Explain this

The sun might bump into it. Wouldn't that be a fine mess?

>>30487903
Is there a need for the moon to exist at all?

>>30487871
It obscures the moon.
I believe.

>>30487910
Poetry, and gives lovers something to talk about when they get bored of talking about themselves.

>>30487910
Tides and shit man

also so it isn't pitch black at night

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>>30487911
>The moon obscures the moon

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>>30487910
>Is there a need for the moon to exist at all?
If the moon never existed, it probably meant that the Earth never would have came to be as it results from coming together in orbit around the surviving gravity source.

Also, for sister storage

>>30487971
>Nightmare Moon banishes Celestia to the Moon.
>Not to the sun.
Proof that the moon is only for sister storage.

>>30487871

why even bother raising and lowering the sun and moon manually? why not just cast a spell to automate that shit?

>>30487910
No.

>>30488552
Because the sisters suck as devs. I doubt they automate anything. Probably don't even have full test coverage.

>>30487871
because the sun has to come out you autistic
f u c c

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>>30487911
>>30489205
Pretty sure the sky is big enough for both

>>30487871
The sun generates the day and the night generates the night. Of course they can't be together at the same time, it would just be a shitty combination of the two.

>>30489272
>when the moon is up the sky is dark
>even with the sun up as well
you know, this has some serious lore potential that ive never considered before

>>30489272
Can you imagine the shit that would go down with day and night being together? Night shit happening 100 feet away from where day shit happens.

>>30488541
Well you certainly wouldn't want ponies to get in the practice of staring at the sun, they could go blind.

>>30487871
In Equestria, yeah. The moon is more than just a huge rock, it actually seems to emit "night". In the scenes where the sun and moon both are up the entire sky is split in half, day on one side, night on the other.

>>30487910
Tides, moonlight, and a conduit for speaking to the Paleblood.

>>30489325
Oh man, thank you for allowing me to have some nice headcanon, never thought about that.

>>30487871
Because the moon shines darkness you retard

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>>30489325
>>30489335
>>30489702

I've never even realised that the Moon actually appears to "shine" darkness.
This is mindblowing.

>>30489722
It provides an interesting context to NMM's eternal night as well. The moon IS greater than the sun, and Night eclipses Day more than just physically.

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>>30489722