Thank you vry much Wed, and I do think there is something to all the protection she was wearing. Obviously it wasn't just for a drop onto a simple island. She must have through some sort of...

Anytime Lost Research is my life... LOL

That is kinda sad isn't it... hehehe

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Please don't give up, Des. Because all we really need to survive is one person who truly loves us. And you have her. I will wait for
you. Always. I love you, Pen

DESMOND: I love you, Penny. I've always loved you. I'm so sorry. I love you!
PENNY: I love you too.
DESMOND: I don't know where I am, but--
PENNY: I'll find you, Des--
DESMOND: --I promise--
PENNY: --no matter what--
DESMOND: --I'll come back to you--
PENNY: --I won't give up--
BOTH: I promise. I love you.

But I think it is important that the Elizabeth was messed up, but not unrepairable, like the computerized, electronic planes and helicopters! And one guy (Kelvin Inman) was going to be able to repair it. I think Inman had said it would be ready in about a week. And something caused Henry Gale's balloon to crash, too! So does coming to the island create more of a problem for electronically controlled (my VERY scientific terminology) machines, than manually conrolled transports? And, CableRunner, if you have to be strapped in for that ghastly last leg of the journey - who's driving? Or is it just a free-fall, straight in? (because i think the island in in a bubble, but not on the surface of the earth - think of a pocket extending either into the earth, or out from the earth, connected by a small conduit - a snow globe of a universe.)

*Ephiphany!* Ben Linus originally claimed to be Henry Gale, which turned out to be false. Wonder if he's not really Ben Linus either?

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`Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!'

-- Alice, from “Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland”

Also weather was a part of Desmond's shipwreak. We saw clear skies for Flight 815's crash.(which Desmond thinks he caused and I believe he is right.) Maybe weather was a big factor with Gale's balloon crash too and/or the Black Rock's wreak. But then again it seemed like a pretty nice night, weather wise, when the helicopter came tumbling out of the sky. So yeah gotta have something to do with whatever Ethan meant by last leg gets rough or whatever he said.

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Doctor playing golf. Woo, boy howdy, now I've heard everything. What's next, cop eating a donut?