It would likely take two of them, and Aussie and someone from the States. Otherwise, they might just assume that they're in the wrong hemisphere.

Except that, unless they are on a different planet altogether, they'd have to be in one hemisphere or the other. Constellations don't chage when you move east-west. They only change when you move north-south.

In order to look at the constellations and discover that they're someplace completely impossible (like a different ocean), they'd need a sextant and an ephemerus.

Sextant and Ephemerus

Now there's a band name!

Right, Sean. What I'm saying is, a person with an astronomy hobby from the States might not be able to make sense of the constellations and think they were in the Southern Hemisphere, while and Aussie would think they were in the Northern. Only by combining their knowledge would they get to "Hey, there's something really not right here"

Following continuity from last season, aren't the castaways supposed to be experiencing the monsoon season soonish? There was a reason why Michael & friends had to set out on the raft when they did. The ocean should be pretty rought right now, no? There should be high winds.

If we are talking about magic/theoretical portals or powers, maybe they are more effective at different points through the earth, or even trying to avoid the molton core...

You don't have to cut a cake neatly in two. A straight line across a circle (or through a globe) need not be a perfect opposite point.

ren't the castaways supposed to be experiencing the monsoon season soonish?

They could do a montage...

But if they aren't actually in the Pacific Ocean, then that could explain why they aren't experiencing the monsoons.

It's the Langoliers, man. Everything comes back to Stephen King.

Only by combining their knowledge would they get to "Hey, there's something really not right here"

Right. Now I get it.

Hee--the Chicago Tribune takes on the subject of Hurley's weight loss (or lack thereof). They talk to a nutritionist, as well as one of the show-runners (Carlton Cuse), who says:

Hurley's inability to lose any significant weight, like many other things on the island, is shrouded in mystery. That mystery, however, will be definitively solved during February sweeps ... well, as definitively as anything ever gets solved on 'Lost,' anyway.

Do the buffistas have a log in for the Chicago Tribune? I tried buffistas/foamy, but I think it wants and email