HAHAHA!! That's a great point, Amazon. I'm guessing there is a writer oversight on this one and not that it is a clue, but a great point nonetheless...
Actually, the tube Jack picked up had Locke's Lockdown map on it; this was to let us know that not all of the books or observations that were there were old. It was current. It was a big tube to nowhere.
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Actually Des it was Sawyer who picked it up and it was loose and not in a tube. Just proves the tube system still works but not still in use?
GJ exactly. I remember when Locke first put the copy of the map into the vacuum system and sent it up I thought "ut oh....now someone's going to know he's not only there, but that he's got a map of the hatch system," but in LTDA I realized that scene was to let us know the vacuum system works, is operational, that the huge pile of tubes is relatively current, and came from the Pearl. It was a pretty effective way to establish all of those points with just one scene--clever writing.
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*Des8