I am so confused about this.
OK, when Sayid and Desmond went to the boat weren't they gone for a day or so island time vs a couple of hours real time before being able to contact Jack?
So, wouldn't that mean that the time on the island moves faster than real time?
So, would they have been gone from the real world for less time than they had thought? How much time did the reporter say had gone by when he was asking about Aaron? Does it match up to the time they were on the island....plus a few days for government containment...or whoever contained them?
I think that the island's faster time could explain why women's bodies can't handle preganacies...it happens too quick for their pods to catch up. Could be.
OK, when Sayid and Desmond went to the boat weren't they gone for a day or so island time vs a couple of hours real time before being able to contact Jack?
So, wouldn't that mean that the time on the island moves faster than real time?
So, would they have been gone from the real world for less time than they had thought? How much time did the reporter say had gone by when he was asking about Aaron? Does it match up to the time they were on the island....plus a few days for government containment...or whoever contained them?
I think that the island's faster time could explain why women's bodies can't handle preganacies...it happens too quick for their pods to catch up. Could be.
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Re: Island time vs real time
Fri, May 16, 2008 - 8:38 AMWhy was Sayid able to go and come from the island so easily on a speed boat when other types of transport are unreliable? And now the mercenaries seem to be able to do so also. Is it because they have the correct bearing now or what. -
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Re: Island time vs real time
Fri, May 16, 2008 - 8:54 AMYea, correct bearing keeps you on target.
hummm. Maybe since the helicopter had to move off the bearing when taking Sayid and Des to the boat, they slipped out of the timeslot? (Don't know if you would call it that.) And since the doctor's body was just tossed over board it could slip in and out of the time anomaly....I like that word better.
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Re: Island time vs real time
Fri, May 16, 2008 - 1:02 PM@SupremeMugwump
<<So, wouldn't that mean that the time on the island moves faster than real time?>>
No. The facts seem, if anything, to point to both the passage of time and the current date being the same both on and off the Island, but that going through the time anomaly around the Island when not on the correct bearing will cause unpredictable time-"skips", either forward (in the case of the helicopter flight that unstuck Des in time) or back (in the case of Doc Ray's corpse).
That said, I'm holding my breath for the temporo-spatial impact of the Orchid...um, metaphorically speaking, of course. :-P
