Re: What up with that ghostbuster device?

On Feb 7, 10:50 pm, tdciago <tdci...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Feb 7, 10:35=EF=BF=BDpm, ark lost fan <ronbreed...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > Did anyone else think he was firing up a Dust Buster?
>
> Yes.  I think it was done for a very specific reason:
>
> Miles Straume =3D Maelstrom
>
> maelstrom
> 1 : a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a
> given radius
>
> whirlpool
> 1. A rapidly rotating current of water; a vortex.
> 2.
> a. Turmoil; whirl.
> b. A magnetic, impelling force into which one may be pulled.
>
> A rapidly rotating current of water or other liquid that sucks
> everything near it toward its center.
>
> vortex
> 1: something that resembles a whirlpool
> 2 a: a mass of fluid (as a liquid) with a whirling or circular motion
> that tends to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle and
> to draw toward this cavity or vacuum bodies subject to its action
> ________________________________
>
> Entering a maelstrom is like getting sucked into a pneumatic
> tube...like the one in the Pearl station.
>
> I think the island is inside, or at one end, of a maelstrom /
> whirlpool / vortex.  It occurred to me during tonight's episode that
> rain on the island may be connected with the action of this whirlpool.

So, Starbuck is also on the island? :)