The Hanso foundation could be named for Hans Oersted.
The Oersted satellite orbits the earth every 108 minutes.
The numbers will never be shown to mean anything, because they're just coordinates near Ann Arbor, MI, home of one of the writers.
The guy who turned Kate in (Ray Mullen) in Australia is connected to this whole thing.
They originally wanted Jack's father, rather than Jack, but since he died, they settled for Jack.
Remember in the pilot, when they crashed? We never actually saw them crash. We saw the start of the crash, and then the screen went blank. When it came back, they were all thrashing around in the water and on the beach. We have no real idea how much time passed between the crash and them finding themselves on the island.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
The first link doesn't work.
The picture in the second link isn't there anymore.
Posted by Swampjedi (Member # 7374) on :
The first link works for me. Gosh, that's some interesting stuff.
Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :
The question of course is, have the writers actually thought that far ahead? Or are they just making it up as they go along?
Posted by sweetbaboo (Member # 8845) on :
Interesting.
Posted by solo (Member # 3148) on :
quote:Originally posted by starLisa:
The numbers will never be shown to mean anything, because they're just coordinates near Ann Arbor, MI, home of one of the writers.
I've never heard that they are coordinates near Ann Arbor. If you put them into mapquest as decimal degrees as follows:
Lat: 4.815 Long: 162.342
The position is somewhere near Fiji on the path between Australia and L.A.
I'm sure if the numbers were arranged differently they could be almost anywhere in the world though.
Posted by solo (Member # 3148) on :
Here is an interesting Google Maps map when you type in those coordinates.
Posted by solo (Member # 3148) on :
There is also lots of talk on the numbers being coordinates here.
quote:The coordinates are then N 4º 8'15", W 16º 23'42"
Central African republic
Which is apparently one of the areas on the earth with the highest magnetic anomalies, which further ties in to other info from starLisa's link.
Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :
Matches a couple of the numbers, I may be off on something to.
I do like to double check a lot of stuff with these numbers. Someone swore on one of these sites that the 42nd word of the Jewish bible was Satan. Not exactly accurate.
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
Not even close. The word "satan" doesn't even appear in the Torah, so far as I'm aware. Maybe they meant serpent? I mean, they'd be wrong anyway, but at least that's closer.
Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
My copy (JPS, which is in English) shows the 42nd word to be "God."
Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :