No doubt it was a 31-minute difference
I’m surprised they shot a missle so close to their ‘copter. I was half expecting them to destroy the freakin’ thing.
That’s a good question. What the heck happened to all the rest of the Others?
When we saw them last, they were on their way to the Temple.
It wasn’t really a missile. No explosive. I suppose there’s a chance it could have hit a rotor or something else on the helicopter, but it was basically just a piece of metal, not designed to damage anything.
In the season opener, there were lots of occurrances of “the numbers” in the murdered kid’s room when Ghostbuster Miles showed up.
The other Others went to The Temple to hide when Ben took off for the radio tower last season.
I wonder about the Italian guy that Sayid killed. Surely he knew, in advance, who Sayid was or else why did he make a point to chase him down on the golf course? Seems odd that he was taken by surprise.
My friends are swearing that we only know who 2 of the Oceanic 6 are-- Hurley and Sayid. I say no way, that Jack and Kate have to be part of that group, too, even though they haven’t explicitly claimed to be. Thoughts?
tanstaafl: I like your theory!
What does Naomi’s bracelet say? I can’t quite make it out in the picture linked above.
" ----- always be with you RG"
I would assume the “-----” is “I will” but it doesn’t look like “I will” in the picture.
Anyway, what if Naomi and Sayid’s girl are operatives of a similar sort for the same organization and this is a bracelet such operatives wear to remind them that they are being watched by their superiors.
Or okay, more probably, Sayid gave her the bracelet. (Because otherwise it seems like he would have noticed it earlier and thereby known that the lady knew more than she was letting on.)
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Jack got a “golden ticket” and was thinking about “growing a beard” in order to disguise himself from all the fans. Pretty clearly one of the six.
Kate probably is, too, especially given the preview for next week’s episode.
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I happened to be watching the closed captioning.* He said something to the effect of “That’s how you recruited me to do your killing for you.”
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*I originally started doing this because my little 11 month old sleeps on me until I go to bed and she tends to be a loud breather in her sleep, right in my ear, and sometimes wakes up crying. But I sometimes use captioning now even when I don’t have to because it often reveals the content of whispered or backgrounded conversations you wouldn’t have heard otherwise. Kind of cheating, I guess. 
I’m pretty sure that in the trailers hyping the revelation of the “next” member of the Oceanic 6, they said it was the fourth member we’d be seeing. Perhaps I’m confabulating, but that’s what I remember
Given enough speed, a piece of metal can do a lot of damamge. It looked to me like it was travelling fast enough. Then again, considering that it didn’t burry itself too far into the ground when it landed, I suppose it wasn’t that bad after all.
The island feels kinda like Tolkien’s Undying Lands…hard to get to directly; existing on a slightly off-kilter plane, and you can’t get there unless you’re special and/or know precisely where you’re going.
Unrelated to last night’s episode: I just noticed something about the official Lost logo (used at the end of every commercial, upcoming preview, etc). It shows a cliff, and a reflection in the water – but the reflection is of something unrelated. Can anyone tell exactly what is being reflected in the water?
I was surprised that Jack even let Faraday do his experiment in the first place. What an idiot-- Oh, yeah, let’s just let these people who are not here to rescue us fire rockets at us!!
Interesting that time is slower on the island than out in the world. I wonder if that means when they’re rescued, they jump from 4 months to close to our current time without having to have the 3 or so years pass by. I was going to do the math, but the ship might be close enough that it is probably also being affected by the time warp.
Oh, and don’t anybody be fooled by the peaceful helicopter scene towards the end-- that lovely weather can’t last after what Faraday told them about sticking to the same course no matter what.
I’m having trouble with the 31 minutes thing.
Why is it the projectile came 31 minutes late, but the voices on the phone were not delayed at all?
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Thanks Frylock! I have to figure out how to work my closed captioning.
The speed of light is constant, no matter what the reference frame.
It’s a cityscape.
A bullet is also just a piece of metal and this particular piece was traveling about 5 km per second.
The Misfit (linked to in the OP) has some funny lines, but I like the one where he says “I thOUGHT Saytid OVERREACTED slightly WHEN he lost THE golf BET by shooting the MAN!!”
I thought of that, but I’m not so sure that explanation works.
(It may nevertheless be what the writers have in mind.)
I’ll mull it over some more. But if time dilation due to acceleration is supposed to explain it, then that’s some crazy ass acceleration the projectile had to have undergone somewhere on the trip to lose a whole 31 seconds, since the losties are apparently close enough to the boat that there is no noticeable delay between their speaking on the phone and the reciever hearing it on the other end.
I don’t know the math in any detail, but it seems like the acceleration required for that amount of dilation over that small of a distance would be enough to rip the projectile apart. But I may just have the physics wrong, not to speak of the math.
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