Granted I'm a backgammon novice, but I don't think the numbers relate to it.

I've been trying that too. Those coordinates are in the middle of South America.

Africa, not South America.

http://snipurl.com/LostCoordinates

i'm pretty sure the french woman heard the numbers, crashed on the island AND changed the broadcast 16 years ago as well. remember when the survivors first hear the distress call in french? it was determined to have started 16 years ago.

Perhaps it's:

Lat 4 8' 15"
Long 162 3' 42"

Now that is more like it:

http://snipurl.com/LostCoordinates2

maybe they actually ARE in hawaii?

His accountant mentioned that they thought he was a drug dealer and they settled with him.

Methinks that the combination of the Hummer, a lady blindfolded with a red bandana in the seat next to him and the ritzy neighborhood eluded to that.

Great episode.

It was an inside joke about the actor, who played the part of a drug dealer in 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' Someone posted that earlier in the thread.

Hurley has consistently lost money to Walt in backgammon.
Either Hurley's luck with money has changed due to the island i.e. before, he doubled his lottery money in one month or Walt has magical powers

I think this was the Temple of Doom with the short round comment and the bridge.

Did anyone notice, they opened with a shot of the hatch, instead of someone's eyeball. Could the hatch be the island's eye?

Also, they showed Hurley in Australia, but they still haven't shown him on the plane. I was expecting a flashback to the plane.

I wonder if Walt is Hurley's opposite and that's why he's immune to Hurley's bad luck auora.

I think those location coordinates that place it between AU and US sound pretty close to what it could be.

Anyone else notice the image you get when you zoom in close on the location linked above?

BINGO!
middle of the Pacific Ocean (or some little island in Hawaii).

Looks like it's in Micronesia somewhere. Funny..that's where the latest season of Survivor is. The islands in these areas saw a lot of action during the Pacific War. I'm thinking that this device, base, hatch, etc., is related to the war. Maybe it was some sort of experimental device that was to lure ships and planes into the island and cause the stranded people to become delsuional.

I'm pretty sure he can be seen on the plane in someone else's flashback. Maybe it was something to do with Kate and the marshall. I remember seeing Hurley on the plane listening to music.

ha ha... maybe the characters from LOST will run into Jeff Probst on Palau.

Nope, Hurley has never been seen on the plane in any episode.

one question I have about the numbers etched onto the "buried hatch?" is whether they are machined (as in some serial number for a piece of hardware, etc.) or hand carved. They looked kind of uneven and non-uniform, but still pretty neat for someone etching them in by hand.

It looked machine carved to me, but I could be wrong.

I think that they are somehow biblical related.

Interesting URL: http://4815162342.com/

4
- # of years Locke was in his wheelchair
- # of guns in Marshall's case
- # of aces on Boone's t-shirt
- years ago that Hurley's grandfather got his pacemaker
- years ago that Sam Toome died
- years ago that Sawyer made a birthday wish to be tackled in the jungle by a woman
- Leonard playing the game Connect Four
- Charlie shoots Ethan 4 times


8
- Claire was 8 months pregnant when they crashed
- hitman tells Jin to drive 8 kilometers
- # of people that die in Hurley's shoe factory fire
- Shannon's dad died when she was 8
- # of whiskey shots between Sawyer and Christian Shepherd
- Channel 8 on reporter's microphone that is interviewing Hurley
- Michael was writing to Walt for 8 years

15
- # of members on Danielle's research team
- # on whiskey bottle that Sawyer and Christian Shepherd drink from

16
- Danielle's transmission was looping for 16 years
- Backgammon dice
- Lottery announcer mentions it has been 16 weeks since
the last lottery winner
- Jack told the pilot that it had been 16 hours since the crash
- When Jack tells Kate his story about fear as she sews him up, the patient in the story is 16 years old.

23
- Jack's seat number was 23A
- The reward for turning Kate in is $ 23,000

42
-spaces in a game of Connect Four


* 815 *
- Flight 815
- Safety deposit box that Kate wanted
- Copier # that Charlie is working with

The number is evil. They are all dead and the number is the level of hell they are in. hatch with the number is the gateway to the next level of hell.

Man I hope not.

That happened on last week MadTV sketch about Lost.