Why not just have a program that enters the numbers automatically every 108 minutes, with a couple of people on-site to check on it?
The guy in the filmstrip specifically said they were forbidden to have a computer program enter the numbers for them.
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which would confirm the experiment theory.
Oh, Locke. You chose wrong, didn't you? Damn.
The guy in the filmstrip specifically said they were forbidden to have a computer program enter the numbers for them.
Which make's Sail's point even more pertinent. It goes against all handling-dangerous-stuff protocol. Think of all the back-up equipment that went into NASA space craft, even back in Apollo.
Now, this is the kind of backstory I like to see.
Hurley enters the promised land.
Oh, man. Don't know why I didn't see that coming. Good job on "their" part.
I did not see that coming.
Saw it coming. Her questions were too pointed.
It just seems so OOC for Hurley to go into the Evil Number Hatch.