Had lots of responses to my question (the original post is at the bottom).
Most people emailed with a more complete summary of the episode, but a few
had some thoughts of their own:
1.) Put the numbers in phone number form, so 4 8 15 16 23 42 would be
481-516-2342.
2.) Is Jack's seat number 23? How is that definitely known?
3.) IT'S THE MONTH/DAY/YEAR/HOUR/MINUTE/SECOND/ THAT THE HATCH WAS SEALED
(Military time that is) : Military time would be April, 8, 1915 4:23 42sec
pm
4.) Could refer to latitude and longitude putting you in Africa.
5.) Might be a serial number perhaps tied in with the cable in the ocean or
a government experiment gone awry.
6.) A combination to the hatch/box that was found.
Hopefully, I summed up the ideas correctly. Having never seen the show,
it's hard to explain! Many people were impressed that the student thought
it was a code. I have discovered some alphabets with 42 letters but that
doesn't help me too much1 :-)
Original post:
A sixth grade student just popped in after school. He was watching "Lost"
with his parents last night and he said there was a coded alphabet. Kinda
ties in with a lottery. He thought the numbers refer to the particular
letter of the alphabet then those letters could possibly be used to form a
word. The numbers were 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42/
I don't watch the show at all, so I don't even know if this code would be
real or if he understood the episode. Any fans of the show able to help us
out?
I did find two references to the numbers on the tvtome.com website but they
don't "crack the code".
Hope I'm not making a fool of myself... but anything to help out. :-)
Please reply directly to me.Thanks so much!
Thanks! Laura
Laura D'Amato
Library Media Specialist
Thoreau Park Elementary
Renwood Elementary
Parma, OH
lauradama@parma.k12.oh.us
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