my small theory

tails2

well i have been thinking azbout this for a while but keep forgetting to post it... anyways, i dont know if this has comeup anywhere elseon here or anywhere on the net but

whatif the losties and others and everyone as of yet that have ended up on the island are actually stuck in the bermuda/bremuda sp??? triangle. and the dharma group where trying to find some solution to the triangle or figure the triangle out.

just a thought, ill post more when i remember everything i had thought about before.

Mr E

The Lost island is in the pacific (somewhere between Australia and LA).
The Bermuda Triangle is the other side of America (south east coast).

tails2

how do you know they are there... remember they went 1000 miles at least, off course. it is only about 8500 miles from aus to usa, it could have happened.

Rollo Tamasi

i think tails2 has it in a nutshell. There goes my theory of it being the reject island for Willy Wonka's Oompa Loompas

iFight

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

i think tails2 has it in a nutshell. There goes my theory of it being the reject island for Willy Wonka's Oompa Loompas

No way, oompa lumpas sounds bang on, it explains everything

Dapos

that idea had crossed my mind at one stage too...

danniemcq

tails2 wrote:

how do you know they are there... remember they went 1000 miles at least, off course. it is only about 8500 miles from aus to usa, it could have happened.

lol thats the funniest thing i've read EVER!

if they were that close to the US they wouldn't have turned back plus they weren't in the air very long plus the monsoon season they are goin through right now.

hang on forget all that if they turned back they would need at least half of their fuel (i know planes have 1.5 times whats needed) but turning back near the PSR would be suicide

although i will say there is reports of other triangles much like the bermuda triangle thoughout the world (including one of Scotland iirc)

Silage

If you had a map and a claculator you could estimate where they are. They were six hrs in when they changed course towards fiji. Just calculate how many miles they wud have travelled in 6 hrs, calculate that distance on a map then calculate 1000 miles to fiji. If i wasn't lazy i wud try it.

But one thing is for sure, they are nowhere near the bermuda triangle.

chamlis

danniemcq wrote:

although i will say there is reports of other triangles much like the bermuda triangle thoughout the world (including one of Scotland iirc)

There are quite a few actually, at least one of which is in the Pacific.
I doubt that's what's going on though.

upmeath

Well the pilot reveals as much as we're going to know for quite some time in Series 1 (Pilot). He said they'd flown for 2 hours in the wrong direction, around 1000 miles off course, en route to Fiji. We're probably not going to know much more for a while.
I suggested a Coordinates theory of my own, whereby the numbers combined give the geographical coordinates of this island. I got a few responses saying the coordinates matched an area in the Pacific Ocean just North-East of Fiji, and apparently the little shimmy in the International Date Line (which may bear some relevance to the computer and the clock's purpose):


Either way the credibility of the survivors crashing in the Bermuda Triangle is scarce, taking the figures, time periods, distances and geographical guidepoints given by the pilot into account. Bar they travelled through some Mid-Pacific teleportal. They could be in a Pacific equivalent of course, that theory is as valid as any.

I don't know how to mask spoilers but something's been said in recent US episodes which may be of some relevance here so if anyone can tell me how to mask them I'd be glad to part with the knowledge!

upmeath

Okay I found out how it's done... Just went to the trusty old stickies! Anyway, here's the little spoiler. It doesn't shed much light on the island's location but it's just a bit of a strange quote...
U.S. SPOILER ONLY READ IF YOU'VE SEEN UP TO S2E18:

In Season 2 Episode 18, "Dave", Locke is interrogating Henry Gale about the Others. Here's a little bit of the dialogue...

Locke: Did you get caught on purpose? You and your people have been here for God knows how long, and you got caught in a net...
Henry Gale: God doesn't know.
Locke: Excuse me?
Henry Gale: God doesn't know how long we've been here, John. He can't see this island any better than the rest of the world can.

Maybe this is a bit of a go at Locke's faith, his hopes of rescue or just some psychological dig, but what the hell could Henry Gale mean by this?