{"id":49181,"date":"2020-07-24T12:35:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T16:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/?p=49181"},"modified":"2020-07-24T12:35:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T16:35:26","slug":"island-of-aquarius-no-more-island-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2020\/07\/island-of-aquarius-no-more-island-the-end.html","title":{"rendered":"Island of Aquarius: No More Island, The End"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><strong>Escape from the Island of Aquarius, pp. 153-160<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, several readers noted that they were glad to see Lila get her moment in the sun. This is absolutely true! Lila gets to be the hero here, after being captured and turned into a virgin sacrifice. Lila grabs up a bunch of explosives, jumps into a whirlpool with only a small emergency oxygen tank, and sets explosives on the underside of the rock cliff separating the fast-sinking underground lake where her father and brother are trapped and, well \u2026 the whirlpool.<\/p>\n<p>She almost dies when a falling rock chunk pins her to the bottom, and only manages to get out of there before the explosives go off by setting a small charge to go off immediately, blasting the rock and freeing her. Is this realistic? Not really. But is Lila a badass hero? Absolutely!<\/p>\n<p>So. The explosives Lila set go off, one after another\u2014given that she set them each for the same length of time\u2014shaking, cracking, and finally collapsing the wall.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A huge wave rolled outward, racing along and slapping the walls of the cavern like a monstrous brush. Hot stones of all sizes soared across the room like comments and pounded the opposite walls like cannonballs.<\/p>\n<p>The people in Adam\u2019s Ark didn\u2019t know what was happening. They only ducked as the wave washed over them, and they cowered as the hot stones pelted the boat and the lake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is wildly dangerous. They\u2019re in a cave.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my original sketch of the collapsing island:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/166\/2020\/07\/The-Island-of-Awuarius-Crumbling-2.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-49129\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/166\/2020\/07\/The-Island-of-Awuarius-Crumbling-2-1024x542.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"542\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I made the following revision to this sketch when it became clear that the whirlpool and the cave are (somehow?) on a similar level, separated by a wall, rather than the one being above the other:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/166\/2020\/07\/Revised-Island-Outline-explosives.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-49136\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/166\/2020\/07\/Revised-Island-Outline-explosives-1024x798.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"798\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So. What exactly happens, in the aftermath of the explosions?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The people in the ark suddenly felt like they ere in a falling elevator. The surface of the lake dropped right tout from under them, and the ceiling disappeared into the haze and spray high over their heads. The boat fell so fast that they almost came up off the floor. Then they saw light. The boat was moving through the cavern at tremendous speed, for the lake was pouring out of the cavern, like tea from a tilted cup, rushing with incredible force toward the light.<\/p>\n<p>The entire side of the cavern and fallen in! They could see the sky up there and they were surging right for it!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um. Okay. I feel like I may need to revise my drawing again? They\u2019re traveling <em>down,<\/em> somehow? When the wall between the whirlpool and the cavern collapsed, the water level in the lake in the cavern <em>fell<\/em>. The lake poured out of the cavern \u2026 into the whirlpool \u2026 rusting <em>downward<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll return to that in a moment.<\/p>\n<p>Lila sees the boat and swims to it, and Dr. Cooper sees her and someone in the boat grabs her. \u201cShe flopped into the boat like a cold, dead fish.\u201d I\u2019m super relieved Lila can catch a breath now and just ride this out\u2014literally\u2014without having to do anything. She deserves it.\u00a0She jumped into a freaking <em>whirlpool<\/em>\u00a0with an armload of explosives to save her father and brother. I mean,\u00a0<em>dayum.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Okay. Let\u2019s return to the physics of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the book, the whirlpool drains into the underground lake, and out into the sea through a tunnel. This is why everyone who has gone into the whirlpool\u2014Adam MacKenzie, Dr. Cooper, Jake, and now Lila\u2014has ended up in the underground cavern the lake is in. If the water level in the whirlpool ended up being lower than the water level in the cavern lake, the cavern lake would have started draining into it\u2014and we know it <em>wasn\u2019t<\/em> draining into the whirlpool, because Lila\u00a0<em>just now\u00a0<\/em>jumped into the whirlpool and got sucked into the cavern lake.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what this situation has to look like before the explosion, in order for them to rush <em>downward\u00a0<\/em>into the whirlpool after the dividing wall falls:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/166\/2020\/07\/Revised-Island-Outline-water-level-2.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-49187\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/166\/2020\/07\/Revised-Island-Outline-water-level-2-1024x561.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"561\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a situation like this, the whirlpool would stop draining into the underground cavern. The island is sinking (rather than the ocean level actually rising), which is how we\u2019re told the cavern filled with water\u2014as the cavern sinks below ocean level, the water in it is rising. As this happens, the air in the cavern is getting squeezed\u2014everyone\u2019s ears hurt. The cavern should start draining into the whirlpool, until the pressure in each equalizes. So why\u00a0<em>isn\u2019t\u00a0<\/em>it?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what happens after the explosion:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/166\/2020\/07\/Revised-Island-Outline-water-level-3.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-49193\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/166\/2020\/07\/Revised-Island-Outline-water-level-3-1024x561.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"561\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But very quickly things change <em>again:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The cavern had belched them out like a cork from a bottle. The Ark was spinning and dancing on the surface of a boiling, rapidly rising column of water that filled the deep canyon where the whirlpool used to be. It was like sitting on top of a geyser. Now they were riding up in an elevator as they watched the walls of the canyon dropping all around them.<\/p>\n<p>The island seemed to react to that very great puncture through its heart. With a long, steady, agonized shudder, it began to drop into the sea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So now they\u2019re going\u00a0<em>up?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/166\/2020\/07\/Revised-Island-Outline-water-level-4.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-49195\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/166\/2020\/07\/Revised-Island-Outline-water-level-4-1024x561.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"561\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wait. Is that even how it would work? If the whole island is going down \u2026 it seems like they would be dropping. After all, how is so much water coming into the whirlpool crater so quickly, from just that one tunnel that\u2019s never described as being all that huge? Sure, once the island dropped far enough, the ocean would come pouring over the sides of the craters. But somehow that\u2019s not what\u2019s happening? Somehow they\u2019re going\u00a0<em>up\u00a0<\/em>like they\u2019re in an elevator while the island\u00a0<em>drops?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>OMG.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sea rose to the top of the canyon and then spilled over the rest of the island, carrying the helpless Ark with it. Adam had the outboard motor running, but there was nothing they could do against the terrific rushing current. The sea was washing over the last remaining high places. The Ark was swept past hilltops, through the treetops, over the submerging jungle, like one more little piece of debris amid the floating pieces of the dying island.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Whaaaat<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/166\/2020\/07\/Revised-Island-Outline-water-level-5.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-49202\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/166\/2020\/07\/Revised-Island-Outline-water-level-5-1024x561.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"561\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Whaaaat<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, their boat is totally wrecked now. 100%.<\/p>\n<p>Look,<em> the whole island<\/em> is sinking. There\u2019s no reason for water to be spewing out the middle (where is it even coming from?!). My basic understanding of how physics works is that the island going down within minutes like this would result in water pouring over the sides:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/166\/2020\/07\/Revised-Island-Outline-water-level-6.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-49204\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/166\/2020\/07\/Revised-Island-Outline-water-level-6-1024x561.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"561\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, yes, water would be coming in through the tunnel. But we\u2019re talking an island that\u2019s sinking on the inside of 15 minutes here. If you build an island with a crater out of salt dough and bake it, including a straw from the crater to the outside of the mound close to its base, and then you submerge your salt dough island in water, water\u00a0<em>will\u00a0<\/em>come into the straw. If you lower it deeper into water and do this\u00a0<em>slowly,\u00a0<\/em>the water will come into the crater through the straw such that the water level in the crater and on the sides of the island will be even. If you lower it\u00a0<i>quickly\u00a0<\/i>the water won\u2019t come in through the straw fast enough, and the water will pour over the sides of the crater.<\/p>\n<p>I may just have to try this, because this whole nonsense setup for some reason\u00a0<i>offends my senses.\u00a0<\/i>But I cannot imagine being able to lower the salt dough island in such a way that water would come in through the straw, fill the crater, and\u00a0<em>overflow it.\u00a0<\/em>Water pressure does not work like that!<\/p>\n<p>Now, mass chaos, sure! Everything\u2019s breaking up, and there\u2019s water churning and moving. Trying to keep the boat afloat would be quite the chore regardless of whether we\u2019re following the rules of physics in how this island sinks and breaks up. Right? Let\u2019s check in:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Ark\u2019s passengers spotted some survivors floundering and struggling in the swirling mud and foam, climbing to logs and lumber, waving and crying out for help. Adam steered the boat their way and picked them up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wait what? They\u2019re somehow navigating their boat through a flooded jungle, riding the crest of a tsunami, and yet they\u2019re still afloat and able to steer\u2014I\u2019m just\u00a0<em>not seeing it.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many casualties floated past like driftwood, but nothing could be done for them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is an issue! This would be traumatic! I\u2019ve never seen dead bodies (I think they\u2019re dead?) floating by me while I\u2019m in a boat, but I\u00a0<em>feel like\u00a0<\/em>that would be traumatic! Especially to\u00a0<em>kids!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just then they see The Dude. He\u2019s clinging to the top of a mostly submerged tree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCandle!\u201d [Adam] shouted, his hands outstretched.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Candle looked up and saw his old friend. After just a short moment of disbelief, those big teeth glimmered in the sun and Candle began to weep for joy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His teeth are \u2026 big. What.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAdam!\u201d he cried, tumbling into the boat and embracing the missionary. \u201cBless Mee-Bwah! Bless Mee-Bwah!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On reader suggested that \u201cMee-Bwah\u201d could be an attempt to say \u201cmy brother\u201d\u2014as in brother in Christ. But I\u2019m pretty sure The Dude is actually using the term as a name for Jesus. So I just have no idea. It\u2019s <em>weird,<\/em> man, it\u2019s <em>weird!<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There was no time to waste. Adam revved the outboard to full throttle, and the old tub began to move steadily along.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This boat is built entirely out of materials that The Dude brought to Adam, in his cavern, via a canoe. There are twenty-seven people, plus the Coopers and Adam and The Dude, and the four or five goons Kelno sent after them, on this boat. That\u2019s like forty people.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Cooper checks in on Lila and says her leg is broken in multiple places.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWill I be able to walk again?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Cooper, the proudest father that ever was, looked at his daughter rand said, \u201cHoney, I\u2019m thoroughly convinced that with God\u2019s help you can do\u00a0<em>anything\u00a0<\/em>you set your mind too!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay,\u201d she said simply.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s actually\u00a0<em>sweet.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They looked behind them at the boiling ocean now closing over the island that no longer was.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But! What about Kelno? Don\u2019t worry! The snake ate him! Because of course it did! \u201cStuart Kelno was gone in a gulp,\u201d Peretti tells us. And then the ocean got the snake. \u201cBoth false gods were gone forever.\u201d Oh\u2014before it eats him, Kelno begs the snake not to eat him, explaining that he, Kelno, and faithfully served the snake, reinforcing the idea that Kelno was a true believer in all of this. Which is <i>weird,\u00a0<\/i>given that he was using a poisonous fly to fake a curse.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few miles out from the island\u2019s grave, the Lord blessed them by letting them find Candle\u2019s canoe, adrift and still loaded with enough food and fuel to get them and to the nearest civilized island. They knew they would survive. They were all saved, in more ways than one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That last part is a reference to the fact that, once the island was behind them, Adam dedicated all of his time to missionizing and evangelizing and reading Bible verses to his grieving fellow boat occupants, who just watched half of their friends drown. But I\u2019ll also note that I think Peretti forgot that Kelno, too, was said to have a boat\u2014a big boat, too. It\u2019s never mentioned again.<\/p>\n<p>The end.<\/p>\n<p><b>I have a <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/lovejoyfeminism\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>Patreon<\/b><\/a><b>! Please support my writing!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, the whole island is sinking. There&#8217;s no reason for water to be spewing out the middle (where is it even coming from?!). My basic understanding of how physics works is that the island going down within minutes like this would result in water pouring over the sides. 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