yea i heard that!
something else was that they were speculating that penny might know that desmond's location had something to do with electromagnatism/the dharma initiative, which is why those guys were studying that, but how could she have found that out, when he just washed up there, he didn't sign up to join the dharma initiative...
also, why would 'henry gale' have tried to sway locke NOT to push the button, when he wasn't guaranteed that someone would turn the key and deactivate the whole thing- that could have killed not only the tailies but also the others as well...?