WiscBadger95 wrote:
I wonder if they aren't putting little cracks in the O6's cover story -- this, Aaron obviously being more than 5 weeks old, Sun giving birth to her husband's child 10 months after he died -- to have some outsider character figure out something's rotten in Denmark. For what reason I'm not sure, however.
Is there even an island within 1 day's drifting distance from the trench where the plane crash was planted? I can't imagine an island being that close to a deep trench. How far could currents carry you in one day? From general info on the web the faster currents in oceans are on the order of: The Gulf Stream, and the Kuroshio Currents (near Japan) flow with speed up to 0.4 to 1.2 m/s.1.2 meters/second is pretty quick and over 24 hours could carry you about 103 kilometers. But that's for optimal conditions in the Gulf Stream and in the equitorial Pacific near Indonesia/Australia I doubt the currents would be that fast.
Anyway, I guess the point is that maybe this will be one of those cracks in the story. I'll need to to more research on currents in the vicinity of the crash site.
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Ok, here's a better map of planted plane crash and the island the Survivors supposedly drifted to as best I could deduce from the Oceanic news conference map. The bottom line is that the ocean currents in the real world are in the wrong direction for our heroes to have drifted to that imaginary island. I wonder if that's an intentional error introduced by the writers. Probably not. Having Membata further to the west or the crash site further to the east would have made more sense.
