Post by Edith S. Baker on May 30, 2007 21:10:44 GMT -4
A new theory is beginning to arise concerning the identity of the mysterious Mr. or Mrs. Lantham/Latham. A poster at the pearl did some pretty inventive detective work and confirmed that the casket was far too small for an adult. To see their study visit this link.
I will say in challenging their reading that i held my own hand down to see what my relaxed span was and my span was nearly 7 inches. I'm a mere 5'5" (Yeah, I'm short... get over it) and Matthew Fox is 6'2", I'm guessing his span could be as wide as 8" easily, which would make the casket around 7'4" wide. But I wasn't going to just leave it to the double blind, so I tried another method to see if I came anywhere near their measurements.
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I was very conservative with this operation. Matthew Fox is 6'2, I took as upright a picture of Fox as I could find, cropped at the feet a bit to allow for around an inch of heel, and tried to determine where the top of the casket lines up with Matthew's body as he is standing next to it. You can tell it is somewhere around the middle of his abdomen, which would be the four foot mark, but I chose to aim low and went with his belt line, which according to my Fox-o-meter is about 3.5 feet. So using that as the distance from the floor to the top of the casket, I developed a measuring stick and ran it along the edge of the coffin. Allowing for even a bit of perspective error, the coffin comes in at around five feet from tip to tip.
If we go with the mid-riff, we're still looking at six feet max and with liner, you have an effective carcass storage area of somewhere around 5'8.
Looking at the height of some of the suspects: Michael Emerson is 5'8" making Ben a very good possibility going with the max measurements. Harold Perrineau is 5'10, which would be pushing it with either estimate.
Again, though, the LOST producers, prop masters, writers, editors, etc, are going to make mistakes which we are not intended to catch. So does work like this really get us closer to the truth, or just prove how insanely obsessed we are with the most minute details?
Source: www.thetailsection.com/
I will say in challenging their reading that i held my own hand down to see what my relaxed span was and my span was nearly 7 inches. I'm a mere 5'5" (Yeah, I'm short... get over it) and Matthew Fox is 6'2", I'm guessing his span could be as wide as 8" easily, which would make the casket around 7'4" wide. But I wasn't going to just leave it to the double blind, so I tried another method to see if I came anywhere near their measurements.
]Click here to view the larger size
I was very conservative with this operation. Matthew Fox is 6'2, I took as upright a picture of Fox as I could find, cropped at the feet a bit to allow for around an inch of heel, and tried to determine where the top of the casket lines up with Matthew's body as he is standing next to it. You can tell it is somewhere around the middle of his abdomen, which would be the four foot mark, but I chose to aim low and went with his belt line, which according to my Fox-o-meter is about 3.5 feet. So using that as the distance from the floor to the top of the casket, I developed a measuring stick and ran it along the edge of the coffin. Allowing for even a bit of perspective error, the coffin comes in at around five feet from tip to tip.
If we go with the mid-riff, we're still looking at six feet max and with liner, you have an effective carcass storage area of somewhere around 5'8.
Looking at the height of some of the suspects: Michael Emerson is 5'8" making Ben a very good possibility going with the max measurements. Harold Perrineau is 5'10, which would be pushing it with either estimate.
Again, though, the LOST producers, prop masters, writers, editors, etc, are going to make mistakes which we are not intended to catch. So does work like this really get us closer to the truth, or just prove how insanely obsessed we are with the most minute details?
Source: www.thetailsection.com/
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