Jim Gysin wrote:
> In Thursday's episode, Sayid was told by Gault that (according to
> Faraday) a bearing of 305 is the only safe way to get "to and from the
> boat."
>
> In the season two finale, Michael was told to follow a bearing of 325
> *from* the island to "find rescue."
>
> If things are stationary (as in the island is not spinning, or some
> such thing) and a bearing of 325 takes you safely *away* from the
> island (as it seemed to do for Michael), wouldn't it be most likely
> that to get safely *to* the island you would want to follow a course
> of 035?
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The bearing you follow to approach the island would change depending
on where your starting point is.
Take your house, for instance. Say that you can only enter through
your front door. Your front door may be at a bearing of 125 from your
place of work. On the other hand, it may be at a bearing of 150 from
the grocery store. While you can approach your front door from the
OUTSIDE from any compass point, you can only EXIT the front door from
one point.
As far as cir***navigating the globe.... why would one need to do
that? The worse case scenario is that one would have to cir***navigate
the island to get to the access point.
If your front door is on the north side of the house, and you are on
the south side of the house, all you need to do is walk around the house
to get to the front door.
Of course, you house isn't invisible, so you know exactly where the
walls are to avoid them...
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