WiscBadger95 wrote:
I was thinking of some sort of instantaneous (or at least quicker than a sub or even an airplane) movement between Point A and Point B, something like that horrid Hayden Christensen movie.
mayhaps the magic box?
eta: you know, I just thought of this (and who knows, maybe it has been speculated already): What if the sub is just a ruse? They don't actually use the sub to go back and forth, they just tell that to people they bring to the island? They knocked Juliet out, then next thing she knows she is on the sub at the island. They could knock a person out, bring them to the island via "The Magic Box", put them into the sub and voila, they think they got there by sub. Do we know if Tom met Michael in NY after Locke blew up the sub?
This also made me think of the short story, The Jaunt, by Stephen King. It is about teleportation. Anyone being teleported has to be knocked out or they go crazy. Kinda like those who tried to go to the island from the freighter; Minkowski, that chick that jumped off the boat - and Desmond. Here is a plot summary (I left out the ending in case anyone who hasn't read it decides they want to. It's one of my favorite King stories)
The Jaunt - wikipedia
"The Jaunt" is a short story by Stephen King first published in The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981, and collected in the 1985 anthology Skeleton Crew. It belongs primarily to the genre of science fiction rather than King's customary horror, but is quite characteristic of King in probing deeply the minds of its characters when they are placed in incredible circumstances. The story takes place in the near-future where the technology for teleportation, referred to as "Jaunting", is commonplace, allowing for instantaneous transportation across enormous distances, even to other planets in the solar system.
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As a family prepares to be "Jaunted" to Mars, the father entertains his two children by recounting the tale of this crude form of teleportation's curious discovery and history. He explains how the scientist who serendipitously discovered it found out early on that it had a disturbing, inexplicable effect on the mice he "sent through"--concluding that they could only survive the "Jaunt effect" while unconscious. That, the father explains, is why all people must breathe in a special anaesthetic gas before using the Jaunt.
The father spares his children the gruesome semi-apocryphal account of the only human ever known to be Jaunted awake, a condemned murderer offered a full pardon for agreeing to the experiment. The man "came through" and immediately suffered a massive heart attack, living just long enough to utter a single cryptic phrase:
We learn that about thirty people have been jaunted while conscious and that they either died instantly, or went insane. One person even used the portal to send his wife into a horrific kind of limbo, stuck between two jaunt portals. After he finishes his little story, the family is subjected to the sleeping gas and Jaunted to Mars. [snip]It's eternity in there...
