When I saw the threads confirming that the logo said DHARMA, I immediatly thought of the Defense Advanced Reasearch Projects Agency or DARPA and its parent ARPA. DHARMA could be a fictional cousin to the real life agencies that have brought about many of the tech advances we have seen over the past 40 years, including the Internet. And the Korean influence could be the from the fact that the government used Korean contractors to build the island. Maybe they even built it according to feng shui because they knew people would be down there for a long time and would need all the help they could get.

My spec...DHARMA studies infectious disease and biological weapons. They built Islands that can move to travel all over the oceans staying clear of other land. On the islands, studies were made of various types of disease. Underground clean rooms were build in case of a massive outbreak on the island. Also, they were rigged to completely self destruct in case of outbreak, so a code consisting of the islands call signal had to be input into a computer system to signify that someone was still there alive and well.

When I saw the threads confirming that the logo said DHARMA, I immediatly thought of the Defense Advanced Reasearch Projects Agency or DARPA and its parent ARPA. DHARMA could be a fictional cousin to the real life agencies that have brought about many of the tech advances we have seen over the past 40 years, including the Internet. And the Korean influence could be the from the fact that the government used Korean contractors to build the island. Maybe they even built it according to feng shui because they knew people would be down there for a long time and would need all the help they could get.

My spec...DHARMA studies infectious disease and biological weapons. They built Islands that can move to travel all over the oceans staying clear of other land. On the islands, studies were made of various types of disease. Underground clean rooms were build in case of a massive outbreak on the island. Also, they were rigged to completely self destruct in case of outbreak, so a code consisting of the islands call signal had to be input into a computer system to signify that someone was still there alive and well.

Excellent theory Jayepmills! It beautifully ties in the practice of DHARMA ("Dharma" means "protection" -- practising Buddha's teachings we protect ourself from suffering and problems) and the nefarious motives of the creators of the hatch. Here is a link to DARPA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA. I think I will jump down this wormhole!!
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That theory on why they need a deadman switch makes sense but we have no evidence as of yet that suggest that there is any research or lab for Desmonds to work in. Especially by himself. Maybe one of the other passages in the hatch. I don't think that Dharma is affiliated with any government agency. Especially since you have a guy with a Scottish accent in a hatch in the south pacific ( we think) with Russian weapons. Plus the logo is a little too "hip" for a government agency.


I wonder if Desmond is a "weapons officer" for some group. He sits in the bunker waiting for the signal to launch his weapon. Could be a Inter Continental missile, a plauge, or even sharks with laser beams on their heads. The deadman switch is to ensure that he is there to push the button. His higher up don't want their plan discovered so they add a self destruct mechanism that destroys any trace of the hatch and its weapon if he cannot enter the code.

Hey Cap'n,
I would bet my house that there are egocentric men playing God with experiments involving humans and energy on the island. I think Desmond is the experiment. Here's what leads me to that conclusion.We know that Desmond has to often inject himself with some sort of serum and that if he doesn’t check in at regular intervals, something really bad will happen. We also know that he thought that humanity, as we know it, had vanished, and was waiting for someone with a code to communicate (rescue?)with him. We also know that there is a great deal of magnetism on the island. Magnetism is very involved in experimental energy technology. One of the founding fathers of this form of energy was Nikola Tesla http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jul/teslaautobio.html (http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jul/teslaautobio.html) Tesla was a business associate of George Westinghouse - and we know the Westinghouse label was in the hatch. There is speculation that the Philadelphia Experiment and its prodigy were derived from the Tesla coil http://www.crystalinks.com/phila.html (http://www.crystalinks.com/phila.html)) and that he also invented "step-up and step-down” transformers. There is so much more, but this is a start. I’ve GOT to get some work done today!!

Where was the westinghouse in the Hatch. I know of Tesla and his coils. My high school back in Portland, OR Benson Polytechnic High School has one that was made in the 70's for their yearly open house that they were ordered to render inoperable after its first test run. I guess that the coil blacked out the radar at the Portland International Airport and more importantly the radars of all the aircraft at the Portland AIr National Guard base.

I think that Desmond may be in control or at least maintains a large EM device, but I think that the serum and the countdown are both psychological placebos to give him something to do.

tryin to add some thoughts onto the great theories you guys have.....

From 1965 through to 1970, Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA), with up to 70-80% funding provided by the military, set in motion operation PANDORA to study the health and psychological effects of low intensity microwaves with regard to the so-called "Moscow signal." This project appears to have been quite extensive and included (under U.S. Navy funding) studies demonstrating how to induce heart seizures, create leaks in the blood/brain barrier and production of auditory hallucinations. Despite attempts to render the Pandora program invisible to scrutiny, FOIA filings revealed memoranda of Richard Cesaro, Director of DARPA, which confirmed that the program's initial goal was to "discover whether a carefully controlled microwave signal could control the mind."


USSR: New Beam Energy Possible?", possibly associated with early Soviet weather engineering efforts over the U.S. (from "Tesla's Electromagnetics and Its Soviet Weaponization" by T.E. Bearden.) According to former Reagan aide Barbara Honneger, "the fundamental reason for the increased interest [in psi research] is initial results coming out of laboratories in the United States and Canada that certain amplitude and frequency combinations of external electromagnetic radiation in the brain-wave frequency range are capable of bypassing the external sensory mechanism of organisms -- including humans -- and directly stimulating higher-level neuronal structures in the brain. This electronic stimulation is known to produce mental changes at a distance, including hallucinations in various sensory modalities -- particularly auditory."

gots these off a site loaded with interesting facts
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/electro.html

Eventhough I should be working, you guys got me interested in this stuff (not that I fully understand what the heck I'm reading). I have noticed alot of articles referring to Soviet / Russian research into the use of electromagnetics and its weaponization, which brings me to this thought.......
Maybe Desmond was sharing the hatch with a Russian counterpart who was helping with the experiments.....which could explain all the russian artillery in the weapon closet.

Whatcha think????

Hi,
Here is a very poor pic of the Westinghouse label. Gee, I thought I posted it before, and now its gone. Let's see if this stays. http://img314.imageshack.us/img314/8...nghouse0dw.jpg (http://img314.imageshack.us/img314/8476/westinghouse0dw.jpg)
Jack's flashlight shined on it when walking it the dark hatch during the MOS/MOF ep.

Thanks for the info jwb! I tried to view that site, but it is "temporarily overloaded!!" I know this stuff definately is affecting my productivity at work!!

Hi,
Here is a very poor pic of the Westinghouse label. Gee, I thought I posted it before, and now its gone. Let's see if this stays. http://img314.imageshack.us/img314/8...nghouse0dw.jpg (http://img314.imageshack.us/img314/8476/westinghouse0dw.jpg)
Jack's flashlight shined on it when walking it the dark hatch during the MOS/MOF ep.

Thanks for the info jwb! I tried to view that site, but it is "temporarily overloaded!!" I know this stuff definately is affecting my productivity at work!!

I am positive that somewhere we will see a Tesla coil. I think that this is a corporation or organization criminal or otherwise we are dealing with. Nothing sponsored by any one government in particular. The soviets can almost be ruled out based solely on the fact that there are brands on the food in the closet . Cold war soviets=communists, capitolism=bad.

Lost has definitely tapped my productivity. Luckily there are a few people in my offic ethat are fans also and I am their link to all these theories.

the offical DARPA website is www.darpa.mil (http://www.darpa.mil) on it there are a lot of seemingly related research projects that have similar LOST tie ins..... explore the site....

I think this theory is getting more and more credible, particularly since I came across this article today: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/32BA737D-5A7F-44B2-A3AA-BDFC6ECB338F.htm

It basically says that DARPA has an experiment in the works that will allow the US government to control sharks for reconaisance purposes, also stimulating them where to swim, and where their prey ought to be. Check it out. Kind of freaky after seeing that DHARMA logo on the fin of that shark.

My spec...DHARMA studies infectious disease and biological weapons. They built Islands that can move to travel all over the oceans staying clear of other land. On the islands, studies were made of various types of disease. Underground clean rooms were build in case of a massive outbreak on the island. Also, they were rigged to completely self destruct in case of outbreak, so a code consisting of the islands call signal had to be input into a computer system to signify that someone was still there alive and well.

That's my thinking as well, It's logical and will probably happen with the plot we have now.