Re: Time-travel expert: "Lost" could move the island through time and space

"Jim Gysin" <jimgysin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Wed, 14 May 2008 11:33:36 -0700, Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> In article <iPSdnYIYHpEDvrbVnZ2dnUVZ_t_inZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>  "Victor Velazquez" <k-canute@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > Anim8rFSK wrote:
>> > > In article <u7udnWQxZ-JjdbfVnZ2dnUVZ_iydnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > > "Mason Barge" <masonbarge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > >
>> > >> "Tony Calguire" <calguire@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > >> news:Xns9A9DB7A21B9C3tcfn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > >>>> http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/science_news/4263315.html
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> So just how can Locke move the island­-and where will he move
it,
>> > >>>> for that matter?
>> > >>>
>> > >>>
>> > >>> This is an interesting development, because it kinda explains one
>> > >>> of the mysteries from previous seasons... how did Mr. Eko's tiny
>> > >>> little drug trafficking plane take off from Nigeria and
crash-land
>> > >>> on a South Pacific island?  Or for that matter, how did the Black
>> > >>> Rock, and African slave ****p, wind up anywhere near a South
Pacific
>> > >>> island?
>> > >>
>> > >> Right.  Also the fossil discoveries in North Africa.  The "island"
>> > >> apparently has some ability to relocate in both time and space.
>> > >
>> > > But only on a heading of 305.
>> >
>> > I think the heading is there to keep from being "relocated;"
otherwise,
>> > weird juju ensues!
>>
>> I like the idea that the island is on a big long straight track, and
can
>> only move back and forth on a heading of 305  :)
>
> Not to sound like a broken record (heh), but I'm still trying to figure
> out how a person could go back *and* forth on one heading *if* both
> points A and B are relatively stationary.
>

Google "Columbus".  :)

Well, silly joke -- that would only work at 90 or 270, wouldn't it?  In 
fact, wouldn't any heading not divisible by 90 form some sort of curve
with 
a limit of a magnetic pole?