No seriously, an actual bomb. Thanks to Nate for this tip-off.
Visit this wikipedia page on Nuclear Weapon Design.
Scroll approximately halfway until you see this beauty:
It says Swan!! As in the Swan station?! The very station that housed the mysterious "button". Perhaps Desmond was relieving pressure on a leaking enormous power source? I'm going to need a button to relieve the pressure on my head because my brain is about to explode.
Could this be the subtle correlation to the tight eye shots featured at the beginning of every episode? An incredibly distant hint that all this power and mysteriousness sits buried in a bomb (with a distinctly eye-shaped design) in the middle of the island?
I can't handle their brilliance. I really can't.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Lost is The Bomb
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DUDE, nice work!!! This is very interesting. I love when people can dig into LOST and find clues that somehow relate to the storyline. This is pretty incredible for a show to generate such interest/depth outside of their one hour time slot.
I wanna know more Theories on this bomb idea and the significance of it.
I like this concept a lot, but there are several issues with it.
1. H-bombs are not highly magnetic (electromagnetic) as is seen throughout the episodes in the hatch. The only thing thing that would be given off by an H-bomb would be some amount of radiation (in the form of alpha, beta, and gamma rays), and possibly a little heat. If there were more than that, the bomb would actually be exploding (creating uncontrolled fusion).
2. This is not a nearly limitless energy source. . . it's a lot, but not limitless.
3. It would not cause immediate sickness to be exposed to radiation (as would be the explanation of the worker in the first scene of the season). Workers at the Long Island Nuclear Plant, when it had its issues, were exposed to extreme levels of radiation that would kill them in 20 minutes, but they were fine for the entire day. I think they they eventually developed something, but still.
4. If they did bury it in the 50's, then Dharma almost drills into it in the 70's? Why would Fariday care to see that? Saying that he was intentionally timetraveling as a researcher there. Perhaps he was not, and that is another leap of the island. He was playing another instrumental role in the preservation of the island.
It, however, would make a great tie in with the whole time issue. If they were to bury it based on Fariday's suggestion, it would explain why it is there later. . . more on this later.
Now there are 2 things that make my head spin: LOST and Kenton.
Nice work Pantone. My questions for you…
1. If an h-bomb were buried and emitted high levels of radiation to an already existing power source, could it mutate that source over 20 years to be insanely magnetic?
2. I didn't think about the sickness, but your description of it makes me think of Rousseau's people and "the sickness" she spoke of. She would've landed on Lostie island around 1988.
3. From what we've seen of the time skipping so far, I'm lead to believe Faraday and friends have no control over it. It looked to me as though Faraday (who has proven to be surprisingly crafty) was posing as a lower-level dharma worker, a "workman" if you will. My guess is that they land in Dhara 70's and get wind of the dig that's going on and Faraday infiltrates their lower ranks to get a closer look, and if needed, prevent an accidental detonation. Also, I definitely think they take Daniel's suggestion and bury it, why else would they bother showing us that he relayed all that information to Ellie before hiro-ing outta there?
something to think about...you all amaze me with your brain energy. :)
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