LOST Tarot cards...ummm...awesome.

Thanks TM for sending!
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Quantum Kissing...or...Every dude wants a crazy bitch

So...Libby's back. This was a nice episode, it's good to see Hurley get some. I'm not going to bother to mention the bucket o' chicken...we've all had those days...I wont lie I'm intrigued by the commercials for the KFC Double Down...but I'm not going to eat one...even if I do get stood up. I'm just mega-confused as to why a gabillionaire like Hurley is single...instead of chicken he could buy a bucket o' woman, right? Whatever, I was pleased to see him and Libby fulfill their destiny and pleased for the crazy bitches of the world...proving my long held notion that dudes DO in fact dig psycho women. The quantum kiss on the beach was good, Saggi got very excited at that moment.

Genius moment of the week goes to P-Rod who literally one second before Ilana got blown up said "I can't wait for that bitch to die!" Hurley got the bag of Jacob ash...maybe that's what's preventing all the air traffic in Europe?

Michael made his return to apologize for killing Libby and tell us that the whispers were the dead people on the island. 'Kay. Goodbye character that we don't really care about anymore...thanks for checking in and clearing up a minor mystery.

Richard, Ben and Miles took off for the plane to try and blow it up and

Hurley convinced everyone else to go to Flocke's camp after the dynamite incident.

At camp Flocke, Sawyer and Kate were pissed and wanted to go find Jin. Sayid came back with Desmond and Flocke dragged him out to the jungle where they had the convo about fear...Desmond doesn't have any...Flocke seems scared of Desmond...hence the flinging of Desmond into the well. Don't worry he's not Deadsmond.

Zombie Sayid is sooooo great...can I just say that?

Oh and did you see Kate's face light up when Jack walked in with his Survivor tiki torch? That's the face I made too...because I love him so much...and I think our babies would be attractive.

The biggest scream of the night was obviously the last scene where in the alternate timeline Desmond ploughs into Locke in his wheelchair...maybe Flocke/Smocke has already gotten off the island in this timeline and Desmond has to kill him? Don't know.

We were in the tiny greek's hatch this week "The Clown Car" and there were a ton of dumplings...and more wine than anybody could drink...we're going back next week to finish it off.

God, I love Tuesdays!

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Desmond Hume and the Caduceus Coil

Poor Desmond. They used him as a lab rat, and no one likes a rat.

While I don't condone the use of human test subjects, there's actually some mind-blowing science stuff going on here. I for one friggin' love science stuff.

Let me break it down for you...

This week's episode featured a strange and remarkable device. It was basically two huge copper coils facing each other. Now it can be easily deduced that we are dealing with large amounts of electromagnetic energy. Why? Because the whole damn thing was made of wood (no metal), even the chair they made Des sit on. Also, remember they asked him if he had any metal on him like loose change (to which he had a delightfully quippy response). Another bit of evidence was from the screen that geo-physicist (who is the poor man's Tina Fey) was looking at: the bottom of the display were the letters "EMF" which clearly stand for ElectroMagnetic Field. As we know, there has been A LOT of electromagnetic activity on the island and Des already survived a huge dose of EM energy when the hatch blew.

So what in science's name is going on here?

Have you ever heard of a scientist by the name of Nikola Tesla? Probably not... they don't talk about him in school and there are a million conspiracy theories about why that is so... regardless, the guy was a freakin' genius. His theories were centuries ahead of his time. He is best known for his work with electromagnetism (!). One of his major projects was the wireless distribution of electricity. Imagine all your household devices were powered by this technology... no unsightly extension cords! He designed the Tesla Coil to do exactly that... and, come to think of it... TC's look very much like the pylons used to keep the MIB out... interesting. Wireless power technology is just now being developed (I actually have a version of this tech, a "power mat" that charges my phone and other such devices wirelessly, and guess what- there's magnets in it) and Tesla invented his coil in 1891! Some of his lesser known experiments, however, involved time-travel and other such radical science. There is a "story" (unsubstantiated of course) about Tesla being hit with a huge electromagnetic charge and found himself outside of his time frame reference, being able to see the immediate past, present, and future all at once. His assistant turned off the machine right away, seeing that Tesla had been hit by the charge, and Tesla returned to his time frame.

Now on to the Caduceus Coil, which I believe is the large copper coils we saw (or at least some version of it). Apparently, by running enough juice through the coil, you can transmit electromagnetic waves at super-luminal velocities (read: faster than light). According to Einstein's theories, when EM waves are pushed faster than light, you move backward in time!

So here's what I think happened...

Desmond was shot back through time, but not just any time- he got shot back into a parallel past. We've seen the whole parallel time line happening, in the time-line where the island was sunk into the ocean. So how is it that Desmond went back in time into a universe that is parallel to his own? Surprise: I have an answer...

First of all, time travel is confusing as hell, isn't it? When you start getting into time paradoxes it makes your brain explode. Don't worry the (multi)universe actually protects itself from these paradoxes. Thanks universe! Scientists have theorized that you cannot travel back in time in your own universe, but that when you do, you enter a parallel universe. This way you can't negate your existence by traveling back in time and killing your grandfather (why would you do that anyway, you jerk!). This opens the door on the multiple universe theory, which basically says that there are an infinite number of parallel exisitences, so that anything that can happen will happen.

See this is where those jerks who detonated the bomb on the hatch dig site went wrong. They obviously had no understanding of how time works. They thought that they could change their own universe with their actions in the past. Foolish hot people! Did you not know that you WERE ALREADY IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE AND ANY ACTION YOU TOOK WOULD NOT AFFECT THE UNIVERSE YOU CAME FROM!??? Sagittarius is amused by your naivete.

So.....

Desmond, therefore, has traveled back in time to a parallel universe created by the detonation of the nuclear bomb on the island. BAM. How do we know he went back and not just sideways? Well, in the parallel universe, we see all their lives just after flight 815 lands (instead of crashing on the island) and in the original universe we see the time loooooooong after the plane crashes.

Now I would please ask you all for your theories about the "time-witch" (thanks P Rod). How the hell does Eloise know what's going on with Des???? That is some sinister shit right there.

Let me know what you think, because it baffles me.

Well sorry to go all Faraday on you there, but I got really excited when science came back to Lost. Oh and for another interesting "parallel" look up "Faraday's law of induction" and see how it relates to Tesla and the Caduceus Coil.

Ciao for now... until next week!

-Sagittarius

Desmond's A Celtic Supporter...And So Can You!

Yay!!!! Desmond! I am relaxing my Italian soccer player hair rule for this week only in honor of Desmond...but ONLY because he's scottish....AND more importantly a supporter of the greatest football team the world has ever known Celtic F.C. ...'Mon the Hoops!
...I think Saggi is going to do a real post about this episode...but let it be known that this was the BEST EPISODE EVER!!!! Absolutely fucking amazing...I'm going to have to watch it again...because I was embarrassingly drunk...I apologize to the Oceanic 7 for the excessive number of "I love you's" that were said...i mean all of them.

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