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[Hypothetical] Every day, you forsee the death a random person located far away from you, and their death will happen in exactly 24 hours, how would you try and save them? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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You see a 1 minute clip right before they die. You have their real names (and any aliases), but that's all the info you have. You don't know their exact location, not even the country, nor their occupation, or whether they are a "good" or "bad" person. Their death is 99% guaranteed to happen unless you help them avert their death.

They will always be located at least 1/3 of the Earth's circumference away from you, so it means they will be guaranteed to not be within 13,333KM of your location at the moment you get the premonition.

What do you do with this knowledge? Try to save them? Or feel the guilt of their death forever, that you might've been able to prevent?

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I remember there being a show like this. The guy would get a newspaper from the future and try to stop the front page tragedy from happening. Think it was called Early Edition?

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Person of Interest had a similar idea too. A super computer would give them the SSN of someone about to die and they would investigate.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Came here to mention exactly this. It aired for 4 seasons during the late 90s. I watched it weekly with my family when I was a kid.

IIRC, the ending and lore left it wide open for a reboot, although they'd have to drastically change the framing away from a print newspaper.