If the professor on Giligan's Island can make a radio out of coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?
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That is a good question.  Hey how do all those headhunters get on the island?  So many visitors on that deserted island, yet no one was able to ever get back.  Also, Gilligan loved those pies....were they coconut or bannana cream pies?  Where did they get all the ingredients outside of the fruit?  I also loved the fact that they had enough equipment to make a radio, but nothing to make contact to the outside world.  And what about all of that furniture they made out of bamboo?  These guys had more wicker than Ethan Allen!  And when they ate, where did they get all these dishes from? Gotta love this show!
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My guess is that the whole island is on a time loop, like in Donnie Darko. The guy in the boat is the guy from the hatch coming back. When he returns to the island his memory will be gone, he will believe he is still on his round the world trip. The button will not be pressed causing an electromagnetic surge, thus causing a plane crash. The same plane crash that brought them to the island. And the whole process will repeat. But that's just a theory.\n\nEither way it better be good, I was really dissapointed when the previews for the last episode kept on saying 'everything will be releaved' and showing all of their faces really shocked, and then when it gets to the actual episode ... it's a boat. ... like: wow. Not. \n\nI just can't see myself watching another 3/4 episodes of this show.
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I guess because the paddle has holes in it.
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Location of the island\nIn episode 3.28, titled "The Pigeon", the note the castaways pin on pigeon's leg says the island is located approximately 300 miles southeast of Hawaii. This general location is referred to in various episodes. \nIn episode 1.18, entitled "X Marks the Spot", viewers were informed that the Pentagon had decided to test a new warhead just above the equator at 140 degrees latitude and 10 degrees longitude. This is actually one of the series' bigger goofs, as latitude is measured north and south of the equator to the poles and only ranges from 0 to 90 degrees. If coordinates were simply reversed — 140 degrees longitude and 10 degrees north latitude, this would place the island approximately 1200 miles southeast of Hawaii. \nA common question is how the castaways, presumably the Professor in particular, were able to determine their location, given that the island itself was supposedly not on any of the Skipper's nautical charts. It is a simple thing to determine one's latitude simply by measuring the angle of the North Star, Polaris, above the horizon at night. Determining longitude is considerably more difficult. They would need to measure the difference between the time of "noon" at their location, and "noon" of some known position, presumably Honolulu. However, if they are indeed only 300 miles to the southeast of Hawaii, the time difference between their "noon" and Honolulu's "noon" would only be about 12 minutes. Such a small differential would be extremely difficult to measure by observation alone, but not necessarily impossible.\n\n[edit]\nA more realistic location of the island\nPerhaps a more interesting question is to ask "where could Gilligan's Island actually be" ? (What follows is an exercise in logic, and it should be noted that the conclusions are completely contrary to assumptions in the show itself. It is merely presented as "food for afterthought".)\n\nThe initial location, 300 miles from Hawaii, is based on the premise that they awoke the next morning shipwrecked on the island. Assuming they left in the afternoon and awoke mid-morning that would be about 20 hours time elapsed. At a cruising speed of 15 knots, they would end up about 300 miles from home. However..........\n\nGiven :\n\nThey set out from Honolulu for a 3 hour tour, and that the weather was good where and when they left. Honolulu is on the Southwest corner of the island of Oahu. They would therefore most likely be cruising on the southwest side of Oahu. \nIt should be safe to assume that the cruise would plan to stay within sight of shore at all times. A 3-hour tour would take them perhaps 15-20 miles out of the harbor, and then back. This assumes a cruising speed of approximately 10-15 knots, which is a reasonable pleasure cruising rate. This is not enough time to leave the waters around Oahu and get to, or near, any other island. Since there is nothing to see away from shore, they must have planned to view Honolulu from the ocean. \nThe storm must have approached from the southwest. Tropical depressions, storms, and hurricanes (called typhoons in the Pacific) are cyclonic storms. That is to say that they spin around a central area (eye). The rotation in the northern hemisphere is counter-clockwise. If the storm approached from any other direction, it would have already been stormy on Oahu before they left. \nTropical storms generally travel from southeast towards the northwest. They generally move at about 5-10 knots While cyclonic storms have been known to deviate from this generality for short periods of time, it is virtually unheard of for one to actually travel 300 miles in the opposite direction of normal travel. To cover that distance would require close to two full days. \nUsing these assumptions, they would have likely been drawn into the storm at about the Two O'clock position in the cyclonic storm. Since th
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technically not possible!!
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stick of dynamite.\n\nOk, I was just being silly, the other two ideas are good.\nA third way might be to create a whirlpool in the water.  I guess you could consider that a hole as well.
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Engineers see real world problems and come up with effective and cost-efficient solutions that would benefit society. I'm an engineer (or at least have a degree) and my friends and I used to come up with solutions for small problems that used to bug us right in the faculty! I never would have been able to do that before. Plus, you have the skills to do it yourself, instead of hiring and paying someone else to do it.
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I like questions like this. The Professor was chasing the women, and they weren't real worried about leaving. My question is: Why wasn't there any little Professors or Gilligans with those two hot babes?
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The island "brought" the plane there.  No explanation has ever been given (although I believe that it's just a figment of the survivors imagination created by the island for purposes that we yet, do not know).\n\nHave a lovely rest of the day.
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Sure. They can raise a sunken boat by putting inflatables inside the hull and blow in air. That's just like a big balloon.
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Send her fishing.......make sure there is a hole in your boat first....call Scott Peterson...he may help you?
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He had SOMETHING under his coat.  I am thinking it was a wireless radio transciever.  I too wondered WTF it was.  He had to be cheating in the debates.  There is no way with his cocaine addled dry drunk brain, he could function with Karen Hughs telling him what to say from the wings.
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hey Dexter, your lab would be really boring without Deedee?don't you think?\nI'm sorry we don't meet your levels of intellectual brouhaha
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You really want to know? Fine here are the answers, but I don't think you will like them.....\n\nHow come on the episode where Sandy dared the sea creatures to go on land how come Mr. Krabs got scared even though crabs are able too go on land? \n\n** Because even though Mr Krabs is a crab, he has never been on land. Therefore that is the reason why he got scared.\n\nHow come there is a lagoon under the ocean? \n\n** "Goo Lagoon" is basically once you think about it, oil.\n\n\nWhy is Spongebob and Patick not able too swim even though they live in the ocean? \n\n** An actual sponge and an actual starfish do NOT swim in the ocean. They do not have fins, please consult your encyclopedia or the discovery channel.\n\n\nHow did Sandy actually build the dome and put all the birds inside, the birds where shown on the episode where Spongebob needed water? \n\n** Because on a later episode, it was revealed that Sandy has a Rocket Ship that she built, that she was able to transport all the material from land to water. \n\nWhy is Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy so short? \n\n** Because it is also natural that when a person gets older their height seems to decrease with age. Please note that Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy do live in a retirement home, and have retired from their "Super" jobs.\n\nNOW I hear people asking, is this woman insane?! Yes, I have a 6 yr old daughter, who loves Spongebob. So therefore as a parent it is my responsibility to know how, what, who, when, where and why.
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i dont no, how did u no that the island on lost is a spaceship?
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Ahh an inventor that wants to become rich... Definatley a time machine so I could go back and fix my mistakes, or a "beam me up scotty teleporter". That most probabley wont help you, but thats what I think would be cool. Heidi
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It's blocked for a reason!\n\n~Your Teacher