What if only Bronies deemed worthy of going to Equestria were given instructions on how to open a portal in their dreams by Celestia?

Yeah, Lyra’s chapter was incredible. Seeing what happens to people from the perspective of a former human was absolutely horrible, though.
 
All sentient races have the capacity for great evil. Ponies are no different.

@ThatGuyImpious  
I remember that one.  
Honestly, it’s quite a bit disturbing, but I did like Lyra’s chapter and how even with her memories back she still enjoys life.

The entire place would become one big open-pit mine the second humans learn that you can pull fist-sized, flawless, pre-cut gemstones out of the dirt.

Well I’d say we’d be pretty screwed trying to fight against a race of creatures from some plane of existence wherein logical physics don’t apply.  
Worst case scenario we become pets.  
Best case, diplomacy.

There’s actually a horrifying and incredible HiE fic ~~one of the only ones that isn’t terrible ~~ called Heat and Desire, where the evil, sadistic aliens that abduct humans are actually members of an Equestrian cult enamored with our natural beauty.
 
They abduct us from our homes and in broad daylight and take us through a one-way portal to their world… and promptly sell us into horrific sexual slavery. The powerful ambient magic then proceeds to mutate and mutilate us, eventually turning us into ponies. However, we have no memories of our past lives, so it’s no different than death.
 
It’s both amazing and incredibly terrifying.

We’d be a lot better too if all we needed was a long living ruler and banished nearly all threats to a forest.  
Who’s not to say Equestrians aren’t assholes either? They have xenophobia, they’re very panic-prone, a lot are uptight, etc.  
They and us are both sapient creatures. They’re no better or worse than us.

Heheh, always the joker GCoL!

fear panic then military presence alien study pony revolt then celesta drops the sun on are ass

I don’t know why people all assume we’d just capture and experiment on a perfectly sentient species.
 
We’ve evolved over the past few millenia folks, we’ve got laws. We uphold them. We are logical, realistic people.

It’s not pessimism, it’s realistic. Individuals among our species are brilliant, empathetic people, but as a whole we are a destructive, invasive, deeply flawed race. Equestria is better off untainted by humanity.

OMGWTFBBQ

So cynical and pessimistic a lot of you are.

Captain, that’s about every terrible human in equestria fic just about ever.
 
Humans ruin everything. We’re a destructive, invasive species.
 
Fortunately, Equestria and Equiis/whatever the planet is named is a fucking death world. Us weak, fleshy creatures wouldn’t last long.

Everyone would immediately be flocking to explore and document it. The Internet would be overwhelmed with the amount of people uploading pictures, videos, and accounts of it. People would be wondering just how the heck a universe from a cartoon suddenly popped into existence, and would run rampant with theories. Who created it? Aliens? Gods? Some top-secret agency that’s managed to perfect holographic technology? An insane PR stunt by Hasbro?
 
As for the inhabitants of Equestria, they would be screwed. Government officials would storm the place, capturing as many creatures as they could to study and experiment on. There would be resistance from the Equestrians of course, which would lead to an all-out war between the ponies, griffons, and dragons, and the major armies of Earth. Any bronies attempting to enjoy the sudden manifestation of their fantasy land would probably find themselves killed in the battles. Meanwhile, people back on Earth would be LOLing and WTFing at the chaos through live video streams.
 
In short, it would be FREAKING. AWESOME. Dang, we need someone to write a story about this.

My guess is diplomatic relations opening with Equestria, an attempted corporate invasion to exploit it for both natural resources and to turn it into a tourist trap, Bronies unite with Equestria and fight back and the conflict ends with the creation of New Equestria, which takes up a good-sized chunk of the Midwest and Canada.

But after enough people are convinced that they are what they are, with their magic and our science we could actually get things done  
Oh and religious arguments thousands of religious/moral arguments for a while

Immediately ruin everything.

Figure out the currency exchange rate to bits so I could buy some apples!

It would depend on the country, and the military would have it on a 24 hour lockdown with a twelve mile restricted zone.

Foalnap the ponies for science possibly…

A freakout at first I’m sure.
 
Then years later we would have half human half pony hybrids walking around and it would be all Lyra’s fault.

Wiat WHAT?!  
WHO HIT THE PORTAL OVERRIDE BUTTON?  
(five Pinkie clones raise their hoofs)

I’d be like, “Hey, welcome to Earth. Please take me with you!”