There was steam or smoke coming from Ben when he woke up in the desert, what's up with that?

I'm sure it involves whatever cut his arm and made him puke as well... Time travel? I'd say its almost certain.

Actually, I thought that the air around him was cold and that was his breath in the cold air. After all, he was dressed for pretty cold weather.

But that would mean he and the air around him was essentially teleported to the Sahara. Or, perhaps, transported across time AND space . . .

Where ever Ben came from it was cold and once in the desert that cold on his jacket. etc was converted to steam.

It did seem like he'd been thrown to the ground from somewhere else. Not only steaming, but shivering. So wherever he came from, he got to the desert pretty fast. Did he escape a gunfight/knife fight (I don't know what caused his wound) by traveling to the Sahara with his injured arm? Strange scene, but very interesting.

The injured arm is still the biggest missing piece for me. I mean, clearly he traveled through time and space, but was it in the middle of a fight with someone or was he wounded in one other way.

I'm convinced Ben had traveled in both time and space when he appeared in Tunisia. The puking was a side effect of this travel. Remember when they had Juliet drink the orange juice and sedative...Ethan (or Richard?) told her something like "oh, you won't want to be awake for this, the ride can be pretty bumpy." I'll bet Ben usually takes some Dharma Dramamine before his "trips" off the island, but...judging by his arm injury...didn't have that luxury this time around. :sick:

Actually, I thought that the air around him was cold and that was his breath in the cold air. After all, he was dressed for pretty cold weather.

But that would mean he and the air around him was essentially teleported to the Sahara. Or, perhaps, transported across time AND space . . .
I don't believe real time travel is involved, only fake time travel, but I'll point out that if you travel in time and still wind up on Earth, you must travel in space just to keep up.

To be honest it probably had to do with The Orchid being located somewhere with cold weather. That's the most likely answer.

But it made me think of Back to the Future, personally, and how the DeLorean would be covered in ice after it had been time traveling, and inevitably steaming. Anyone else think of that?

I watched the ep at abc.com tonight in HD (gotta' love HD). Anyway....common sense tells me that they CG'd some frosty air into the scene. But.....my first thought was that it looked like some weird effect that radiated (light) throughout his body caused by the way he "traveled". I didn't notice this on my cheap 19" crappy TV last night.

when people first travelled through stargate they had frostbites on the face and clothes

same thing with ben when travelling through a wormhole