OK, I have raked my brain and debated my friends until they are sick of hearing my ideas about this, but...what is up with the two different bearings? Ben tells Michael to use 325 as his compass bearing to leave the island safely. Faraday has everyone he talks to use a bearing of 305.
My thoughts on this are that Ben knows the true bearing and that Faraday has calculated a safe bearing that just happens to work. For those who are familiar with harmonics of a frequency, Faraday's bearing may just be a multiple of the main pathway producing several workable bearings with Ben's 325 degree bearing being the center frequency, so to speak, and Faraday's 305 bearing being some 'harmonic' of the true center bearing. The alternate windows through the barrier might be more narrow or more dangerous but work nonetheless.
Is this bearing difference a typo in the scripts or something very intentional? If this has been answered, please post a link as little things like this drive me nuts and my friends are tired of my rant...lol
I was asking myself the same question about the bearing difference. My thoughts are that Ben moved the Island after Michael departed with Walt securing the Island so that Michael wouldn't be able to get back or share the bearing with anyone else. I also believe that when Miles had the meeting with Ben (that Kate arranged) that Miles was giving Ben information. I believe that Miles is linked to Ben, perhaps a spy.
I was thinking the same thing Carpe... Like Ben purposely sent them on an incorrect bearing so they would arrive back in the "real world" at a different time, like maybe before the plane crash??? I am in no way saying it was definitely prior to the crash... it could be anytime...
Could it possibly be as simple as departing/arriving at different places on the island?
I don't know about bearings and such, but if faraday has them coming in close to the beach camp, and Ben has Michael leaving from the Ferry Docks...farther north...wouldn't that make for different bearings?
Could it possibly be as simple as departing/arriving at different places on the island?
I don't know about bearings and such, but if faraday has them coming in close to the beach camp, and Ben has Michael leaving from the Ferry Docks...farther north...wouldn't that make for different bearings?
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That was exactly my first thought as well, simply that they were each at separate points when they were leaving. But I also don't really know anything about navigation to know if that would change it.
My husband worked on submarines, so I asked him to explain:
A bearing needs a minimum of two fixed points. If Michael and Walt were starting out from a different point then they would have a different bearing to get through whatever crack there is in the islands "insanity shield."
305-180= 125
If 305 is the baring from the freighter to the beach then 125 would be the bearing from the beach to the freighter.
I think the bearings are a little screwy on the show.
My husband worked on submarines, so I asked him to explain:
A bearing needs a minimum of two fixed points. If Michael and Walt were starting out from a different point then they would have a different bearing to get through whatever crack there is in the islands "insanity shield."
305-180= 125
If 305 is the baring from the freighter to the beach then 125 would be the bearing from the beach to the freighter.
I think the bearings are a little screwy on the show.
Thanks for asking him. Much appreciated!
325 doesn't necessarily have to make things screwy does it? I don't think Ben was sending Michael to the freighter, so we don't really know the destination to judge if the bearing was wrong. Or am I wrong? Or did I confuse everyone?
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