No, I'm not saying that they aren't making references to the element... That could be quite the case. It's far fetched to claim that the H = 8, O = 15 is intentional, too. While the references could totally be there for Ho, it's stupid to read too far into it by finding out something that just happens to fit into a lost trend like "omg! if you count from the top left corner of the periodic table and skip every third element, you wind up with 23 when you stop at Ho!"The Brigadier wrote:Brad, this is different than that dumb movie. This is most likely the producers having fun throwing in funny little clues that the Island's magnetic anomalies are going to be revealed to be associated with Holmium. I don't think it's a stretch, either. There are at least 3 references to HO that could not have ended up in one episode by accident.bradisntclever wrote:Wow, this is quite the stretch. Just like the whole H = 8, O = 15. The last time people started playing mind games like this, a really crappy movie came out with Jim Carrey at the helm.The Brigadier wrote: And if you add up the digits of the atomic weight of Holmium-- 164.930-- you get 23. Ha, they missed that one.
I do like the first few mentions the article gives, but the 815 thing just made me roll my eyes. Also, don't read too far into atomic mass. In one of my textbooks, they list the mass as 164.93031. Precision is overrated.
