once opening the hatch had not immediately irradiated them
Hold on just a cotton pickin minute. Sayid may not be a nuclear physicist, but he has to know that radiation is not, like, a colorful death ray. It's still nicely possible come down with severe-to-fatal radiation poisoning without knowing it till it's too late. I mean, in this day and age, to do it you'd have to sneak into Three Mile Island
without knowing
what Three Mile Island does/did, but... that's exactly what they seem to be doing.
radiation is not, like, a colorful death ray.
Clearly someone hasn't been watching enough television.
Hell, on Lost it might have sparkles and turn you into the Amazing Collossal Castaway.
Well, if Desmond was down there for three years and didn't come down with radiation sickness, it is most likely that there isn't a terribly immediate risk.
Me, I'd be wondering what killed Kelvin, because cancer/leukemia would be the longer-term consequence of higher-than-normal radiation.
You'd think that Jack would maybe have checked one of those bottles of medication Desmond had been injecting into himself to see just what kind of drug they are.
Morphine? Sugar water? Hallucenogenic horse tranquilizer? Anti-radiation sickness drug?
It might have just the teensiest bit of relevance to their continued stay in the hatch, you know?
Was Jack aware that Desmond had eben injecting himself? I don't recall if Jack ever saw him do it.
Also, did anyone else notice that in Hurley's dream, the Chicken Guy was blinking his eyes in time with the beeping?
Was Jack aware that Desmond had eben injecting himself? I don't recall if Jack ever saw him do it.
He did see Desmond shovel a bunch of the vials into his bag before running out, didn't he? He probably would have recognized them as drug vials.
Then the question becomes, did Desmond leave any behind for examination?
I didn't think he took them all.
I'm having a hard time buying that they don't know where Desmond went. Seems like a guy running hell-bent for anywhere like that is so going to leave a trail Locke (or *anyone* can follow. Maybe Locke didn't try to track him, because pushing the button is his destiny?
radiation is not, like, a colorful death ray.
Clearly someone hasn't been watching enough television.
Well, but remember -- when Kate's rope broke and she fell down the rest of the way in the hatch, that blinding beam of light came out. Clearly, it was a Radiation Death Ray.
