So Entertainment Weekly claims to have solved all the mysteries of Lost. Right....They claim it's a SPOILER, since they are sure that they know it all. But I consider it a theory more than a spoiler.
Anyway, if you want to check it out, go here:

EW Lost


This is where they claim the numbers come from:
Lost Numbers

What do y'all think? I hope this hasn't been posted yet, I searched, I really did!

Interesting... but 42 is between Australia and Africa...

Isn't the island in the Pacific, to the right of Australia?

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It's all kind of complicated and strange, but the final answer is the Island is located exactly at point 42 on the grid -- it's about halfway between Australia and the east side of the African continent.

That would require that the plane flew in the opposite direction it was supposed to have flown. Wouldn't one of the many passengers have noticed, "Whoa, the sun is in the wrong place."

I mentioned this in my numbers thread. It doesn't work out simply because if you look at all the numbers on the grid, they don't even properly connect to each other or form a reasonable path of any kind. It's a totally random thing that I bet the person who submitted it just came up with in order to have something to show people. It's not likely that it holds any water.

Yeah....Its just a theory...It doesn't really all fit.,......and the article is just "We've solved Lost! Again." They're all full of it.

Yeah, I just posted it because I thought you all would find it funny how they were like, "we solved everymystery in Lost." As if an entertainment magazine is going to be the first to figure it all out. Obviously it will be someone on this forum...

Someone please remind me...why do we know (or think) the flight went down EAST and not WEST of Australia?

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Originally posted by bellnier:
Someone please remind me...why do we know (or think) the flight went down EAST and not WEST of Australia?

I don't know that we specifically know that, at least not that I can remember. Part of the intent is that nobody knows where the heck they are. It wouldn't take to much off course flying to change the location. If you look at maps of the region, however, it seems there are a lot more little remote islands east of Indonesia and north of Australia. That is mere speculation, however.

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Originally posted by pagecarl:

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Originally posted by bellnier:
Someone please remind me...why do we know (or think) the flight went down EAST and not WEST of Australia?

I don't know that we specifically know that, at least not that I can remember. Part of the intent is that nobody knows where the heck they are. It wouldn't take to much off course flying to change the location. If you look at maps of the region, however, it seems there are a lot more little remote islands east of Indonesia and north of Australia. That is mere speculation, however.

I think we can safely say that unless there was some sci-fi-type of transportation (e.g., through a "wormhole" in the earth a la the Bermuda Triangle), we know that the flight crashed northeast of Australia. 815 was on its way from Sydney to LA--northeast. The pilot referenced Fiji--northeast of Sydney--before becoming a rawhide log. And Australia is at least 3,000 miles wide, so even if the flight was 1,000 miles off course, the crash could not have been west of Australia.

This is what bothers me. Didn't Mr. Eko's brothers plane fly from Africa to this remote island? That distance is already 7000 miles (Johannesburg to Sydney)...then we have to add a another 500-1000 miles to that? How did that crappy little plane get that far except for some sci-fi-type transportation? A modern, twin-engine passenger/cargo turboprop like the Beachcraft Raytheon C-12 Huron (roughly the same size as the Eko family air-buggy) has a range of only 2000 miles or so. Hmmmmm.

Just a thought - They could have stopped for gas.

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Originally posted by ugottaride:
Just a thought - They could have stopped for gas.

There you go with that subtle sarcasm. The same thought had crossed my mind.

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Originally posted by ugottaride:
Just a thought - They could have stopped for gas.

Nah - makes too much sense.

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Just a thought - They could have stopped for gas.

I always thought this would be easy for the writers to explain (although people may not like the explanation). One of Ecko's henchman has a cousin in the US who says he can unload any type of drugs. Ecko's henchman sees the opportunity and decides to hijack the plane. They make several jumps - landing and refueling - until Australia. Then they crash on the last leg of their journey.

This is not the most exciting revelation, but I think I would buy it.

It would make more sense if the plane were leaving from Africa for the island to be in the Indian ocean however. Also, the other Hanso foundation facility is in Zanzibar according to the website. Maybe there is a connection.

Why the plane would be heading in the wrong direction would be another mystery. I hardly think they were just "of course." Of course it could imply the pilots were involved somehow. Who knows?

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Why the plane would be heading in the wrong direction would be another mystery. I hardly think they were just "of course."

See my theory above...

They were flying the plane to South America (on a non-direct path) in order to use the typical drug delivery routes. If I wanted to get a large load of drugs from Africa to the US, it seems that taking them through South America would be a good way to go about it, particularly if I had contacts there.

Of course, for those who think that the island is man-made and can move around, this problem solves itself.

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Of course, for those who think that the island is man-made and can move around...

That idea cracks me up every time someone suggests it. For some reason I picture something like a float in the rose parade, with one guy driving this immensely oversized island around on top of a tug boat. I literally LOL, albeit a stiffled one since I'm at work.

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Someone please remind me...why do we know (or think) the flight went down EAST and not WEST of Australia?

If the plane went down west of Australia it would have had to be flying in the opposite direction of its destination and one would think that someone on the plane would notice that the sun was in the wrong place during the flight.