But our planes can do this blows her out of the sky with a homing missile

Well, I think so, until in the far future we may grow wings.

“Haha pathetic humans can’t even fly on their own lame”
 
After she gets shot down

This reminds me of a quote from Superman II: “Look! They need machines to fly!”

@Eeveeinheat  
A raging… Physics…  

 
Okay.
 
Anyways, just flew on airplanes quite a bit today, and this picture came to mind. I’m sad we need airplanes to fly. I wish I could fly so bad… :<

@Cirrus Light  
The LHC gives me a raging physics boner. Has to be my favorite of all scientific tools.

@Background Pony #3774  
Yay, you mentioned my career goal :p
 
The fastest any human has ever gone was the Apollo astronauts on re-entry, returning from the Moon. Velocity relative to Earth’s surface:
 
39,896 km/h, 24,790 mph, or 11.08 km/s, 6.89 miles/second. That’s roughly mach 53
 
The New Horizons probe, while unmanned, escaped from Earth’s influence with a speed relative to Earth’s center of:
 
58,536 km/h, 36,373 mph, 16.26 km/s, 10.10 miles/second. ~mach 78
 
Never mind the godly/ungodly destructive power that WMD’s have awarded us. Yes, there’s the Tsar Bomb that can give you 3rd degree burns from 60 miles away when only working at half yield, and enough nuclear arsenalle to destroy every city on Earth 12 times over in less than an hour, but there’s also biological WMD’s.
 
In terms of tech accomplishment, I like to focus on the more constructive things, though:
 
Robonaut:  

 
Remote Surgery:  

 

 

 
New Horizons  

 
That station’s larger than a football field:  

 

 
Large Hadron Collider:  

 
Models of data coming from it: (Or maybe this is actual data? Not sure. It’s quantum/particle physics stuff, though)  

 
String Theory:  

 
ITER, an experimental fusion reactor:  

 
Don’t even get me started on rockets, plasma engines, space habitats… Yeah.
 

So Dash, listen, based on what you’ve said, it sounds like in all of recorded equine history, no Pegasus had performed a Sonic Rainboom. That’s roughly thousands of years.
 
We pathetic humans as you so call us went from barely soaring a shack-built powered glider called ‘Bi-Planes’ to shattering the sound barrier in under 50 years.
 
Then about 20 years later, we made the first super sonic commercial passenger jet way beyond it’s time it was called ‘Concord’ that could break the sound barrier not one but twice.
 
Then 20 years after that, we broke the sound barrier on land, just because we could.
 
Keep on laughing. We’ll figure out FTL travel one day, just for laughs.

@Cirrus Light  
Well there’s lots of politics involved in that. NORAD can’t decide who to attack without presidential and or congressional approval. Plus we would be more inclined to act if the US was under a direct large scale attack by an unknown species in which the US would not have time to be concerned about international criticism for using nuclear weapons against a threat that could potentially jeopardize our nation. But that might be overthinking it.

@Background Pony #8FA8  
It’s worth noting that NORAD won’t even shoot dictators worse than Hitler unless there’s a conflict.

@Background Pony #8FA8  
Equestria is welcome at the UN

@Cirrus Light I probably wouldn’t shoot a cute pony. but NORAD would. And you are correct in stating that this could spiral into comment craziness so… Let America and ponies be friends?

@Mike  
I mean, granted, she’d be enslaving you and stuff in that crazy hypothetical I mentioned, not making a cute face, but still :p
 
This topic could rapidly spiral into philosophy and stuff rather off-topic…

@Cirrus Light  
Oh, hell no.

@Mike  
I was just thinking that I’d probably rather take subjugation and slavery to ponies than fight them to the death. They’re just too cute.
 
There’s even precedent for that. I have two cats.
 
I mean, just look at that profile picture you got there. Could you really shoot that?

@Cirrus Light  
Fair enough.

@windchaser  
@Animegx43  
@Background Pony #8FA8  
@Mike
 
Whoever the author wants to win will win.
 
If we wanted to try to be realistic based off of consistency with the rules of reality and the fictional world, we’d need to know a lot more about how shields, teleportation, mind and dream magic and a host of other things work. Far too many confounding variables to make any real “realistic” claim as to who would win. We don’t even know if Equestria has a population of 100,000 or 1,000,000,000.
 
Making claims as to who’d realistically win a war in the real world where the technology and powers involved are largely understood is hard enough. Rag tag rebels beat off the leading world power more than once. But also fairly often they just get squashed. So lots of luck is involved, too.
 
No matter what, though, war is terrible and lots of good ponies and humans would probably die, soooooooooo yeah. When it comes to ponies, make love not war Xp

@Background Pony #8FA8  
I think you underestimate the power of a fictional world.

@Animegx43  
The United States has over 2,000 nuclear warheads ready for launch and an additional 3’000 nukes in storage. More than enough to destroy shields and defeat teleportation.

@windchaser  
Come back to the when you can teleport those missiles directly to their door steps, or summon giant magical barriers to block other missiles.

We humans can destroy you look at Russia they could launch 3 missiles each with 10 mirv nuclear war heads and destroy all of equestria before you even react

Careful Dash, that F-16 bites much harder than you do.

@Background Human  
Sidewinders can acquire lock on prop engines, too, so it’s not just jet engines. But even prop engines get extremely hot by everyday standards while they’re in operation. They’re pretty much car engines - at least old piston prop engines are. So yeah, touching a pegasus while she’s flying = popping the hood and touching a running car engine? I think not… Especially given that Pinkie rode Twilight to ponyville in “Amending Fences.”

Pathetic ponies can even pick things up with thumbs! How’s that sound, Dash?