symphonicGecko

One fantastic thing about the Death Note is (I don't recall this explanation in the anime, but it was explicitly explained in the manga) you can't use it to peripherally kill people. Only the person you name and picture dies. Otherwise Light could try to kill targets whose names he doesn't know by finding the names of those close to them and writing in murder-suicides or whatever. So if you kill five billionaires in a yacht fire that otherwise wouldn't have happened, the serving staff etc. will survive their fated lifespan. (The remaining lifespan thing has always been pretty awkward re: causality; we know that using the Death Note to kill people does change the lifespan of others via its influence on the world so one would imagine that it should shorten other lifespans and not being able to shorten them to a near-immediate death seems arbitrary, but let's not poke at that fabric lest we start wearing pot holes into it.)

In the particular case of "A, B and C die in a fiery yacht explosion", if the yacht explosion would kill other people, they'd just die of heart attacks instead. If one of them was piloting the yacht and their death would cause the yacht to kill somebody else, they'll die of a heart attack at the soonest point after the scheduled time of death such that their death won't be the proximate cause of somebody else's death. (Can deaths caused by the Death Note cause collateral damage short of death? Maybe, but I suspect invoking them in the death condition would either result in those conditions being ignored, or the victim dying of a heart attack instead: it's a Death Note, not a Fractured Arm Note.)

(Pulling back from the billionaire example: a surgeon won't die in the middle of surgery if this would kill the patient, but it's permitted that somebody might die sooner as the result of the surgeon no longer being available to operate on them. Curiously, Shinigami will see the indirect victim's lifespan as it would have been had the surgeon not died.)

I feel that the rules on disease are illustrative of the limits of the Death Note:

"X will die of COVID in 10 days" will result in them contracting COVID and dying in 10 days.

"X will die of lung cancer in 10 days" will result in them dying of a heart attack in 10 days, unless they already have a case of lung cancer that could reasonably kill them.

"X will die of lung cancer" (with no time specified) will cause them to get a case of aggressive lung cancer, which will kill them as soon as it realistically can, even if that time is outside of the typical 23 day window the Death Note operates in.

There are also rules indicating that the conditions of death must be physically possible, and reasonably carried out by that human. This prevents deaths like "X explodes into a swarm of kittens" and "X dies while reentering Earth's atmosphere" (unless e.g. X is an astronaut).

While not explicitly stated, I suspect:

If you indicate that somebody is killed by a falling meteor, the Death Note will strive to get them into a position where a meteor of sufficient size was going to fall anyway. It's not going to violate conservation of mass to summon one into existence, nor conservation of energy to shove one towards Earth. If there's no viable meteor candidate reachable under normal circumstances: heart attack.

You might be able to specify another person as an agent of an accidental death, but you can't use the Death Note to force somebody to become a murderer unless they were already inclined to murder the victim: the Death Note will provide opportunity, but not motive or inclination. (This is heavily inferred from a rule stating that "all humans are thought to posses the potential to commit suicide".)

Expanding on the above, the fact that the Death Note can manipulate plausible accidents to happen indicates that it must be capable of influencing the behaviour of people other than the one listed in the Death Note, but I suspect that influence is minimal. Influence over the named victim is greater, but still has limits: nobody will hijack a plane just to make it to their appointed time and place of death.

On the feasibility of an "AI server farm explosion", you'd need a reasonable way for the server farm to explode (gas leak?), a means for the victim to be inside, and a high likelihood that nobody else is present at the time.

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i kinda assumed he just had an annoying voice or smth

but like??? he's fine??????

he's cute and polite and helpful??

i mean seriously just look at him

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Also prev tags:

It's probably already been spread around here enough already, but in case anyone's missed it; 7 hours after launch, commander Reid Wiseman, dealing with tech issues, uttered the generational quote "I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working."

After fixing the issues that were afflicting the onboard toilet, mission specialist Christina Koch (who has quickly become my favourite of the four) laughingly said “I’m the space plumber, I’m proud to call myself the space plumber.”

On Easter Sunday, the Artemis II crew hosted a makeshift egg hunt, by hiding packets of dehydrated scrambled eggs around their Orion capsule.

The way the crew always makes sure to make it very clear they're in space when doing interviews. From stuff like Wiseman just hanging out floating sideways on screen or Koch letting her hair loose so it can freely span out flowing around her.

While in transit, the crew decided to record a parody of those bad 80s sitcom intros where everyone turns and smiles at the camera.

When the crew reached the furthest point from Earth in the mission, they jokingly clambored over each other in an effort to get to the far side of the capsule, so that they could individually claim to be the furthest person from earth.

At the same time, on the ISS which was at the time on the other side of earth, the 7 astronauts onboard had a light-hearted race to the far side of the station, making jokes about being the furthest humans from Artemis.

On the way back to earth, NASA actually managed to establish an audio call between the crews of the ISS and Artemis II (where they shared the above info), and Koch called one member of the ISS crew, Jessica Meir, her "astro-sister" as the two of them previously spacewalker together in 2019. Meir then responded I'm so happy that we are back in space together, even if we are a few miles apart" (a few here being 230,000).

"Copy. Moon joy."

"I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."

"Houston, if you could give me about 20 new superlatives in the mission summary for tomorrow that will help out my vocabulary a little bit, that would be great. Thank you."

“If you’ve ever seen the top of the spotlight of the top of the Luxor at night in Vegas, this looks like what it wants to be when it grows up.”

"To all of you down there on Earth... we love you, from the moon. See you on the other side."

"We just went sci fi.

"It is so great to see Earth again. To Asia, Africa, and Oceania: we are looking back at you. We hear you can look up and see the moon right now. We see you too."

"We will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other."

“It’s a bright spot on the moon, and we would like to call it Carroll.” (The name of Commander Reid Wiseman's late wife)

"Amaze amaze amaze."

"I said that we do not leave Earth, but we choose it. And that is true."

"Christina has been sleeping head down in the middle of the vehicle, kind of like a bat"

"It's really fun to be floatin' around, it just makes me feel like a little kid."

"Trust us, you look amazing, you look beautiful."

"'Homo Sapiens' is all of us, no matter where you're from or what you look like. We're all one people."

"We're going to power cycle the toilet from the ground."

"I'm proud to call myself the Space Plumber."

"We were all eagerly awaiting the chorus." (After Mission Control cut off Pink Pony Club early when waking up the crew)

"Copy heart. Copy bracelet." (In response to Wiseman giving his daughters heart hands and showing them the bracelets they made him that he was wearing)

“Welcome back. We are still here. They are in space.”

"Copy. Bubble wrap nominal."

"We have rediscovered the chocolate snacks."

“The truth is, the moon really is its own body in the universe. It's not just a poster in the sky that goes by, it is a real place."

“We will build ships. We will visit again. We will construct science outposts. We will drive rovers, we will do radio astronomy.”

"I've seen a lot of new perspectives, but my perspective has not changed because I launched with the perspective that there is enough for all." (After being asked if they had a new view on humankind.)

he is a deeply misogynistic loser with mommy and daddy issues so severe he literally never spoke to his mother again after moving out. he is mentally ill in at least five different directions simultaneously. he is schizophrenic and bipolar and autistic and paranoid and an asshole. he is the funniest character in the entire musical.

he is an irredeemable piece of shit and i want him dead and i also want him. both things are true. florence should have beaten him up. she deserved that. but he is also a wet kicked puppy who learned as a child that acting out was the only way to get anyone to look at him. he is pathetic and cruel and also you understand exactly how he got that way. he is xenophobic and paranoid and way too expressive. he thinks he is playing everyone but he is so easy to play.

he sees the entire world as chess. every interaction is a game with winners and losers. he cannot do nuance. he only cares about chess and money because chess was his escape and money meant he could escape for real. he has no real friends except florence and even then he isn't a friend to her. she is his mother figure and his punching bag and his codependent mess all at once.

he hates anatoly. he loves anatoly. he hates anatoly for leaving his wife and children because that is exactly what freddie's own father did. but he also cannot stop thinking about him. the fixation is so obvious that everyone can pick up on the fact he is probably gay except for freddie himself. he is sex repulsed and probably asexual and also gay and also repressed and also dealing with internalized homophobia.

bobby fischer existing in the same timeline as freddie trumper implies that every american chess prodigy just comes off the assembly line with paranoid delusions. like it's not a coincidence. it's a pattern.