It could be that she was threatened with physical harm, even death, if she said anything about it. And maybe that’s another reason they swapped Miles for CS Lewis.
When he says “follow the EXACT same bearing that you flew in on”, wouldn’t that just lead the pilot to follow his original path further into the island?
Surely he wants to take the back-bearing to get out the same way he came in. Am I being ultra-nitpickey or just wrong?
The former.
Perhaps. Maybe it’s a one-way corridor, so you have to follow it all the way over the island to the other side.
You know, as long we’re making up stuff.
Other possibilities:
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He really meant what he said. Navigation is so screwed up on the island that going back the way you came won’t work. The only way out is through. This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, but he did make a major point of saying it that way.
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It’s another code, like the sister line. In other words, somebody’s getting conned.
I’m not suggested either of these is likely. Just wanted to throw them out there.
In special relativity the speed of light is globally constant. However, in general relativity it’s only locally constant. This is because, for instance, time runs slow in a gravitational field. Therefore electromagnetic radiation (radio waves) would be proportionally delayed just as much as the missile is.
I’ll be on tenterhooks awaiting the explanation for the 31 minute time differential.
Why did the guy in the first scene get so uncomfortable once Sayid told him he was one of the Oceanic 6?
-Kris
What does “locally constant” mean?
Is it like, every observer will measure it as having the same speed given its location, but at a different location, all observers might measure it as having some other speed?
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If the people from the ship are Dharma, they would at least know how to fly a plane through to drop cargo to the old hatch. They are probably using the same flight path unless it shifted after Desmond turned the key. I am guessing that the hatch incident changed the time differential between the island and the rest of the world. Also, I don’t think time dilation is the answer. I think that you have to travel 31 minutes into the past to get on the island and presumably 31 minutes into the future to get off. Or vice/versa.
He knew his life was in danger. We don’t yet know why he knew that, but as soon as he found out Sayid was on flight 815, he freaked. I’m guessing he knew Ben was out for him for whatever reason.
Time runs slower in a gravitational field. If you’re at the same gravitational potential (usually at the same height with respect to a gravitating mass) then you will measure a photon’s speed to be 3 x 10[sup]8[/sup] m/s.
If, however, you’re a faraway observer unaffected by the g field time will run faster, and you’ll therefore measure photon’s speed to be less.
The photon in the first example is local with respect to you, but this is not true for the second example.
To make it simple local just means near (sort of).
I don’t think this has been answered - Elsa’s boss’s cover story was that he was an economist.
Speaking of which, in the final scene Ben asks Sayid “Is she dead?”. It seemed clear all along that Sayid was going after Elsa’s boss, so why does it appear that Ben is more interested in her death, not so much her boss’s?
Obviously the identity of Elsa’s boss is the next big mystery…“The Economist”… any bets on Old Man Widmore?
I know, I know, the show is all about the stars. But many of the survivors went with Jack- why do none of them rate higher than a dead body?
A really stupid quote from Thursday’s show:
Jack: “I can’t believe it’s been 100 days since I’ve seen a game.”
Um, I haven’t been stranded on an island, and it’s been about 110 days since I’ve seen a baseball game. He needs to suck it the hell up.
thegod067, I thought the same thing. The crash occurred at the end of baseball season, so in show time the next season wouldn’t even have started yet. Obviously, the writers just got lazy there.
And Paul The Younger, I can’t recall exactly, but was The Economist ever referred to as a “he”?
I think she said, “It’s my boss, he’s here” when the beeper finally went off. But I’m not sure.
By the way, just to make sure I understood correctly: Her apparent tears and anguish just before she tried to kill Sayid were just acting, correct? She never had actually fallen for him, right?
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Yup. The whole thing was a setup to capture and interrogate Sayid to get to his employer (who they may or may not know is Ben).
Which is why Ben was asking about if she’s dead. He knows there’s no way Sayid got to the real target, but he’s curious to know if there’s an assassin immediately on his heels.
That’s an amazing theory. I’m going to have to look into it further, but at first glance it does make some sense at least physically speaking. Although it doesn’t quite explain Jacob or the visions that well.
My thoughts on the Oceanic Six.
We know that Jack, Hurley and Sayid are three of the six.
My predictions:
Bernard and Rose and Locke survive, but stay on the Island. Not part of the six.
Kate (we know) survives, but hiding out under an assumed name. Not one of the six.
Claire survives, and is one of the six, baby also survives, but is not one of the six.
The other two of the six are Jin and Sun.
Sawyer dies.