteorology, or weather science is condoned. 00:00:56.380 --> 00:01:01.799 No weather ponies are ready or able to tip the scales, so A more scientific approach 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:03.830 should be less prone to fail. 00:01:03.830 --> 00:01:09.320 A main component of meteorology is the study, of air, and how it acts and moves within the 00:01:09.320 --> 00:01:10.690 atmosphere. 00:01:10.690 --> 00:01:16.150 While all air may seem similar its definitely not, there are two main types and differences 00:01:16.150 --> 00:01:17.960 are stark. 00:01:17.960 --> 00:01:23.240 Types of air differ in 3 mains ways, Their temperature, density, and the amount of moisture 00:01:23.240 --> 00:01:24.920 contained. 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:27.540 Though counter-intuitive air is not dry. 00:01:27.540 --> 00:01:31.450 For a percentage of it is water invisible to our eyes. 00:01:31.450 --> 00:01:36.730 Water Vapor, water in its gas phase, takes up space left by air and from it clouds can 00:01:36.730 --> 00:01:37.890 be made. 00:01:37.890 --> 00:01:43.230 Warm air is hot and has the tendency to rise, Its not very dense and holds amounts of moisture 00:01:43.230 --> 00:01:45.210 that surprise. 00:01:45.210 --> 00:01:47.140 Cold air is cool and usually falls. 00:01:47.140 --> 00:01:50.860 As a result its far denser and holds little moisture at all. 00:01:50.860 --> 00:01:56.870 These two types of air tend to keep to themselves, forming large groups called masses, not meeting 00:01:56.870 --> 00:01:58.670 if it can be helped. 00:01:58.670 --> 00:02:02.990 But regardless of their preferences these two masses do meet, forming borders, called 00:02:02.990 --> 00:02:05.630 fronts wherever they greet. 00:02:05.630 --> 00:02:08.759 These fronts vary in shape,size, and strength. 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:12.629 They can also span entire countries with their considerable length. 00:02:12.629 --> 00:02:18.012 Within them various weather patterns arise, but the intensity of these upon the temperature 00:02:18.012 --> 00:02:20.120 difference relies. 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:24.379 The hotter the warm air, and the cooler the cold, the stronger the front and weather more 00:02:24.379 --> 00:02:25.819 bold. 00:02:25.819 --> 00:02:31.700 Of these fronts there are 4 main types, named after the mass that pushes the air out of 00:02:31.700 --> 00:02:32.700 sight. 00:02:32.700 --> 00:02:34.659 Warm fronts are formed where warm air runs into cold. 00:02:34.659 --> 00:02:39.040 They make weather that is relatively mild, but the span of these fronts mean it lasts 00:02:39.040 --> 00:02:40.730 a for a while. 00:02:40.730 --> 00:02:45.959 Light showers and storms are what to expect, but despite their width, not much power they 00:02:45.959 --> 00:02:46.959 project. 00:02:46.959 --> 00:02:50.909 Cold fronts are formed where cold air rams the warm, and since cold air falls. 00:02:50.909 --> 00:02:54.209 it crashes into warm air as a steep wall. 00:02:54.209 --> 00:02:55.749 Creating short but violent storms. 00:02:55.749 --> 00:02:59.090 Thunder, lightning, and heavy rain are the norm. 00:02:59.090 --> 00:03:03.629 Thankfully these last for only a short time, but can be quite dangerous for those caught 00:03:03.629 --> 00:03:05.769 in their grind. 00:03:05.769 --> 00:03:08.989 On Stationary fronts, masses seem to abide. 00:03:08.989 --> 00:03:11.359 Warm and Cold air seem to stand side by side. 00:03:11.359 --> 00:03:16.189 When cold air and warm push each-other with equal force, a stationary front forms as a 00:03:16.189 --> 00:03:17.840 matter of course. 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:22.579 Cloudy weather forms and some rain and snow, but once the balance shifts another front 00:03:22.579 --> 00:03:25.019 starts to go. 00:03:25.019 --> 00:03:28.989 Precipitation, water falling from the sky, is common along these fronts. 00:03:28.989 --> 00:03:31.469 When moisture from warm air, the cold air shunts. 00:03:31.469 --> 00:03:36.099 The cold air can't hold the vapor so it goes, condensing into water that is ejected, and 00:03:36.099 --> 00:03:37.099 from the air and flows. 00:03:37.099 --> 00:03:42.230 It moves though air in the form of clouds, and can take various forms along its way to 00:03:42.230 --> 00:03:43.230 the ground. 00:03:43.230 --> 00:03:48.019 If the air is near freezing it can fall as hail sleet or snow, but if the air is too 00:03:48.019 --> 00:03:50.469 warm, only rain is sowed. 00:03:50.469 --> 00:03:54.340 With or without pegasi this cycle appears to be maintained, which is why i believe it 00:03:54.340 --> 00:03:56.340 should be explained. 00:03:56.340 --> 00:04:02.029 In the Chrystal empire the weather is untamed, no weather pony could stop its foul reign. 00:04:02.029 --> 00:04:06.639 Even the princesses, strong as they are, failed their efforts to properly bar. 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:10.879 And so the Crystal Empire would have been consumed by ice, if not for the repair of 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:12.129 a certain device. 00:04:12.129 --> 00:04:16.220 The Crystal heart by itself can hold back the cold, but precisely how it works is something 00:04:16.220 --> 00:04:17.829 I haven't been told. 00:04:17.829 --> 00:04:23.030 I only know its powered by crystal pony joy, but I must speculate on how that power is 00:04:23.030 --> 00:04:24.030 employed. 00:04:24.030 --> 00:04:29.270 I believe the crystal heart use's its power to maintain a warm air mass, one robust enough 00:04:29.270 --> 00:04:32.400 so that no cold front may pass. 00:04:32.400 --> 00:04:37.389 With this mass the heart holds a stationary front, one that no cold air can conceivably 00:04:37.389 --> 00:04:38.409 stunt. 00:04:38.409 --> 00:04:43.380 It generates and holds a small pocket of heat, a place where crystal ponies can safely retreat. 00:04:43.380 --> 00:04:50.260 At least so long as the heart is intact, but a cry from an alicorn babe can change that. 00:04:50.260 --> 00:04:54.039 The moment the heart broke the stationary front collapsed, causing cold air to close 00:04:54.039 --> 00:04:55.039 in fast. 00:04:55.039 --> 00:04:59.120 But the type of front formed when the crystal heart broke, is likely a type about which 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:01.560 i haven't spoke. 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:06.680 Occluded fronts form when warm air is pushed high, by two colder masses lower in the sky. 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:10.590 This usually a occurs when one front runs into another's rear, and the weather produced 00:05:10.590 --> 00:05:11.889 around these fronts can be severe. 00:05:11.889 --> 00:05:13.979 When cold, warm, and cool air meet, an occluded front forms and its a special treat. 00:05:13.979 --> 00:05:15.240 Cold air pushing into the cool air low on the ground, with warm air above hovering above 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:16.240 and around. 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:17.240 Creating unpredictable weather patterns and storms, that can deviate extremely far from 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:18.240 the norm. 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:19.830 Heavy rain, wind, and thunderstorms are common to see, but these are far from the worst possibility. 00:05:19.830 --> 00:05:24.610 Occluded fronts have been known to make, cold core funnel clouds from which tornadoes take. 00:05:24.610 --> 00:05:29.810 Once the Crystal heart stopped bringing the heat, the warm air would rise quickly leaving 00:05:29.810 --> 00:05:31.669 cooler air in its seat. 00:05:31.669 --> 00:05:35.710 Meanwhile cold air pushes in from the outside, and the weather formed from these masses should 00:05:35.710 --> 00:05:36.710 be despised. 00:05:36.710 --> 00:05:41.710 Since the warm air has stayed so for years on end, and the cold air has stayed frigid 00:05:41.710 --> 00:05:43.319 since the empire re-began. 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:47.490 I believe the occluded front was of the appropriate strength, to form ice-nados that through the 00:05:47.490 --> 00:05:48.599 city could snake. 00:05:48.599 --> 00:05:51.439 // If not for the princesses buying time, In 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:55.669 these twisters the townsfolk could have been en-twined. 00:05:55.669 --> 00:05:59.389 Of course while the princesses's resistance was fair, they couldn't stop the drying of 00:05:59.389 --> 00:06:00.389 the air. 00:06:00.389 --> 00:06:05.289 At occluded fronts the air significantly drys, and combined with low temperatures ice, snow, 00:06:05.289 --> 00:06:07.350 and hail forms before our eyes. 00:06:07.350 --> 00:06:11.970 In the case of the Crystal empire , there was so much ice and snowfall, that the townsfolk 00:06:11.970 --> 00:06:15.509 were cut-off with no escape at all. 00:06:15.509 --> 00:06:18.879 Beyond repairing the Crystal heart the ponies only hope, was hunkering down in the palace 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:19.879 until the storm broke. 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:24.509 I'd choose the palace because its sufficiently high, to ensure the crowd won't get trapped 00:06:24.509 --> 00:06:27.389 as the snow piles climb to the sky. 00:06:27.389 --> 00:06:31.770 Fortunately the Crystal heart was repaired, and the empires citizen's by the end had little 00:06:31.770 --> 00:06:33.129 need to be scared. 00:06:33.129 --> 00:06:35.780 But the survival of the empire is balanced on a knife. 00:06:35.780 --> 00:06:38.840 Should the heart stay broken its end is in sight. 00:06:38.840 --> 00:06:42.830 Watching the crystal ponies live their lives, reminds me of all creatures who live below 00:06:42.830 --> 00:06:43.830 the waterline. 00:06:43.830 --> 00:06:47.800 Like a levy to the ocean, the Crystal heart holds back the cold. 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:51.979 I pray that it stays protected so that the empire may grow old. 00:06:51.979 --> 00:06:54.940 But to you this information is likely old hat. 00:06:54.940 --> 00:06:57.509 Aside from the meteorology, these conclusions have sat. 00:06:57.509 --> 00:07:01.971 Laid out for all to see for years, but there is more about the crystal heart to which our 00:07:01.971 --> 00:07:03.370 thoughts can be steered. 00:07:03.370 --> 00:07:06.909 First on other ways such a powerful artifact can be applied. 00:07:06.909 --> 00:07:09.169 Its vast utility cannot be denied. 00:07:09.169 --> 00:07:12.960 An artifact such as the Crystal heart, give ponies the ability to select their weather 00:07:12.960 --> 00:07:14.770 a la carte. 00:07:14.770 --> 00:07:17.300 Pegasi have control of the moisture in the air. 00:07:17.300 --> 00:07:21.460 They can manipulate clouds and shift the rains to here and there, 00:07:21.460 --> 00:07:24.660 but in order to do this great resources are required. 00:07:24.660 --> 00:07:28.760 Complex Machinery, coordination, and large amounts wing power must be sired. 00:07:28.760 --> 00:07:35.430 They may move the clouds that bring the snow, but winter is coming regardless how slow. 00:07:35.430 --> 00:07:39.160 Temperature appears to be beyond a pegasi's pail, they can move the waters, but when it 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:40.740 comes to heating air, fail. 00:07:40.740 --> 00:07:45.419 Only with coordination with the celestial powers, can the temperature be regulated and 00:07:45.419 --> 00:07:48.750 the seasons flour The Crystal heart by comparison seems simple 00:07:48.750 --> 00:07:49.750 to use. 00:07:49.750 --> 00:07:51.990 To work, joy need only be infused. 00:07:51.990 --> 00:07:57.080 And while pegasi control moisture in the air, and the princesses the movement of celestial 00:07:57.080 --> 00:07:58.080 spheres. 00:07:58.080 --> 00:08:01.860 the crystal heart directly controls the temp, and with it the creation of no weather pattern 00:08:01.860 --> 00:08:02.860 is exempt 00:08:02.860 --> 00:08:07.419 The ability to control the temperature and moisture of the air mass, give Ponies near 00:08:07.419 --> 00:08:12.400 complete control of the weather and with it no foe could pass. 00:08:12.400 --> 00:08:16.889 Generals and Strategists have dreamed and have actually tried to influence the heavens 00:08:16.889 --> 00:08:19.550 along with the earth upon which they fight. 00:08:19.550 --> 00:08:23.029 Most just took advantage of weather patterns that exist, and there are plenty of examples 00:08:23.029 --> 00:08:24.669 of this. 00:08:24.669 --> 00:08:29.310 Cloaking an army in the cover of a storm, waiting for a gale to create a natural ford, 00:08:29.310 --> 00:08:33.310 Carefully deploying sailing ships upwind, and allowing typhoons to destroy enemy fleets 00:08:33.310 --> 00:08:35.450 out of season. 00:08:35.450 --> 00:08:40.110 Generals have literally prayed to ensure the weather would be with them on their campaigns, 00:08:40.110 --> 00:08:45.340 but ponies need not pray, for they would know, exactly what the weather would show. 00:08:45.340 --> 00:08:49.440 Using Pegasi and the Crystal heart, ponies could precisely control the weather they impart. 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:54.620 In the case of the Crystal ponies up in the north the crystal heart alone would be a fitting 00:08:54.620 --> 00:08:55.620 retort. 00:08:55.620 --> 00:08:59.330 By regularly changing the hearts power and range a constant blizzard around the empire 00:08:59.330 --> 00:09:01.951 could be amplified and maintained. 00:09:01.951 --> 00:09:04.480 The enemy lines would be frigid and pelted with ice. 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:08.440 While Imperial troops could languish in weather that was nice. 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:11.700 Their foe's supply and communication lines would be cut or strained. 00:09:11.700 --> 00:09:15.410 The strong blizzard grounding any flyers or planes. 00:09:15.410 --> 00:09:19.750 Any soldiers fighting the empire would stay in a frozen hell, only broken by the occasional 00:09:19.750 --> 00:09:22.340 dry air spells. 00:09:22.340 --> 00:09:25.350 Of course these would likely be accompanied by attacks. 00:09:25.350 --> 00:09:29.660 Crystal pony troops would be fresh, but most foes would immediately crash. 00:09:29.660 --> 00:09:33.930 Fleeing back to the lands from which they came, bemoaning another war general winter 00:09:33.930 --> 00:09:35.570 has claimed. 00:09:35.570 --> 00:09:40.120 The only possible force that could sustain such an attack would easily have to be the 00:09:40.120 --> 00:09:42.661 yaks, Their bodies have a natural resistance to 00:09:42.661 --> 00:09:47.120 cold, live in the mountains, and still act extremely bold, 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:51.480 but even they have been seen overwhelmed by snow, and current projections suggest their 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:53.330 numbers are too low. 00:09:53.330 --> 00:09:58.430 Should any force decide to invade the empire, the Crystal ponies could ensure that it would 00:09:58.430 --> 00:09:59.430 backfire. 00:09:59.430 --> 00:10:02.220 So far most of this has been up and up for the pones, so long as their barrier stays 00:10:02.220 --> 00:10:07.870 up they could rarely be owned, but this like all things come at a cost, for 00:10:07.870 --> 00:10:12.750 the ponies gain is another's loss. 00:10:12.750 --> 00:10:17.760 For 1000 years the Crystal empire had been erased, No crystal pony could be seen or found 00:10:17.760 --> 00:10:19.240 in this space. 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:24.530 1000 years is a lot of time for something else to move in, tundra aside. 00:10:24.530 --> 00:10:29.280 What appears to be an empty desolate waste, to others could be a thriving settling place. 00:10:29.280 --> 00:10:34.390 Assuming no magical creatures had set up shop, there are other more mundane animals that 00:10:34.390 --> 00:10:37.920 could have lived on this plot. 00:10:37.920 --> 00:10:42.721 Reindeer, caribou, moose, bears, lemmings, foxes, wolves, owls, and hairs. 00:10:42.721 --> 00:10:47.560 And this assumes no other species had emerged, evolved specifically to the land on which 00:10:47.560 --> 00:10:49.890 the crystal empire returned. 00:10:49.890 --> 00:10:54.450 All abruptly pushed to the side, once the crystal empire re-appeared to equestrian eyes. 00:10:54.450 --> 00:11:00.210 To add further injury to injury on stationary fronts where cold air and warm constantly 00:11:00.210 --> 00:11:01.230 bunt. 00:11:01.230 --> 00:11:03.720 Regular snowfall and blizzards could be expected to form. 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:07.970 Harsh weather comes to places where cold and warm air are at war. 00:11:07.970 --> 00:11:12.550 Further accelerating the destruction of habitat, forcing nearby flora and fauna to fall further 00:11:12.550 --> 00:11:13.550 back. 00:11:13.550 --> 00:11:19.340 But these problems are only local in scale, There also may be regional and global implications 00:11:19.340 --> 00:11:20.340 entailed. 00:11:20.340 --> 00:11:24.590 A permanent mass of warm air sitting this far north would likely throw a wrench in the 00:11:24.590 --> 00:11:29.790 work of any climactic conditions found, before the crystal empire popped up out of the ground. 00:11:29.790 --> 00:11:35.410 During the 1000 years without the crystal heart, wind could flow easily through these 00:11:35.410 --> 00:11:36.410 parts. 00:11:36.410 --> 00:11:40.040 Aside from the buildings the terrain looks flat, winds and fronts of air could move through 00:11:40.040 --> 00:11:41.140 without a spat. 00:11:41.140 --> 00:11:46.190 Such a large obstruction blocking or instantly warming those winds, could cause immense changes 00:11:46.190 --> 00:11:47.720 to the weather within. 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:52.460 The possible changes in climate are above my pay-grade to find , and data i can't get 00:11:52.460 --> 00:11:53.460 would be need to be defined. 00:11:53.460 --> 00:11:57.810 But i would be remiss, if i skipped the opportunity to reflect on this. 00:11:57.810 --> 00:12:01.980 The effect created by such a large pocket of warm air, sounds similar to how the climate 00:12:01.980 --> 00:12:02.980 of large cities is impaired. 00:12:02.980 --> 00:12:08.990 The effect is formally known as the Urban Heat Isle, describes how urban areas are warmer 00:12:08.990 --> 00:12:10.390 than more rural domiciles. 00:12:10.390 --> 00:12:15.550 The cause is slightly different in this case, but i believe the effects are about the same 00:12:15.550 --> 00:12:16.820 for each place. 00:12:16.820 --> 00:12:23.060 For most cities its caused by the accumulation of heat, on surfaces like asphalt, metal , and 00:12:23.060 --> 00:12:24.060 concrete. 00:12:24.060 --> 00:12:28.560 The crystal empire has only the crystal heart to blame, but the effects largely remain the 00:12:28.560 --> 00:12:29.560 same. 00:12:29.560 --> 00:12:33.610 Urban heat isles create more storms and rainfall down wind, as the moisture in the warm air 00:12:33.610 --> 00:12:36.570 washes into colder regions. 00:12:36.570 --> 00:12:41.070 Should the heart let any moisture or warm air escape, down wind of the empire more storms 00:12:41.070 --> 00:12:42.830 would take. 00:12:42.830 --> 00:12:47.070 Unfortunately the increased rainfall, likely turned into snow, could probably hurt nearby 00:12:47.070 --> 00:12:48.100 nations we know. 00:12:48.100 --> 00:12:52.860 With this information would it be wrong to propose, that the snowfall that buried the 00:12:52.860 --> 00:12:55.670 Yaks was in part caused by the crystal pones. 00:12:55.670 --> 00:13:00.280 Of course other effects of the Urban heat isle don't apply, Crystal Ponies in the empire 00:13:00.280 --> 00:13:03.630 don't have the tech to pollute the water and sky. 00:13:03.630 --> 00:13:07.650 And some effects of the isle are positive still, it lengthens the growing season so 00:13:07.650 --> 00:13:09.930 more crops could be tilled. 00:13:09.930 --> 00:13:14.950 Of course this only helps the ponies inside, beyond the crystal hearts, barrier crops would 00:13:14.950 --> 00:13:16.520 still likely die. 00:13:16.520 --> 00:13:19.750 But take heart, actual heart not one made of stone. 00:13:19.750 --> 00:13:22.940 For i'm not here to denigrate the crystal ponies and their home. 00:13:22.940 --> 00:13:27.440 Though their ingenuity they manage to survive, in an environment too extreme for most ponies 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:29.670 to stay alive. 00:13:29.670 --> 00:13:33.440 Far from succumbing to pressures without, they manage to shine with their joy harnessed 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:34.750 to keep the cold out. 00:13:34.750 --> 00:13:38.960 Even if a few animals may have been displaced, I believe something greater may have been 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:41.230 put in their place. 00:13:41.230 --> 00:13:45.480 The climate effects require more years of study to define, and if they are true the 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:47.360 empire can respond in kind. 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:50.790 Weather ponies could be dispatched to help handle the threat, or the heart itself could 00:13:50.790 --> 00:13:55.230 be edited to protect, not just ponies, but yaks and wildlife as well. 00:13:55.230 --> 00:13:58.630 Changes in climate need not be death knells. 00:13:58.630 --> 00:14:00.490 Assuming any of these threats even exist. 00:14:00.490 --> 00:14:04.440 This is my speculation so none may persist. 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:45.040 Perhaps my paranoid mind has once again been caught, presenting another demented thought.