Wait, what?
Link to this thing, please!
-FrL-
eta: Found a small one. Was I whooshed?
:eek:
What does this mean?
-FrL-
Is it Seattle? Can’t really tell anything.
I don’t expect the writers to get all the physics correct, and I think if you just do some hand waving and say “relativistic effect”, that would be enough to explain things.
BTW, was it 31 seconds or 31 minutes?
I turned it upside down with an image editor and it no longer looks so much like a city. It’s something though. And it may be a city.
-FrL-
Sorry I meant 31 minutes. A lot of time dilation.
-FrL-
Or about mach 15. Which means they wouldn’t have heard it coming. Sometimes this show aggravates the crap out of me.
If they can make a paralyzed man walk and a cancer victim go into remission (among other things), playing fast and lose with physics is a misdemeanor in my book.
Yet light can be slowed down if it travels through a different medium. Most likely, the island is surrounded by some sort of electromagnetic field that dampens kinetic energy.
Here’s another.
It seems pretty undeniable that its a city.
I don’t think it has any deep meaning other than the Losties will end up back in civilization (which we already know, obviously).
Thanks everyone. I am easily confused. 
Although this means that Desmond and Sayid both go on the chopper but only Sayid is (so far) considered one of the “Oceanic Six”. Of course Desmond wasn’t on the plane, but I wonder if he will make it back to the real world.
It seems that could also play into why Walt’s still growing.
It was moving that fast when it first launched and SHOULD have reached them. Still, I assume that the weird time effect or some deliberate deceleration (turning the motor off?) was supposed to get it there at under Mach 15. Unless that thing looked well-packed enough for the payload to survive a crash at that speed?
-Joe
Any speculation about why Faraday insisted that the pilot fly on the exact same course he used when he came in? I wonder if it has anything do with the time shifting. Maybe if they don’t fly through the worm hole (or whatever) then the freighter will no longer be there.
Or they end up in the wrong dimension. Or they get wrecked by a storm.
Remember, Michael was supposed to do that as well.
-Joe
I did the same sort of thing in PhotoShop, and tried to correct it’s skew and did some sharpening and other crap.
Your right, it does look city-scape like, but it looks like something happened to it. Something bad.
But then again, it could be because of the imposition on top of the murky, foreboding waters. But if those are buildings, they still look weird… especially the one on the far right. What a weird shape for a building. But who knows how much distortion they put on the image in photoshop to make it look wavy.
After all, I think we’re making shapes outta clouds here… nothing to see… move on…
I wonder if the “rescue” that Michael was supposed to find was the freighter.
Oh, if Ben is the manipulator everyone thinks he is, yeah, probably. Thing is, that means that the freighter has set out there for 50ish days with Michael aboard.
And they would have started jetting out toward the island the moment the EMP happened, since Michael left right at the same time it happened. That assumes that the EMP was how they managed to find the island.
The big question I’m wondering about, if Ben DOES have a spy on the boat (Michael or not), how is this spy communicating huge amounts of information to Ben?
-Joe
Perhaps whatever “time bubble” that surrounds them has a “time thickness” to it. That is, there’s no discernible thickness to it in space, but if you travel past it, there’s some huge time difference. Maybe the further you go off of the bearing, the deeper you travel in time? Or something.
No real world physics applies.