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See if I could get some very old people or otherwise have terminal illnesses volunteer to have their names written in it. We can use that data to experiment more with the note and figure out how it works. The existence of such an object implies massive things wrong with our current understanding of the universe, so figuring that out might be really helpful.
I believe it canonically can't run out of pages, so I'd think hard about how to leverage infinite free paper into world domination.
I don't think you can infinitely fast pull out papers of the death note, so I doubt that you can produce more paper per hour than the average paper factory.
Burn the paper to fuel a turbine. Congratulations you now have infinite free energy.
Then it turns out that Death Note smoke particles retain the magic qualities of the source. Writing one's name in dust with a fingertip becomes fraught with peril.
It may be extremely difficult to remove pages at a fast enough rate for this to be practically useful.
And you've set global warming to continue even beyond the exhaustion of fossil fuels.
The paper is white yes? If we can cover reasonably large areas of land with it it would make a pretty good reflector of solar radiation
You have to make sure nobody writes any names on it.
That's a really good fanfiction idea. I hope you won't mind if I swipe it.
Not at all. Although to some extent I just asked, what would HJPEV do if he got a Death Note?
Harry wasn't even willing to use hoarcruxes. If you won't kill a dying man to make someone else immortal, then you're not going to do it just to throw science at the wall to see what sticks.
True, so this isn't quite what HJPEV would do but more what would he do if he were slighlty less of an absolutist. (Actually has he ever explicitly said in text that he wouldn't do that. I suspect given his attitudes that you are correct, but I'm curious what the textual basis is.)
-- Chapter 39: Pretending to be Wise, Pt 1
Well done. You have just levelled up.
Could someone who downvoted this please tell me why? I was praising a useful thought (WWHJPEVD?).
Nonspecific praise clutters up the thread. Next time, just upvote--it conveys the same information.
Thanks!
The above is a terribly ironic reply.
Why our kind can't cooperate seems relevant. Even nonspecfic praise can create more fuzzy feelings than an upvote.
I think the fanfiction could be quite good at explaining to people modern cryptography and anonymity.
Also could examine concepts of personal identity, e.g. if someone converts and changes their name does the note recognise only the birth name or the new one? What about trans people who change names? You could ahve people tactically altering their self conception to avoid the effects of the note...
How do you recruit the volunteers without giving away that you have a death note and some secret service wanting to take it away from you?
Alternately, you could have a codemned criminal slip and break his neck on the way to the lethal injection.