indulge yourself

By international treaty, no country can claim territory in space, so space is considered “international waters” and maritime law applies. Jurisdiction over maritime crimes can get quite complicated, but here’s a transcript of a statement given by FBI Assistant Director Salvador Hernandez to a Congressional committee in 2007. Since the murder happened on American soil and the murder weapon crossed jurisdictional lines, the FBI would have at least some jurisdiction, likely in cooperation with relevant Texas police. If another country is involved, it’d be up to the US Department of State to reach an agreement with the other nation’s government. So if you were standing on a European Space Agency-owned lunar lander when you fired the shot, the EU would have to be consulted. The NASA OIG might get involved, too, but they don’t do their own enforcement, they hand their findings off to the Department of Justice.

Reality is fundamentally flexible, it is fluid, pooling in some places and running thin in others. You may be familiar with the idea of a "thin" or liminal space, and their rarely-cited opposite, the proximal space.

All things exist on a spectrum of "real" to "not real" but they can never actually be 100% real or 100% unreal.

For example: prove to me right now that you're real.

Basically, it's impossible, we have to trust that our eyes and ears and tongues aren't lying to us when they tell us "yes we are experiencing the world right now" but they could be lying to us! This could all be a vivid dream and tomorrow we could wake up as a frog. That isn't likely, but the world is full of unlikely things.

So, if you can't prove that something is real, there is no capital-T Truth to reality, but (and here's where the woo-y occult philosophy bits come in) that means that there's also no capital-U Untruth to reality either.