we are learning to float

Ashley Loren had no connection to the Death Note musical until Comic Con, which she inexplicably was chosen to moderate and to sing one of Rem's songs for the Death Note panel.

However, up until earlier this year she was in Moulin Rouge! on Broadway, an adaption of the movie, and she was playing the lead lady, Satine. The owner of the Moulin Rouge!, Harold Zidler, was, at that time, played by Eric Anderson - who's Ryuk in the original English demo.

(Ashley and Eric together in Moulin Rouge!)

This also isn't the only time we've had actors from different productions together in a different show.

In early 2022, Jeremy Jordan traveled to London to perform in a concert version of Bonnie and Clyde as Clyde, a role he originated on Broadway, and a show also written by Frank Wildhorn. His Bonnie was Frances Mayli McCann. At this point, his role as Light on the demo was years behind him, and Francis originating the role of Misa on the West End was more than a year in the future, but they still went down together.

At a Jeremy Jordan concert in London, Grace (Rem) was lucky enough to be the one chosen to be serenaded by Jeremy!

somebody also smuggled a tiny bit of Mr Scott's ashes in an envelope jammed behind the insulation of the ISS somewhere but that was unofficial and naughty and we approve

Several dinosaur bones have been taken to space— *t-rex shakes fist* "You didn't get all of us!"

Amelia Earhart's wristwatch was taken up to the ISS on one of the anniversaries of her record-breaking transatlantic flight

The Mars Phoenix Lander carried digital copies of War of the Worlds 😅 and The Martian Chronicles!

The Juno spacecraft around Jupiter has a Lego crew: Galileo and the gods Jupiter and Juno (Zeus and Hera in Latin)

The ESA installed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights translated into 500+ languages in their lab on the ISS

Artemis 1 carried a bolt from Apollo 11, a sticker "CBAGF" which are the notes for Sinatra's "Fly Me to the Moon," numbers of the country codes for all the countries that worked on the project, the number 18 in binary to suggest it was also Apollo 18, and the first plushie "zero gravity indicator," a snoopy, a nickname given to the helmet liners the Apollo astronauts wore that doubled as headset holders.

In fact pretty much every spacecraft has a whole bunch of ingenious easter eggs, subject to weight and space limitations. For the past 20 years NASA has invited the public to submit names to be etched on microchip on most space explorations, although you'd better save the email and "boarding pass" bc NASA doesn't waste resources maintaining a searchable database of the hundreds of millions of names it's "launched" by now