What are YOU looking for?

[cobaltspectre]

Each week, I keep looking for signs of wreckage from the S.S. Minnow... :p What are other people looking for?

[Robo42]

Well Daniel does have that Gilligan quality to him. LOL Oh Maryann, I wish she was a lostie.

[cobaltspectre]

How old would Mary Ann Summers be, now? I was wondering what other kinds of things other viewers might be anticipating passing glimpses of in the background (even though they would have no direct bearing on the plot)... for instance, an aircraft tail # NR16020, an old suitcase engraved "D.B. Cooper," or a scorched, mostly buried Orb. I've been joking with my brother for months about finding a life preserver or something from the S.S. Minnow. Are other people looking for any other such things?

[Robo42]

Cobalt, it would be very funny if they threw some memorabilia in, just to see if someone would catch it, like the skippers hat or something. I will say this if you read the reads long enough it is amazing the details that most pick up. Unfortunately most of the ses details go right past me, which is why I like coming here. On your point specifically there was a radio transmission picked up from the freighter by Emeliah(sp) Aerhardt(sp) as if it was broadcast in real time.

[thelawgiver]

Hurley is looking for Tom Hanks because he hears he has a volleyball. Locke is looking for the temple, which is actually the Swiss Family Tree House.

[cobaltspectre]

I know very little about quantum physics; but, as the show goes on, it seems that the island is Earth's capitol for quantum weirdness... events that simultaneously happen and don't happen, for instance.

That aside-- and pardon the noob question-- but, has anyone explained why the heck the jet engines on the plane continued to operate after the crash, disconnected from the fuel tanks, pumps, etc.? :confused: That has nothing to do with magnetism or electricity.

[Robo42]

I've spent many years in the Air Force as an avionics mechanic and I'm fairly sure it is for effect. There is probably some residual fuel, but I don't think engines would be rotating for nearly that long at such a high speed and like you said with the fuel pumps, power disconnected, plus I believe there are safety cut off valves. They also did a similar thing in Castaway.

[cobaltspectre]

As I recall it, the engines were powering up, then powering down, then powering up, then powering down... my first reaction was "If this is the kind of realism I can expect from this show, I don't know how I'm going to distinguish mysteries of the island from simple, preposterous writing!" Then, there was the ep with that cornball ending with enemies smiling at each other as one tossed the other a piece of fruit-- ARRGH! Obviously, I'm glad I stuck around; but, if my brother weren't so keen on the show, and hadn't bought me the 1st season as a Christmas present, that stuff could have easily driven me away so early on.

[Archangel-Player]

The type of plane 815 was. Is a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar typicaly made 1968 and 1984. Withthe engine of a General Electric GE90 which was used on a Boeing 777. Flight 815's interier was also of that of a Boeing 777. Very simuler to a Tristar but differnt.

My guess would be fule left in the libe. But I wouyldn'tthink that much fule would still be in the line. imean that thing was going for a good 20/30 mins. Perhaps persure had something to do with it? That is what builds the thrusting.


I'll do some looking into it. See what i can find. That actualy is a great question.

[lostNspace]

When they finally make it to right side of the island .....



Mr. Roarke and "Tattoo"



Hugo turns and says " Sorry dudes"

[Robo42]

LOL Lost, I would also be great if Sawyer did'nt say a thing for once and just popped them. LOL

[lostNspace]

I had better add that I am a Hurley fan. I don't want the show to end this way and i don't want it to be Hugo's fault. I like the idea of Sawyer idea. That would be the perfect response to the WTF moment.

[justjoe]

I'm waiting for a wild man to run out of the jungle and shout "Uh Oh Chongo!!!!!!!!!!"

[thelawgiver]

JustJoe wins the prize for obsure reference of the day. Nice reference to "Danger Island", which was a serial shown during the "Banana Splits".

[justjoe]

It was a series? I thought I just dreamt that. Thanks for the props though.

[thelawgiver]

Here you go:

http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/kids/bananasplits.htm



For many, the most memorable feature segment was Danger Island. A live-action segment filmed on location, it featured the shipwrecked Professor Irwin Hayden and his crew as they outran dangerous natives, killer animals, and murderous pirates. The action-packed show featured a young man named Michael Vincent, who would come to be known as teen idol Jan-Michael Vincent, and many of the episodes were directed by Richard Donner, who would later helm the Lethal Weapon saga.

[justjoe]

Yeah I was kidding. I used to love the splits. One banana two banana three banana four. I hated Arabian Knoghts but I loved Danger Island and Gullivers Travels. Remember the Lilliputions?

[thelawgiver]

Oh yes, and especially Glum-"We're doomed, we'll never make it"

[Lost in VA]

You guys are telling your age...but Joe you dont look old enough to remember the Banana Splits.

[justjoe]

Lost in VA is my newest bestest buddy. Thank you buddy. Unfortunately I remember them from my childhood. Or maybe I just saw repeats?

[justjoe]

Just checked the dates and I wasn't born yet so I must have seen the reruns.

[Dzbabykel]

Yah I agree, you look really young Joe!

[bunnydixon]

i remember the banana splits - am sure it was the reruns too :p

[justjoe]

I love this place. Thank you for the kind words. I am 37 but feel (and look I guess) younger now than when I was 27. Not playing in bands and partying every night probably helps.

[Dzbabykel]

Wow! I would have definitely thought 27...good for you! :)

[bunnydixon]

I love this place. Thank you for the kind words. I am 37 but feel (and look I guess) younger now than when I was 27. Not playing in bands and partying every night probably helps.

i would never have said 37

i think i just look super haggard LOL!

[justjoe]

What was this thread about again?

[bunnydixon]

DB Cooper? or something......

[justjoe]

We'll go with that.

[TSOL1]

Wow, if a 37 year old didnt see the original show then now I know why I have no idea what you people are talking about. :)

[bunnydixon]

Wow, if a 37 year old didnt see the original show then now I know why I have no idea what you people are talking about. :)

neither do we a lot of the time LOL! :D :p

[cobaltspectre]

LOL! Mr. Roarke and Tattoo would be hard to put in the background, though... that would totally change the series. But, it would be great if they could sneak an allusion in there, somewhere... maybe a normal, white suit, and a tiny, white suit hanging next to each other in a closet. :D

As to the time-travelling radio transmission from Amelia Earhart (I knew that Lost had a time-travelling radio transmission, but didn't catch from where it had supposedly originated), I read a loooong time ago about an incident in which someone reported receiving a wireless telegraph transmission from the RMS Queen Elizabeth that must have been hovering around in the air for decades. I guessed that the event on Lost may have been a reference to that. It must have been around 1975 when I read about it; but, obviously, it made a big impression on me at the time. The wireless telegraph operator receiving it briefly considered the possibility that it may have actually come from the QE2; but, the location was completely wrong, and something about the code being used was wrong. If my memory serves, the transmission would have been sent when Queen Elizabeth was operating as a troop ship during WWII, 30+ years previous to its reception. I've searched the internet in vain for a reference to the article I'd read way back then, so I'm forced to rely on 30+ year old memory on this one. If anyone knows about the incident I'm barely recalling, I'd love to have my memory refreshed.

[bunnydixon]

that sounds fascinating! i love stories like that. hope you find some more out about it - would be interesting to hear.

[cobaltspectre]

I have a book that recounts many incidents in a similar vein; I'd checked it to see if it might have reference to the incident I was trying to recall; alas, it did not. But, there are a lot of other really bizarre events that have been documented. I'd bore everyone else silly, and possibly infringe on copyrights, if I transcribed them here, however.

[bunnydixon]

LOL!

Well get googling :p

[cobaltspectre]

I Googled my brains out (I'm just now stuffing the last of them back in) before just giving up and going from memory. I suppose it's too much to ask for everything I might have read from every source over my entire lifetime to be posted online, already. I can only hope that someone else knows of the event recounted in the article I read so long ago (or, is better with Google). I'm a big fan of stuff like that, as well.