Easter bunny!
I'll admit that I haven't actually watched the ep properly yet, hence why I'll wait til later today before I post more eggs, but I couldn't resist searching "The Looking Glass" on Lostpedia first.
Check it out, a bunny station! Is there some pop culture reference I'm missing here? Why a rabbit? See the brushed up Lostpedia version too, thanks to the graphics guys for that one. And is it a production error that its called "hatch" - isn't that a castaway name for the stations, I didn't think DHARMA also referred to them like that.
And those two mystery women, named Greta and Bonnie by the way, thanks once again to ABC's press release giving more than its share.
There was also a really weird equation on those documents. If any of you are mathematical experts, drop us a line. Apologies for the blurryness:
UPDATE! - Well check this link out, bottom of page 30 (by the way it takes a lil time to load):
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/engineering/hydraulics/hydrology/hec25.pdf
Well done to Frenkmelk there for that one. The equation has also been broken down:
Ht(t) = Astronomical tide at time t (ft, m)
a = Tidal amplitude (ft, m)
t = Time (hr)
T = Tidal period (hr)
Z = Vertical offset or datum adjustment (ft, m)
Looks like its all to do with the tides and such, interesting stuff!
21 comments:
The Looking Glass Station is a reference to "Alice through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll, and I think it would be and obvious conclusion to say the rabbit is in fact a reference to the White Rabbit in "Alice in Wonderland".
Awesome grab on the blueprints, by the way!
Alice in wonderland link maybe ? I think the follow up may have been Through the Looking Glass
Im sure there was a giant white rabbit in it all somewhere
Pretty sure the white rabbit is an 'Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass' reference
Rabbit logo + Looking Glass Station: "Through the Looking Glass," Alice in Wonderland, talking rabbit?
Alice in Wonderland. Following the rabbit through the hole....
It's the Alice in Wonderland hare... you know, "Through the Looking Glass."
Another children's book reference, keeping in the children theme too.
I think it's a bunny due to the reference to Lewis Carroll and his not sequel to Alice in Wonderland Entitled Through the Looking Glass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll
Has info about the author.
Not sure about why they called that one a Hatch. I don't recall any other Station referred to as a hatch....
"The Looking Glass" is a reference to the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.
This might be a let down, but the H2 and T2 are variables used in gauging water levels (H2) at certain times (T2) - the kind of thing that everyone likes to keep in mind when building a station underwater.
The equations (which are tidal/wave equations) can indicate 2 things. The first and most likely indicates the time of day in which the sub has a window to dock. The second could be that the station it self can control the current based on parameters put into those equations.
I don't get the Disney classic reference-Humming what song?
Nick, it's obviously a Lewis Carroll reference. Now if only we could get a Jabberwock station :-)
One other possibility I've come up with for tidal prediction functions on the schematic would be for fluctuating the pressure in the station to maintain an even water level in the moon pool.
As tide comes in the water pressure would increase forcing water UP into the moon pool, by increasing/decreasing the air pressure inside the station, they could maintain an even water level.
This can be demonstrated by holding a glass upside down and then pulling it underwater. as you go deeper, the water level inside the glass will rise as the air is compressed by the higher water pressure.
Queen geek - "Darling its better down where its wetter... UNDER THE SEA!"
You never seen the lil mermaid haha?
Well, the next episode is called "Through the Looking Glass", so... yeah.
Definitely a reference to Alice with the rabbit and "looking glass"--remember, Alice falls into the rabbit hole and acid trip begins...Is John Locke really dead?
Full text of "through the Looking Glass"
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext91/lglass18h.htm
completely on a tangent, but anyone think the bunny looks a bit like a Matt Groening bunny from his "Life in Hell" comics?
To many numbers too hard.
The equations and the graph in the bottom-right corner seem to have been directly copied from the document you refer to.
In particular, I think they haven't changed a bit of that graph, which you find in page 34 of that document.
Then we're talking about finding the island in Virginia rather than in the middle of the ocean ;)
This show seems to have a lot of references to Alice and Wonderland... there was an episode in Season One called White Rabbit, referring to Jack seeing his supposedley deceased father. I think that Jacob can take the form of those who are dead, but only few can hear him (Locke, Ben).
So by Jack chasing his father, he was chasing a figurative white rabbit. When Young Ben was trying to get to his mother, he chased an actual white rabbit.
Interesting...
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