We know now that the Island is always moving. The freighter must have moved with the Island, or it wouldn't have been able to keep up. This explains the cryptic response "If you say so" to "we haven't moved in 2 weeks". The Island must have its own gravity, or at least some sort of radius that moves with it, or the Freighter and Jin wouldn't have moved with it. Faraday has the freighter shoot a rocket to the Island. However, as soon as the rocket is in the air, the Island has already begun to move away from it!
Imagine you are riding in the passenger seat of a car. You drop a lit bottle rocket out the window. Before it gets up to full speed, it has already fallen behind the car. It will eventually catch up to the car, but it will take a little while.
This is what happened to Faraday's rocket. As soon as the freighter launched it, it fell behind the Island (like the bottle rocket out the window). It eventually caught up to the Island, but it took an extra 20 or so minutes. Considering that it was a rocket, that means the Island is moving pretty fast.
Now think about the 06. They got in the helicopter and took off from the freighter. Once they hit a certain height, they are out of range of the Island's "radius", and they begin to fall behind the Island. They have begun to catch up to but are not in the radius of it it when it disappears. This is how Jin was inside the radius and they were outside the radius even though they flew from the freighter towards the Island! Theory by ivey_driveshaft
Imagine you are riding in the passenger seat of a car. You drop a lit bottle rocket out the window. Before it gets up to full speed, it has already fallen behind the car. It will eventually catch up to the car, but it will take a little while.
This is what happened to Faraday's rocket. As soon as the freighter launched it, it fell behind the Island (like the bottle rocket out the window). It eventually caught up to the Island, but it took an extra 20 or so minutes. Considering that it was a rocket, that means the Island is moving pretty fast.
Now think about the 06. They got in the helicopter and took off from the freighter. Once they hit a certain height, they are out of range of the Island's "radius", and they begin to fall behind the Island. They have begun to catch up to but are not in the radius of it it when it disappears. This is how Jin was inside the radius and they were outside the radius even though they flew from the freighter towards the Island! Theory by ivey_driveshaft
