Note: I haven’t seen this weeks Lost so these are all based off of previous episodes.
Ok to start, stating the obvious:
Asian ghost whisperer = Asian scientist from Dharma movies baby
Angry army girl from past = Faraday’s mom
Now I feel like we found out just recently how red head woman was connected to the island as a youngster but now I can’t remember what the deal was. Will some one remind me?
I think its funny that Locke is the ‘Man of Faith’ and that the writers basically use him as ‘the sucker’. Seriously, how many times has someone come along, become his friend and then screwed him over. Now the Others say “come be our leader” and then after a week at most, “save the island Locke even if you have to die”. Granted he feels this is the real thing this time and this is what he was meant to do but he has felt that way every time. So Lost moral “Man of Faith” = Sucker.
So the island issue is hard to resolve. It has moved because it disappeared but it’s not moving with them because the island they go to is the old one. So more than one thing is happening here. Maybe there is some kind of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle at play. Island’s position in space becomes variable but its position in time is well defined: people’s position in time becomes variable but their position in space is well defined.
Now, as one of the two resident scientists I feel the need to say sciency things (Robin you can correct me if I’m wrong):
Chekhov's Gun:
Hydrogen bombs are made of a multistage system. The first stage involves a fissile material in a sub-critical geometry. The fissile material is surrounded by a conventional explosive. The first stage is separated from the second stage by an inter-stage. The second stage is made up of a fusile material (special kind of hydrogen) surrounded by more fissile material. The explosives implode the first stage, it becomes supercritical, a fission reaction takes place, the inter-stage directs the resulting x-rays and neutrons into the second stage where, if everything is just right, a fusion reaction occurs. There’s not really the same risk as you have in reactors of the bomb going critical because of the way the fissile material is arranged (in fact early H-bombs had a problem with not becoming a fusion reaction when detonated). The bi products of approaching super-criticality are not really electrical charge and magnetism as much as other things (x-rays and neutrons). So the whole hatch = controlling unstable H-bomb doesn’t really make sense to me. However, if you want to argue that the hatch exploding was the bomb exploding you could explain the fact that the island was not obliterated by the likely possibility that the fissile material went critical but that the fusion reaction failed to start. Harder to explain would be the lack of radiation burns on everyone.
Jin’s Alive?
High power explosives like the copious amounts found on the boat kill people in three ways: 1) radiation burns you to cinders before the shock wave even hits you, 2) shrapnel tears you to pieces and the deadliest and least realized 3) shock wave breaks every bone in your body into tiny pieces and rips the flesh off your body. So how did Jin live? Science!!!! I guess. Even if he was in the water, the resulting shock wave would have flattened his chest. Liquid is relatively incompressible, gas is compressible, water shock wave hits Jin, the air in his lungs compress to 1/100 of its original size, all of Jin’s ribs are broken and his lungs have holes in them. I am very excited to get to learn about Rousseau’s team though so I won’t cause a scene.
Basically, I am really excited about Lost again.
Nick that is totally random about the pneumothorax notes. I miss shee sha too.
