Hooves are both hands and feet for our little ponies. So are they hard or soft? The show has many instances of hoof prints being left, and hard "clod" sounds when ponies walk orn hard surfaces, implying a hard structure. Hooves! But also, in "Magic Duel" Rarity poked her hoof and it was red and sore. They also seem to be able to hold things in their hooves. So what gives? How do they hold things? Do they have soft hooves or hard? This line is always drawn when showing hooves, so key fact: Hooves aren't flat! The answer to both is simply, that they have both! Air Tank Let me introduce something called "Granular Jamming." The idea is that if you have an elastic container (such as a bladder or a balloon) of a granular material (like ground coffee bean) then by "jamming" the material together, it becomes rock hard, but normally, it's soft like a marshmallow. The result is that if technology used in robotics. it's squeezed up against something, it will grip it by jamming it in, and to let go, you simply push on the bladder from the other side When jammed into an object, the granules "jam" around it. Granular Jamming is a new muscle Soft, spongy tissue Also the "pad" of the foot "Yes, ponies have feet It works as a suction cup and to jam the object in place Hard, nail-like hoof wall A blow from behind, like a puff of air from an air tank will detach or launch the object (like pushing in the back of a suction cup) I propose that ponies, in addition to a hard hoof wall, have inside it a bladder akin to a balloon filled with these granules (a spongy soft pad of tissue would work the same way) Behind it is a muscle that can push on the back to detach whatever the pony's grabbed, much like pushing in the back of a suction cup. Twilight vector by StarshineCelestalis.deviantart.com Hoof study by Eagle1Division.deviantart.com

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Hooves are both hands and feet for our little ponies. So are they hard or soft? The show has many instances of hoof prints being left, and hard "clod" sounds when ponies walk orn hard surfaces, implying a hard structure. Hooves! But also, in "Magic Duel" Rarity poked her hoof and it was red and sore. They also seem to be able to hold things in their hooves. So what gives? How do they hold things? Do they have soft hooves or hard? This line is always drawn when showing hooves, so key fact: Hooves aren't flat! The answer to both is simply, that they have both! Air Tank Let me introduce something called "Granular Jamming." The idea is that if you have an elastic container (such as a bladder or a balloon) of a granular material (like ground coffee bean) then by "jamming" the material together, it becomes rock hard, but normally, it's soft like a marshmallow. The result is that if technology used in robotics. it's squeezed up against something, it will grip it by jamming it in, and to let go, you simply push on the bladder from the other side When jammed into an object, the granules "jam" around it. Granular Jamming is a new muscle Soft, spongy tissue Also the "pad" of the foot "Yes, ponies have feet It works as a suction cup and to jam the object in place Hard, nail-like hoof wall A blow from behind, like a puff of air from an air tank will detach or launch the object (like pushing in the back of a suction cup) I propose that ponies, in addition to a hard hoof wall, have inside it a bladder akin to a balloon filled with these granules (a spongy soft pad of tissue would work the same way) Behind it is a muscle that can push on the back to detach whatever the pony's grabbed, much like pushing in the back of a suction cup. Twilight vector by StarshineCelestalis.deviantart.com Hoof study by Eagle1Division.deviantart.com

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Overanalyzing a kid's show? The internet would be proud!

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Me at 0:30

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