Talk:Princess Luna/@comment-98.92.217.120-20110629102406/@comment-211.31.36.28-20110711103219

I'd like to add a few cents and say that I don't think an everlasting darkness would have a large effect on the actual environmental state of ponyville. If you'll recall ponies happen to do EVERYTHING. From rearranging clouds to making storms or sunny skies, causing the leaves to fall, making the snow melt and waking animals up. They even refrence this when first speaking of Zecora's home where everything does what ponies do by itself, a thought which horrifies them. It doesn't make sense why they couldn't do these tasks by moonlight instead of sunlight.

The only large hole in this theory is I'm unsure how plants actually grow. If they go by earth standards then without sunshine the ville' would quickly run out of food due to the whole photosynthesis thing..or lack of. However it is also possible that ponies do in fact help in this process, what does AJ's family do exactly? Sell and tend an orchid of course but they may also by the ones 'feeding' the plants as such. Not implausible as, while AJ could not get to all the apples by herself, we can assume on a normal day she and her brother get along fine without others help.

Just a theory!