Bill’s Lost Site

There are lots of websites about Lost. Some are official sites done by ABC and the producers. Others are extremely well done fansites. This post deals with the offical sites. If you come across any sites that I missed please write in and I will add them to the list.

Official Sites
ABC’s Official Lost Site
Show recaps, the ever famous mystery diary from season one. Even games to play. A very nice resource.

ABC’s Plot Bulletin Board
A decent bulletin board that has lots of theories and ideas. However, the site has terrible search functions and there are way too many OT (off-topic) posts. Add in a few idiots that post all the time and the boards become just OK.

The Fuselage ~ Bulletin Boards by Producer JJ Abrams
The better bulletin board. Organized by show and by character. Easy to navigate and it appears to be much better in terms of filtering out non-Lost content.

Oceanic Airlines Website
Website explains that since the crash of our Lostie’s plane the company is shut down. You can however, see seat assignments for the plane as well as take trivia about past episodes.

The Hanso Foundation
This site has a lot in it (although at first glance it doesn’t appear that way). The home page has a brief introduction. Now click the link for Alvar Hanso. Be patient and wait 30 seconds or so. The text on the page will be replaced with a letter from the Global Health Organization.

Try something else. Click the link again for Alvar Hanso. This time click the picture. A similar image to the computer screen in the Swan hatch appears. It alludes to a “Mole” being on one end of the communication. Once it ends it takes you back to the letter from the GHO.

Finally, go the Projects section. There are 7 projects listed. The bottom 6 are all blocked. One of them is the Electromagnetic Research Initiative. Are the remaining 5 the other 5 stations on the island?
If you move your mouse under the last link you will see a link for the Dharma Initiative. It plays the orientation film found in the hatch.
The real interesting item on this page is the letter associated with the 1st project. The letter talks about Joop, an orangutan that is apparently 105 years old. If you move your mouse to the last line of the letter you will notice that it is actually a link. Click it. You are taken to a scrambled page. In the form entry type the word “Copenhagen” (with a capital “C”) and press Submit. You will be redirected to another letter from the GHO. This one is slightly different. There appears to be a new disease that is spreading in coastal Africa that might be associated with experiments from the Hanso Foundation. What is interesting is that this letter was written prior to the other letter. It appears that Hanso “donated” a sizeable contribution to the GHO in order for this problem to go away.
Thanks to Nate’s Lost Information for discovering some of the extra goodies on this page.

One of the major areas of concern is the plane crash. For the sake of argument, let’s assume that the people in the plane had to end up on this very specific island. It’s their destiny, as Locke would say. In order for that to happen here is what would be required:

1. Round up everyone from around the world that is supposed to end up on the plane and get them on a single flight
2. Knock out the planes communication to the ground after so many hours of flight
3. Know that the pilots would turn around at exactly the right moment, changing course to a flight path that leads to the island
4. Hit a pocket a turbulance that is so severe that it breaks the plane into thirds
5. All three pieces of the plane must land on the island (which appears, although we don’t know for sure) to be 5-10 miles wide
6. 50+ people must survive a crash where the plane breaks up at over 30,000ft
7. Jack survives even though he wakes up laying on his back in the middle of a field - no seat or anything else to break the fall
8. Remarkably, the survivors by and large survive the crash with very little injury (no one was permanently disabled or lost limbs or suffered any back injuries)

What are the odds of all that happening?

Throw in the fact that over the past 30 years there is not 1 single example of anyone surviving a commercial airplane crash where the plane broke up at such altitudes. This link is a database of every commercial crash since 1920. You will find that planes breaking up in the air does happen. Surviving the breakup does not. Plane Crash Database

So, what really happened? Why did all of the passengers believe they were in a crash? They all remember the same thing (kind of - another topic for another day). One things for sure - if all these people needed to be on this island they sure picked the hard way to make it happen.

Walt has made 3 appearances since his capture by the “Others”. After re-watching all of the episodes it appears that Walt is doing exactly the same thing in each instance when he appears to Shannon. The finger to his lips indicating to Shannon to hush. Speaking backwards. Dripping wet. Same clothes.

Either Walt has his routine down pat or we are not really seeing Walt.

First of all, I am not a Star Wars nerd. However, I am going to make a Star Wars reference. Remember in the 1st Star Wars, the one from the late 70’s, when the Princess has a message on R2D2 that is to be played to Ben? She is projected out in a hologram. There is a brief message where she is asking for help and provides some direction. It wasn’t really the Princess in the cave - it was her image.

Getting back to Walt … We are not really seeing Walt. We are seeing an image of Walt being projected. He isn’t actually there at all. His message is being replayed over and over again. And Walt doesn’t speak backwards, that’s a glitch in the system. He was recorded speaking properly but in the playback something got mixed up which caused the audio to be replayed backwards.

Now, what is this image or projection? I’ll give you a hint … you have seen them before. Little, lots of them, can be confused with a wisp of smoke. Nanobots. Intelligently compiled these nanobots can assemble to take the shape of an object or person. They can record and transmit audio communication. They would disappear quickly and become invisible to the human eye.

What we are seeing is the nanobots recording Walt. They then take the form of Walt and communicate to Shannon (and now Sayid) the message. The question is, did the Others who are holding Walt want the nanobots to make the recording in order to play for Shannon and others or is this something the nanobots did on their own? Walt was wet at the time of the recording - was that from the ocean or is he being held in a location where you have to pass through water to access it (for example, a location behind a waterfall)?

I am really sure about the following; (1) Nanobots are on the island, (2) They were being studied by Hanso, (3) They have been released (or they escaped) on the island. The Swan hatch that studies electromagnetic stuff is what keeps the swarm(s) from leaving the island. If the button isn’t pushed every 108 minutes does that somehow drop the field allowing the swarm to leave? The Hanso orientation film discussed an accident - was the original accident the swarm breaking out of its secured labratory confines? Now, the only protection is the 108 minute security reset?

A few years ago Michael Crichton (writer of Jurassic Park, Congo, etc) wrote a book describing the dangers of nanotechnology. While the ideas in the book are NOT scientifically feasible today Crichton is describing how the world could be in the not so distant future. His book is a very good read that I would highly recommend to any Lost fan. In the book there are some interesting aspects that I believe tie fairly closely to Lost. Here are the highlights:

- The facility where the nanobots are manufactured is in the remote desert of Nevada ~ far away from prying eyes of the government or any regulatory body
- The work is top secret ~ even those that work for the company don’t really know the extent of the project
- The development of nanotechnology is for the benefit of society ~ the company started with altuistic motives
- The nanobots are housed in a very secure location that involves a super high power magnet
- The nanobots escape unexpectantly in an accident ~ kind of
- The only safe place to be with the nanobots outside the facility is to remain inside the very secure facility
- The nanobots infest people ~ they can give strength to people and sap that strength away ~ they can also alter the state of someone’s mind making them irrational and compulsive
- The nanobots travel primarily in a swarm, a black cloud
- The nanobots learn and progress ~ the AI advances much more quickly than anticipated
- The nanobots can swarm into any shape ~ they take on the appearance of humans and are indistinguishable from real people
- The nanobots learn to “speak” or make sounds to replicate speach

With those points in mind think about the similarities to Lost. A deserted island. An accident that occured. Locke’s ability to walk after 4 years of disability. Quarantine on the hatch telling folks to stay in the bunkers. A black cloud that moves and is organized. The monster that is so large it moves trees yet the Losties haven’t seen it, it’s footprints, or anything else that would indicate that the monster ever existed. Walt’s appearance? Was it really Walt or was Shannon seeing something similar to a recorded message being played back to her?

Anyway, something to think about. If you can think of any additional commonalities please write and in and let me know.

Nanotechnology involves very, very, very small machines. Machines that are built at the molecular level. By themselves nanobots are too small to be effective for much of anything. However, collectively, nanobots can be used to do amazing things.

The stuff of science fiction just a few years ago, we have now entered nanotechnology in it’s infancy. Most, however, agree that in the future most everything we do will have nanotechnology involved in one way or another.

Nanotechnology provides several advantages that hold great promise. First, the ability to organize material at the molecular level allows for far greater control in the development of products. You will see steel-like products developed that will be 10x stronger and weigh just a fraction of what steel weighs now. How will that impact you? The car you drive, the plane you fly in, the building you sit in can all be structure differently, more efficiently.

To get you started on what Nanotechnology is I would recommend:
Nice Beginners Overview
The Future of Nanotechnology and It’s Impact on You
Early Vision of Nanotechnology
The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology

So, with that being said, how in the world does this relate to Lost? It’s my opinion that Nanotechnology is one of the disciplines being studdied on the island by the Hanso corporation. Review the links from above and then come back and read how nanobot swarms are present and are interacting with our Losties.

This blog is dedicated to all things Lost related. Major theories are discussed as well as show recaps. Enjoy the reading and please write in with your thoughts/opinions.