> On Feb 7, 10:35�pm, ark lost fan <ronbreed...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Did anyone else think he was firing up a Dust Buster?
>
> Yes. I think it was done for a very specific reason:
>
> Miles Straume = Maelstrom
>
> maelstrom
> 1 : a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a
> given radius
>
> whirlpool
> 1. A rapidly rotating current of water; a vortex.
> 2.
> a. Turmoil; whirl.
> b. A magnetic, impelling force into which one may be pulled.
>
> A rapidly rotating current of water or other liquid that sucks
> everything near it toward its center.
>
> vortex
> 1: something that resembles a whirlpool
> 2 a: a mass of fluid (as a liquid) with a whirling or circular motion
> that tends to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle and
> to draw toward this cavity or vacuum bodies subject to its action
> ________________________________
>
> Entering a maelstrom is like getting sucked into a pneumatic
> tube...like the one in the Pearl station.
>
> I think the island is inside, or at one end, of a maelstrom /
> whirlpool / vortex. It occurred to me during tonight's episode that
> rain on the island may be connected with the action of this whirlpool.