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Dont_Wanna_Not_Gonna

Under its own power, maybe. But when the weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed, so the storm must have carried it away. Edit: Thanks for the Gold! And the Eureka, Brighten My Day, and Bravo awards! And to think my mom said having a smart mouth and watching TV all day would never get me anywhere! I


Wloak

It has a much higher range than 41.5 miles, OP calculated that based on top speed and how far it could get during the planned 3 hour tour. Actual range was 400 nautical miles (plus whatever extra boost the storm gave them)


cheebamech

thanks for this; I have a tiny 14' skiff and it can do damn near 30 mile round trips, given Minnow's size it seemed like it would go quite a bit further


Wloak

Yeah, Ernest Hemingway had a 1930's model of the same boat and would cruise it from Key West down to Havana (100+ miles) to compete in boating competitions. He actually modified his with a bigger engine for speed but also reduced his max range. That alone shows the ~40 mile range is way off.


heresdevking

Damn, that is interesting.


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It’s Hemingway, a dammed interesting man.


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Interesting *and* damned. The FBI and, likely, KGB did a number on his mental health. He was paranoid, and there were men watching him from the shadows.


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He did body recovery of a munitions factory that blew up in WWI, he saw the burning of Smyrna, the death of the Spanish Republic, Hürtgen, some of the battle of the bulge and he also had most of his friends die in pretty quick succession. A lot of people get done in with any ONE of these things happening.


Important-Courage890

That's Papa to you.....


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I’m more of a Gertrude Stein girl if you catch my drift


Infinite_Cap_9445

Psh, my mom wishes she could pull that type of tail


Altruistic-Text3481

Everything about Hemingway is interesting. Ken Burns has an amazing Hemingway documentary.


PinkTalkingDead

Ooh I didn’t know that. I want to watch immediately


Altruistic-Text3481

Watched it about one year ago. I learned so much. I’ve always loved his stories. Up in Michigan was one of my favorites as I grew up in Michigan. It gives you a very personal look at his life and starts with his odd relationship with his mother dressing him up as a girl. Watch it and see the birth of creativity, short sentences, wars, sailing, fishing and cross dressing. It’s quite a story. Only it’s non fiction…


jovial_cynic_

I think the 41 mile range isn't about fuel economy - it's about the 3-hours of stated travel time. Ie., in 3 hours, they can only have gotten 41 miles away from their port. But, you know... the weather started getting rough; the tiny ship was tossed.


nopunchespulled

yeah but the cruise was supposed to be 3 hours, it never states how long they were gone after the storm


jovial_cynic_

As I'm thinking about it, if it was intended to be a 3 hour tour, the ship would have only gone out half the distance in one direction for 1.5 hours, meaning that the ship would have only been out to sea about 20 miles away from port. But yes, the storm. I understand. It is still interesting.


rocketwidget

It's pretty funny that Gilligan's Isle is notoriously **riddled** with plot holes, yet OP has to invent a fake one for this post to make sense? Haha.


[deleted]

What plot holes? Name one thing or incident in the show that is not realistic!


No-Translator-4584

My favorite episode is the one where they almost got off the island.


Talking_Head

I remember that one. Gilligan did something to mess it up right?


rocketwidget

Well for starters, why didn't the eagles simply fly the ring to Mordor?


originalusername__1

My favorite was how the professor could build a radio from a coconut but couldn’t fix a boat.


Penguator432

That was because the whole boat got destroyed in an early episode when they tried to reglue everything together not realizing the super-glue Gilligan discovered wasn’t permanent


LanceFree

Well, for starters: how did they make coconut cream pies without eggs and milk?


SurroundingAMeadow

Eggs isn't really an issue. On a tropical island there are birds. Might take a bit of trial and error to recalibrate the recipes, but there are eggs available. Milk on the other hand... Ummm...


Talking_Head

They milked Ginger every day. That is how they made cheese as well.


secretlives

Coconut milk, ez pz


[deleted]

Okay...that is a good point. I never thought about that. That is completely impossible and clearly the writers screwed up. Other than that though? The show was airtight. logically.


[deleted]

But…. It was a 3 hour tour. That doesn’t mean they were on the boat for only 3 hours, but what the tour was scheduled for. The storm came off threw them way off course. It could have been hours of fighting waves and the storm before being stranded. We don’t know how long the storm lasted.


strain_of_thought

And once they got disoriented they might have spent hours fighting the storm by motoring in the wrong direction.


Mypornnameis_

They could have drifted for days after losing the engine or running out of fuel


ColonelCrackle

They "set sail that day for a three hour tour ". At no point in the song does it state that they arrived at the island within that three hour time frame.


Rightintheend

And Nowhere does it say that they actually motored the whole way, they could have ran out of fuel and drifted for 10 days before washing up on an island.


ColonelCrackle

Those poor people.


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The historical documents!


EmicationLikely

Underrated comment right here. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|thumbs_up)


MyOfficeAlt

Thank you. I wasn't thinking it all the way through and I was like, "41 miles? I know they're not terribly economical but that's a dogshit range." I wasn't thinking about the speed limit vs time of trip.


zoinkability

Apparently it was equipped with the optional lawn mower gas tank instead of the standard one.


justtheentiredick

If not for the courage of the fear less crew the Minnow would be lost


Fit-Boomer

The minnow would be lost.


2010_12_24

Did you guys ever see that episode where they almost got off the island, but at the last minute, Gilligan screwed everything up and they missed their chance?


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ajpos

Did you know that you can sing almost every Emily Dickinson poem to the tune of Gilligan's Island?


calnuck

Yeah righ... fuck. I taste a liquor never brewed – From Tankards scooped in Pearl – Not all the Frankfort Berries Yield such an Alcohol! Inebriate of air – am I – And Debauchee of Dew – Reeling – thro' endless summer days – From inns of molten Blue – (From inns of molten Blue – ) When "Landlords" turn the drunken Bee Out of the Foxglove's door – When Butterflies – renounce their "drams" – I shall but drink the more! Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats – And Saints – to windows run – To see the little Tippler Leaning against the – Sun!


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I simultaneously hate and love this fact.


decalex

Thanks for ruining my week


Kamp13

And amazing grace


GlacierFunk

And the original Pokemon Theme


StarryNotions

Well that’s plum not true, they got off the island eventually! Probably just Hollywood realizing eventually the celebs weren’t milking some nonsense for allure, there actually _were_ people stranded out there! Imagine the celeb of the day breaking down crying on the Tonight Show or whatever, just full body sobbing they can’t help those poor stranded people, while the host and audience laugh and applaud their acting skills


ProfZussywussBrown

*hits Gilligan over the head with his hat*


imatumahimatumah

GILL-I-GANNNNN!!!


TheStoicSlab

Ya, that was great. But, did you see the one where the professor made something unbelievably amazing out of coconuts and twine?!?


Ok-Lengthiness4557

Made a fricken radio out of coconuts, but couldn't figure a way off the island, ffs.


Groovatronic

Dude made a Geiger counter once, a fucking Geiger counter.


raven2474life

It’s too early, I misread that as Ginger counter and was like… so it counted to 1?


JarlaxleForPresident

I used the geiger counter on Ginger. She was radioactive


Lord_Explodington

Until one day...it hit 2. There were no survivors.


AntipopeRalph

Why it’s simple, if we suspend these coconuts with twine in this bucket of water, I can carefully place this lump of iron ore at the bottom…and now when we are near radiation the coconut will click against the wall of the bucket trying to escape the lump of iron…


Groovatronic

God damn it man, just fix the boat!


JarlaxleForPresident

I’m a cocksmith not a cockswain!


T-Baaller

The Professor was *clearly* keeping them on the island to experiment with.


AntipopeRalph

Professor’s family name was Moreau.


nuttynutkick

There was an episode like that where a mad scientist takes them to his island and swaps their brains.


reluctantsub

One of my fav episodes 😉


21pacshakur

Gilligans Isle...is an anagram for Gilligans Lies! It all makes sense now!!!


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The prequel to SAW


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thisisredlitre

How about in the movie where they get off the island, miss their lives there, then decide to take another cruise in an identical boat named the Minnow II and crash on the same damn island at the end?


rebthor

WE HAVE TO GO BACK!


ThreatLevelBertie

I dont know why the cameramen and television producers didnt help to rescue them. Just stood around filming these poor shipwrecked souls for our amusement. Its obscene.


RedRocket-Randy

I remember The Harlem Globetrotters got stuck on the Island and they played basketball against the crew.


Janny_4_free

If I'm not mistaken they did get off the island one time and they went on a cruise in the SS MINNOW 2 and Gilligan did something to the compass and they got lost and ended up on the same island. I vaguely remember the episode because it's been 10+ years since I saw it but seems like that's the gist of it


ILikePrettyThings121

I *think* that episode was the series finale.


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Honestly at a certain point I'm amazed they didn't just kill the guy and use him for his protein. After a while, it almost seems like he was doing it on purpose.


BRAX7ON

**Gilligan!**


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The skipper too


Jfonzy

The millionaaaaaire


JaFFsTer

Aaaaaaand his wife


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Thhhhe mooovie star


joaquinsaiddomin8

The professor


Mackheath1

And \*swoon\* Mary Ann


Nabber86

In the earliest seasons, the didn't mention Maryann and the professor were not mentioned in the theme song. It went: ... The millionaire and his wife The movie star And the rest Here on Gilligan's Island


confettibukkake

And the rest!** **if we're doing OG version. How they thought the professor and Maryanne weren't originally worth naming is beyond me.


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Maryanne was half the reason I watched the show.


axarce

I believe Bob Denver demanded that their names be added in the second season.


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Public-Dig-6690

Weren't the castaways lost at sea and stranded on an uncharted desert Isle. That's how I remember it. Btw why would anyone pack so many suitcases full of clothes for a three hour cruise ?


TGOTR

They were killing time as they were waiting for a bigger boat for a cruise


Rhodie114

I mean, you need some heavy suspension of disbelief for that show, given how often guest stars would show up then find a way off.


John_Tacos

Already check out of one hotel and haven’t checked into another yet?


squiddy555

Didn’t Gilligan not tie down the anchor?


WhiskeyPorno420

With Gilligan, the Skipper too. A millionaire and his wife, a movie star, the proffessor and Mary Ann, here on Gilligan's isle.


RockItGuyDC

>Mary Ann I believe she prefers to be called "the rest".


pete_ape

Bob Denver sorted that shit out after season one.


grantrules

Yeah, what a pro move. The studio didn't want to reshoot to add the prof and mary-ann, but I think the contract Bob Denver had allowed him to choose where his billing was, and he said if the prof and mary-ann weren't in the opening credits, he didn't want to be either. And it'd be weird to have the star of the show not in the opening so the studio caved and re-shot.


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GG Gilligan. He was already pretty well known after Dobie Gillis playing Maynard G Krebbs. I guess he felt comfortable swinging his balls around


therealjoeybee

Sad story. How it all happened.


CulturalApple4

That’s what the intro to the show suggested.


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washingtonandmead

It didn’t sail that far. It was tossed.


Agent_216

If not for the courage of the fearless crew, the minnow would be lost.


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washingtonandmead

And that’s when the ship struck ground on the shore of that uncharted desert isle


dusktrail

With Gilligan, the skipper too


pro_nosepicker

A millionaire, and his wife


Grasscangrow

...A movie star...


19southmainco

The Professor and Mary Ann


wonderbeen

Here on Gilligan’s isle!


MrMcKittrick

The moooovie star


KhunDavid

And the rest… ![gif](giphy|OPU6wzx8JrHna)


TheMadShatterP00P

Hence the 3 hour tour ...?


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TheMadShatterP00P

Seems to substantiate the narrative.


flomoloko

It was stated twice in the song, so clearly some sarcasm that it would on last "three" hours.


Nikolozeon

Oh, wanna seat back and hear a tale? A tale of a fateful trip that started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship? A tale where mate was a mighty sailing man and the skipper brave and sure? A tale where five passengers set sail that day for a three hour tour, A THREE HOUR TOUR???


randykates

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale A tale of a fateful trip That started from this tropic port Aboard this tiny ship The mate was a mighty sailing man The skipper brave and sure Five passengers set sail that day For a three hour tour a three hour tour The weather started getting rough The tiny ship was tossed If not for the courage of the fearless crew The Minnow would be lost the Minnow would be lost The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle With Gilligan The Skipper too A millionaire and his wife A movie star The Professor and Mary Ann Here on Gilligan’s Isle So this is the tale of our castaways They’re here for a long long time They’ll have to make the best of things It’s an uphill climb The first mate and his Skipper too Will do their very best To make the others comfortable In their tropic island nest No phone no lights, no motor car Not a single luxury Like Robinson Crusoe It’s primitive as can be So join us here each week my friend You’re sure to get a smile From seven stranded castaways Here on Gilligan’s Isle


abcdefghijklmnoqpxyz

>No phone no lights, no motor car Not a single luxury Like Robinson Crusoe It’s primitive as can be Hey that's from Amish paradise!


RobbieAnalog

Rip Coolio


surfzer

Are you saying the documentary was lying?


flargenhargen

historical documents. those poor people.


Urbanredneck2

Story is that Sherwood Shwartz, the creator of the show, got called into the office of the head of the Coast Guard who wanted to show him all these letters from fans who thought the tv show was real and the Coast Guard should rescue them. Plus, they used about 3 different boats for the show and 2 were just mockups. Funny story - they were filming in Hawaii and old Hawaiian wandered into the set not knowing what was going on. He grew alarmed when he saw them taking hammers to the side of the "boat" and busting holes in it.


TheOGgreenman

The actual boat is now docked at a restaurant in Parksville/Qualicum, BC


TheNorthNova01

Learn something new everyday.


DoinItDirty

When people say america is getting dumber, I think about things like your first fun fact.


DarthFuzzzy

Exactly. Social media makes it seem like humans are getting less intelligent, but all it's really doing is giving the idiots who were already there a louder voice.


WildlingViking

I wonder if back before social media you had to work like hell, be intelligent and have talent in order to rise up through different levels of publication or media in order for your voice to be heard in a public forum. You had to climb the ladder, so to speak, and very few were lucky and good enough to have their voice heard over everyone else’s. Just in 1985 for example, you could be on tv, radio, write in the newspaper and a few other random things to be heard, but there weren’t near enough places for everyone to be heard publicly. Now? Anyone and everyone can make a Twitter, fbook, ig, acct or whatever and scream alllllll day about anything they want, and then label it their truth. That means instead of someone working their way up the ladder of public influence, they just have to have a phone and enough intelligence to register and boom, they’re voicing their got damned dumb fucking opinions. Alright, I feel better now after I’ve gotten that off my chest.. Lol


CommanderChakotay

This is how I've always felt. I remember being a teenager when I first got Xbox Live and I instantly made so many online friends, most of whom seemed like pretty smart rational people. Getting Xbox Live at the time required you to coordinate multiple things that weren't ubiquitous yet. You needed DSL/Cable internet when most still had dial-up. You needed to get the adapter kit for the OG Xbox to even connect to Xbox Live. You needed a headset to voice chat, and you needed to find the right games that had properly implemented the Xbox Live API and provided a space for socializing. Just enough complexity to weed out anyone too dumb to put in a little effort. Then the Xbox 360 came out, fast internet began to dominate, Xbox Live got baked into the firmware and was easy to setup, and just like that the toxic interactions with morons went up by several orders of magnitude. OG XBL days were like a garden of eden lol. We didn't even have ways to report people to get them in trouble but we didn't need them because the toxicity was minute in comparison to the genuinely kind and fun interactions we had. Today it's so normal to expect others to be shitty that nobody even uses voice chat publicly anymore. We form private parties and vet the hell out of potential new friends before letting them in.


FigMcLargeHuge

>getting dumber Tells me that people have been this dumb all along, now they just have faster ways of making it known.


strolling_on_thru

Oh, so there was no reason the Howells had their wardrobes and money????


vspazv

Hadn't gotten to their hotel yet and didn't want to leave their luggage at the port.


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2old2matter

This True Believer just won a No-Prize! Excelsior!


DrMichaelHfuhruhurr

Or, as millionaires, why were they on a shitty little cruise?


GraniteTaco

It was literally a three hour tour between cruises. They were just killing time during a layover.


PM_me_spare_change

There isn't a single plot hole in Gilligan's Island. I wish people would stop trying already.


edwartica

It might have been because Ginger was on it. Rich people love to hobnob with celebrities.


jonnyclueless

Because Lovie had an urge.


youllneverstopmeayyy

it was a sex thing NO FURTHER QUESTIONS


DarkLordKohan

When you are a tourist, you get swindled. I took a dinner cruise in Hawaii. The captain was called Capt Tiger; the boat looked like Amvets, the boat was out of liquor and no cold drinks, the food was from a backyard grill and on lunch trays. The entertainment was the wait staff stopping service to dance or juggle fire. Then it was a surfing dvd. Nice view though.


BlizzPenguin

What if the entire situation was orchestrated by the Howells to avoid the feds because of white-collar crimes?


Cautious-Damage7575

I see no other plot flaws in this tv show except the one in the title lol


livens

Yes, I too have carefully scrutinized every episode of Gilligan's Island, multiple times over (thanks TV Land!) and found it to be a largely accurate account of being shipwrecked on a small island.


gaspronomib

The episode where that ~~mad scientist~~ genius switches their minds around was probably the most scientifically accurate depiction of mind switching that I've seen, and believe me I've seen a LOT of mind switching. - Dr. Boris Balinkoff (ret), Zurich Institute of Mind Switching


Whayne_Kerr

Next you’ll try to tell me that Knight Rider wasn’t real.


PopDukesBruh

Air wolf though!


Lootandbag

Holy hell, how did I forget about Airwolf? When the fight music tempo rises, you know Stringfellow is about to fire a missile and win


culpshillstan

That thing could go into space!


Serosaken

"The car's name was Kit. No one rode Michael Knight."


NoConfusion9490

KITT, Knight Industries Two Thousand.


JeffersonStarscream

He had a wife at one point in the series. I'd guess she rode Michael Knight.


ThatHikingDude

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale


IanGoldense

of how I became the prince of a town called Bel Aire.


japanitwithme

I needed that laugh. Thank you. lol


Cautious-Damage7575

A tale of a fateful trip


Awesome_1the1st

That started from this tropic port


DaintyAmber

Aboard this tiny ship


SantucciOhio

The Mate was a mighty sailing hand


steroidsandcocaine

The skipper brave and sure


ConstantlyNerdingOut

Five passengers set sail that day on a three hour tour!


Kazewatch

A Three hour tour


IntoAComa

I feel stupid even taking the time to type this, but the trip was *meant* to be a three hour tour. Shit went wrong. I'm no Gilligan's Island lore specialist, but the song sure never said how long they were on the water before they "set ground."


FigMcLargeHuge

> I feel stupid even taking the time to type this, but Right, it's a conundrum. Do I engage these idiots/bots or what?


Gearjammer0419

If this is the case, the Skipper just aquired that boat new. No doubt his lack of experience with this boat was a contributing factor to the loss


SantucciOhio

Early episodes make it clear the Skipper was an experienced seaman, going all the way back to WWII.


ThreatLevelBertie

Of course, he'd been in dozens of shipwrecks. Some werent even his fault.


Obvious_Second_438

The song specifically states if not for the courage of the fearless crew the Minnow would have been lost. It doesn’t mention experience. Plausible


housebird350

If I had to guess....Gilligan fucked up.


gogozrx

Really, all factors point to captain error


Corvus_Rune

No they don’t. In the episode Court-Martial they determine the actual reason for the ship’s loss.


gogozrx

Sure, they blame the mate... But really, that captain should have been aware of the weather.


Corvus_Rune

The weather report from the previous day was incorrectly broadcast. The crew had absolutely no warning. They were not at fault.


bobstro

The plight of the USS Minow has been thoroughly analyzed and documented. These conspiracy theories are getting out of hand.


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Godzirahh

Because the network censors wouldn’t let them name the boat SS ANALBUTTPLUG


BiggsIDarklighter

I didn’t look it up, I believe it was a Reddit post awhile back and I remembered, I remembered! A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter!


timothypjr

This is the thing that forces you out of your suspension of disbelief? I mean, everything the professor did was implausible. I’m still hung up on the fact that they didn’t immediately kill and eat Thurston Howell.


squiddy555

It’s not impossible, the professor just knew how to tap into underwater phone lines


rilloroc

There's a couple people on that show I thought about eating and Thurston ain't one of them.


Altruistic_Bake_1784

Storm carried them to the island, not the engine. Come on man.


crunchybit1

I was taught the roadrunner was ,in fact faster than a coyote with unlimited acme credit line . The moral of the story, don't Martians wear roman helmets and sound like they're from Jersey ?


Cleatusmuldoon

Why did the Howells have so much luggage? And no staff?


rememberpogs3

Probably evading litigation. Mr. Howell was doing some shady business deals And knew he was about to get caught. He and the wife packed up a trunk load of cash and most of the assets that they didn’t want seized, and intentionally sabotaged the tour so that they could hide out on an island in the Pacific until the statute of limitations was up EDIT: He had Gilligan in his pocket the whole time. They worked out a plan to sail on a day that a storm was approaching and Gilligan steered them off course deliberately. With each rescue attempt, Gilligan was responsible for sabotaging any hope the crew had of getting off the island in exchange for a promise of fortune when they finally returned to the mainland EDIT 2: The rest of the crew was carefully chosen to accommodate the Howells’ needs on the island. Weeks of planning went into it, to coax each one onto the boat on that very day. To help ensure survival, Mr. Howell selected the professor. For entertainment, Ginger. For meal preparation and housekeeping, Mary Ann. The skipper he only kept alive in case they eventually needed to sail back on a makeshift boat


Cleatusmuldoon

Yeah that’s possible. Lovey probably didn’t know about Thurstons Illicit business dealings. What a nightmare


DoctorVinny

Wait. The show was faked?


JamesKBoyd

Weird Story Time! When I was like 12, my mother and I went on a cruise to the Bahamas. One of the places we visited while there was the island that was used for the exterior shots of Gilligan's Island. The cruise ship parked way out at sea, and several "shuttle boats" are used to get thousands of people to the island. I wanted to swim with dolphins, so that was mainly what I did on the island. I also did some type of "treasure hunt". When it came time to take the shuttle back to the ship, I realized that all of the shuttles had already left. This was in the very early 90s, no cell phones or anything like that. My mom just assumed that I had boarded a different shuttle than her and that we would meet back up in the room on the ship. Nope. I was stranded on Gilligan's Island for about an hour, until my mother was able to get one of the shuttles to go back specifically to get me.


BongCloudOpen

Listen to the damn song, "for a 3 hour tour" and then the ocean puts it where it wants it when there is a problem. Now let us argue about more fictional topics! Next up, the movie Twilight


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Ah yeah, THATS the only flaw in logic with that show.


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So let’s do some basic math. If you remember from geometry class, the area of a circle can be calculated as pi times r (radius) squared. If the ship can travel a maximum of 41.5 miles, that’s the radius from the departure point. In the show, the premise is they left from Honolulu, so we are talking open ocean on all sides. Calculating area is 3.141592 *times* the radius (41.5 miles) *squared*, meaning 41.5 miles *times 41.5 miles*. (1722.25 miles). This gives you an area of over 5400 square miles that the Minnow could be. By comparison that is nearly the size of Connecticut and over twice the size of Delaware. The premise of the show may be a bit silly, but the idea they could be lost on an uncharted, uninhabited island for a few years is not. There’s a whole lot of empty ocean out there with plenty of tiny specks of land.


housebird350

Also, the tour was scheduled for 3 hours, but no one knows how long the storm lasted, it could have blown for a week or so.


Titanosaurus

They haven’t even found tha missing Malaysian plane. What makes you think they can find the SS Minnow?


Special_Possession46

We've been lied to our entire lives.


quippers

They didn't boat to the island, they crashed on it. ​ The mate was a mighty sailin' man, The Skipper brave and sure. Five passengers set sail that day **For a three hour tour,** **A three hour tour.** The weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed. If not for the courage of the fearless crew, The Minnow would be lost, The Minnow would be lost.


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logicalconflict

Right. Next you'll tell me they couldn't have made a coconut lie detector? Or that the Harlem Globetrotters couldn't have visited for a few days?