Gon. Here is everything advantageous to life.
Ant. True; save means to live.
The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 1
I'm a newby, so be gentle!
Has anyone thought that maybe this is an artificial island that was created
as a research project and towed out to sea?
Here are my thought: There is a cable going out to sea...some sort of
anchoring device.
There is a trap door leading underground...maybe leading to infrastructure.
Unknow source of electricity (Used for the torture)...maybe this is underground.
Animals that are not in their native habitat.
No wreckage for previous inhabitants.
Any thoughts?
swoodka
I thought about this as well. That the island may in fact be moving around
like an arch. Collecting species. When Johanna was swimming the island
actually moved away from her. When the diary writer talks about seeing
something in the sea and hearing steam blow off it may of been its propulsion.
Without a point of refrence they could be moving in a certain direction.
This island may of started in Anartica and moved up to the south seas.
Lockeness Monster
polar bears don't live in antarctica.
STOP: Society To Oust Purgatory theories!
AilaAolani
Well, my original idea was not that it started in anywhere in particular,
just that it was setup as a research environment that has gone bad. Kind
of a biosphere idea (Not the Paulie Shore thing!)
swoodka
Some scientific problems with a moving island: satellite images would
of spotted a moving island years ago, there is a square inch of earth
that hasn't be photo'ed by satelitte numerous times.
There is either a power or communication cable coming out of the sea to
Danielles lair, which means the island is connected to another place,
either a land mass or an underwater colony. If there is power or communications
going through it, it has to have a point A and a point B. If the island
is the point of origin of the power/comm, then it is being sent elsewhere,
and if another point is the source and the island is the reciever, then
someone is purposely sending power/comm through it to the island. If the
island is moving, the cable would break.
It is possible this is an artificial island, but to think that it could
float isn't scientifically sound, and the press releases did say the story
lines would make sense.
rottenralf
Dammit.
Yeah, I did.
Well, some people warned me this was going to happen.
But I don't think the cable is what you make of it.
Abraxas
I think that there are some posts that are here that are trying to make
my original post too difficult. I have to disagree that something this
size cannot float around...currently there is a giant iceberg that is
blocking off shipping lanes and starving penguin colonies. Granted, that's
not man made, but it is possible. If such an artificial island were able
to be constructed, it could be populated with flora and fauna, and SLOWLY
towed into position and possibly tethered there. If engineers can create
a superstructure to drill oil in the North Atlantic (Quite possibly the
harshest ocean conditions anywhere) like the "Eirik Raude" then
maybe something like this is possible...after all, it is a fictitious
TV show, not a documentary!
We currently don't know what is underground beyond those doors. We don't
know if the cable is a tether, or a power lead, or even a communication
line that isn't working (Thus the broadcasts), or maybe it is a combination
of all of the above. Maybe it's nothing.
The show is titled "Lost", and that doesn't mean that the first
thing that was lost were the airplane passengers...maybe it's the island.
(Just thought I'de throw that out!)
swoodka
At least I'm not the only one wondering what the heck was up with the
cable going off into the ocean...I would have checked out that end first
to see where it was coming from/going to...
SecondBreakfast417
I'd say the cable is leading to some sort of generator powered by energy
created by the ocean water.
I bet Sayid had to swim out very far into the ocean to find the other
end.
Abraxas
I like the idea of a hydrodynamic power generator. If in fact the cable
is a power cable.
We don't know what the metal object they found buried in the jungle is,
let alone "doors". It could be a bunker, a tunnel to/from a
bunker, a utility pipe, a sewer pipe, or an alien spacecraft for all we
know.
We don't know if the cable ran to Danielle's place. In fact we don't even
know it was her 'place'. Sayid started to follow the cable but was caught
in a snair and some time later was found by Danielle. Did she set the
trap or just find him? We assume she set it but we don't know that for
an absolute certainty either.
When we see things we often tend to believe or make assumptions about
what we saw, or more importantly in this case, what we were shown. One
needs to keep in mind this is a TV show and the writers and producers
are known to use misdirection. They may be showing us things that will
lead us to believe one thing but will turn out to be something completely
different. Don't jump to conclusions.
Badger32
I didnt mean for him to swim out to the other end. lol I just meant that
he automatically followed it into the jungle. I would have been like "Lets
see, we're on an island & I just found a cable going out into the
ocean...WTF??"
SecondBreakfast417