[D-Roc]

We know that depending upon the 'bearing' that you enter the island on, it will either take you ahead or behind normal island time. That is, you will end up in the future or in the past relative to the time-line you were on before you entered/left the island.

Take doctor Ray (season 4) for example. At one point, he was alive and well on the ship..yet he ended up dead on the beach with his thoat slit - this was 'before' Keamy had killed him back on the freighter. This tells us that the islands time is different from that of the outside world..and that if you enter/exit the island on any bearing other than the 'safe' 325 (or is it 305, I forget?) then you will be one a different plain of time than you were before.

Faraday puts this down to "perspective". I agree with him.

Anyway, my point relates to the Dharma food drops. We've all wondered how and why they were still going on post Dharma purge. The last food drop that we know of happened in season 2.

Could the food-drop pallet that we saw land on the island in season 2 actually have been dropped in the past (say, 1980's) but just didn't arrive on the island until November 2004? Did it enter the island on such a bearing, that it didn't arrive on the island (from island perspective) until recently? Are there more food pallets currently travelling through other 'bearings'..

Just a suggestion..i'll hope to add more to this one day.