Re: Number Stars and Connect Four - Winner May 2008

chirpey1987 · by chirpey1987 on Sun Jun 01, 2008 1:03 pm

I thik that this is really intresting and it defo means something.

TheHolyStickman · by TheHolyStickman on Wed Jun 04, 2008 6:47 pm

Just read this again. I got it this time, your saying that the island is 5000 years forward or backward in time. But if this was supposed to indicate time difference there would be less subtle ones. I liked to see somemore like this 5stades. Good job.

So_Lost · by So_Lost on Thu Jun 05, 2008 3:31 pm

Wow, just when I told my husband this morning that there aren't a whole lot of new theories going around that truly intrigue me, I read this!

What if, rather than the island being 50,000 years in the future, it is just on the other side of the Big Dipper? Like, if you could go to the other side of the universe (?!) and look toward Earth, wouldn't the constellations be reversed? Like two players on either side of the Connect 4 board.

It makes no sense, and yet blows my mind... affraid

vincentthedog · by vincentthedog on Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:46 pm

good call!

spirit_of_jazz · by spirit_of_jazz on Fri Jun 06, 2008 6:53 am

so_lost, what you just said... was cool.

i don't know what exactly is going on with this thing, but still... cool.

puchita · by puchita on Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:36 pm

Caged_Faraday wrote:
puchita wrote:If you arrange the numbers on the grid some other way you would be able to make the dipper point in the right direction.

I dont know that it has as much significance as you've suggested. I think the writers like to play with ideas, repeat it throughout the show and see if anyone caught it. This is a great catch though. I like how you noticed the numbers were set up in a grid like the connect four game.

Well, remember Connect 4 is a 2 player game. If player 1 (Leonard) played the numbers, player 2 (Hurley) would view Ursa Major correctly.

But then again, the constellation is wrong in the night sky... reversed as view on the opposite side of a lense.
This could be intentional and major. Could that be a side effect the electromagnetic field / Faraday Cage / Swan Station shielding the island from the rest of the world? It is reasonable that such a devise could bend light (since light has an electromagnetic wavelength).

I do still like your theory. its a fun idea. you suggested that the constellation pattern reverses depending if your player1 or player2. It makes you think if the island parallels to that idea - perhaps on the island they are looking out at something, and off the island they are looking back at something - like if there were a bubble or big plexi glass Wink

between the island and the rest of the world. That could explain why the constellation is reverse from the islands view. The losties are player1.

PortRoyalWenk · by PortRoyalWenk on Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:18 pm

Good one. This kinda ties in with the one I have over at LT about leonard and the numbers....But this one is more plausable I think. I always thought the numbers and connect 4 were related somehow.....and this theory pretty much ties it together really well.

solarchap · by solarchap on Sat Jun 07, 2008 11:11 pm

FS,

I actually forgot to comment on your theory, I thought it was excellent and original, and you were up against stiff competition in the poll, and I congratulate you on your win.

I voted for the snowglobe, I really liked that, but all of theories were of a very high quality.

Anyway well done!

SomeArztOnYou · by SomeArztOnYou on Sun Jun 08, 2008 8:40 pm

My only qualm with this is that the Island is in the South Pacific. How would they be seeing Ursa Major?

MyStarbuckHatesLost · by MyStarbuckHatesLost on Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:40 am

Well perhaps they saw Ursa Major from the island's PREVIOUS location. Like when it was in the mid Atlantic and people thought it was Atlantis...hmmm I sense a theory coming on.

Lateralus · by Lateralus on Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:29 pm

Can you even see Ursa Major from the Southern Hemisphere? or anywhere around Australia or Fiji?

kristenislost · by kristenislost on Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:36 pm

Does anyone think the phone call Kate got in reverse could be connected to this idea?

SomeArztOnYou · by SomeArztOnYou on Fri Jun 13, 2008 10:25 pm

Lateralus wrote:Can you even see Ursa Major from the Southern Hemisphere? or anywhere around Australia or Fiji?

Yeah, that's what I was thinking - it "circles" Polaris. If it were visible at all in the Southern Hemisphere, it would near the horizon and not visible for much of the night.

Little help? Anyone from Australia able to see Ursa Major?

fivestades · by fivestades on Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:10 pm

Hi Guys, I have been away and missed all these interesting comments!!

Ursa Major is never visible from the southern Hemisphere.

Since the dipper was shown high in the sky in season one I have always assumed the island is NOT in the South Pacific as we know it.

Also the shot of the Big Dipper in 'Special' is not a minor background shot but a 2-3 second full frontal

blonde · by blonde on Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:44 am

Props to you. WOW...