TV Show "Lost" Connects To Science

Just the other day, I decided to take a break from school work and relax, so I turned on the TV. Surprisingly, there on the television screen was more science. The show "Lost" is about a bunch of people who survive a plane crash and have to survive on an island with limited resources. The episode I was watching was about the survivors trying to blow up a mysterious hatch. They were trying to find what to blow it up with when they stumbled upon a wrecked ship. The ship had crashed into the island because of the weather patterns around the island. The weather's forces are science. Inside they saw skeletons bound in chains, realizing that this once was a slave ship. The chains had rusted and lost their color because of chemical changes, relating to what we learned in class today. As the survivors came upon the end of the ship, they spotted dynamite and decided to use it to blow up the hatch. As they carried it, they held the dangerous explosives with care. Any quick movements or wrong chemical imbalances could explode these ancient peices of dynamite. Sadly, one members of the group died because he did not carefully hold the dynamite. From then on, the survivors wrapped the dynamite in mud to prevent it from exploding. This shows that the mud cooled the explosives from exploding, another chemical change. Finally, the members of the survivoring group went to the hatch and exploded the hatch. What happens next you will have to watch and see. Whether you like it or not, science is there everyday in all of our lives, from exploding dynamite, to rusting, even weather patterns.