I couldn't find any topic that addressed this, so I started my own. The metal object was shown in the promos for next weeks' episode, completely uncovered and in daylight, and it was definitely a hatch with a window view/port. Does anyone have a screen capture of it yet? Or tried to see what type of machine/craft/structure this hatch-like portion is common to?

can't find the picture and havent been able to watch the show again on my computer with the frame-forward command.

Anyone have the pics of the metal from last night's show?

http://www.lost-media.com/modules/coppermine/albums/ep-caps/season1/1x13-hearts/normal_hearts09.jpg

can't believe no one has mentioned it. The metal is the most interesting part to me.

It has to be some sort of hatch...there HAS to be something big under that

Just looks like an airplane window to me.

on the bottom right there is clearly a hinge. Whatever it is either moves or is connected to something that moves.

It almost looks like a submarine.

or a bunker

ooo :o. Now I see the hinge. That makes it look more like a hatch for a submarine or a spaceship. Very interesting!

Submarine or sunken ship = Watership Down...no?

The island is Pepperland and the monsters are the Blue Meanies?

I dont know much about submarines... but I don't see why any submarine would have a window? What the hell for?

And, logistically.. submarines aren't BURIED IN ISLANDS. Just a thought.

The submarines at Disneyland certainly had windows. How else do you wtiness a starfish chorus? Hmmm, those subs were landlocked too! So our Lostkateers are in a remote unpopulated place with strange characters and crazy French girls....

I've got it!

They crashed into Euro Disney.

It's the plane with zoo animals that crashed into the island before they did. I thought everybody already knew what it was.

space capsule

http://www.michaelp.org/photos/kennedy_space_center/apollo_command_capsule_2.jpg

It crashes back in the day after bringing back Alien infection/life forms.........

Looks like somekind of a tank that could store something.

It looks like a hatch-perhaps to a bunker. If the hypothesis is correct about usage of this island during WW 2, it's very possible that it could be a relic of a bunker from the war that could or could not be being used by "The Others".

OK.......I work on submarines at Pearl Harbor.

I can tell you what that isn't. It isn't any part of the exterior of a submarine. All modern (military) Submarines do not have external windows. Ships do have external windows but those that are mounted in doors are round and are mounted differently. The fact that the window is not flush with the surrounding metal indicates it is not part of an airplane as it would be less aerodynamic. Also the raised window indicates that whatever it is attached to is not very thick, if it were the window would most likely be mounted flush. At the same time it looks like the window may be thick indicating either bullet proof or designed to withstand pressure from inside or out. The hing looks heavy duty, but not like the type used on naval ships. There is also a seam on the left side, its narrower than a normal door.

Most conspicuously absent is rust.....if it were old or part of a ship....it would have lots of iron in it and that environment it would rust fast. It could be aluminum......which would go back to being an airplane part...


/end rambling.

I think it may be a type of deep sea diving helmut/suit.

A diving bell is a cable suspended watertight chamber, open at the bottom, that is lowered underwater to operate as a base or a means of transport for a small number of divers. Unlike a submarine it is not designed to move under the control of its occupants, nor to operate independently of its tether.

Diving bells are used as underwater rescue vessels and by working divers doing underwater work and salvage. The bell is lowered into the water by cables from a crane attached to a ship or dock. The bell is ballasted so as to remain upright in the water and to be negatively buoyant so that it sinks even when completely full of air.

Hoses, fed by pumps on the surface, provide compressed breathing gas to the bell, serving two functions:

Fresh gas is available for breathing by the occupants. Exhaled gas is expelled under the lip of the wet bell, where it rises naturally to the surface.
As a wet bell is lowered, the extra pressure from the water compresses the gas in the bell. If the gas pressure inside the bell were not raised to the outside water pressure, the bell would partially fill with water. Adding compressed gas ensures that the usable workspace within the bell remains constant as the bell descends in the water.

this may apply to this or Nessy that the Diarywritter sees at dawning

I thought it looked like a diving bell or bathosphere type thing, too. I wish we could see if it is spherical

Archangel, great info on submarines -- thanks.

Templeton

Looks like some sort of boiler to me. Hinged door to feed the fire (with wood or coal) and a fire-resistant window to check the fire. However, I am not a plumber.
I would expect something like that to be steel and, therefore, rusty.

Someone already mentioned that and suggested aluminum. Since you would lose all the heat you generate through an aluminum container that chance of it being a boiler are low.

So I guess........nevermind

It is the door off a DC-3, the same plane as Kate's toy.
And I say it came from a DC-3 that crashed on the island that was hauling polar bears.

Two mysteries solved :P

I can't open the link that shows this windowed metal object... but right now thats the least of my concerns.

Granted I missed about 3 minutes in the middle of this episode - but isn't anyone else unimpressed that we haven't seen anything more about Locke and Boone's discovery? Its a huge cliffhanger at the end of Cowboys, and this week - nothing, short of a mention of 4 days L & B spent in the bushes.

Don't even get me going on how they've given up on Claire...

jjo31420 stated "It is the door off a DC-3, the same plane as Kate's toy."

The windows from the DC-3 are rectangular, but there isn't any window on the door.
http://www.boeing.com/history/mdc/dc-3.htm (http://www.boeing.com/history/mdc/dc-3.htm)

It's the........ I thought everybody already knew what it was.


DUDE WOULD YOU PLEASE GO BACK AND EDIT YOUR POST, NOT EVERYONE READS SPOILERS INCLUDING ME! thanks alot.

possible spoiler warning -- it's only my speculation about the metal object
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It is obviously a window in a hinged hatch of some sort. I think it may be a helicopter. It doesn't look like any kind of airplane or ship window I could find, but many different helicopters have protruding windows of varying descriptions.

The link below is to a picture of a Bell helicopter which has a strikingly similar window on it's underside.


http://www.photovault.com/Link/Technology/Aviation_Helicopters/show.asp?tg=TAHVolume02/TAHV02P10_10

Sorry if I did not manage to get the link up correctly. If I didn't, then you can cut and paste it into the address *line.

Obviously it is a metal thingamawhatchit* *:P

I thought of a diving bell as well and iperhaps it relates to the cable Sayeed found epsiodes ago when meeting Danielle.

A submarine, lol...did it have screen doors?

It is obviously a window in a hinged hatch of some sort. I think it may be a helicopter. It doesn't look like any kind of airplane or ship window I could find, but many different helicopters have protruding windows of varying descriptions.

The link below is to a picture of a Bell helicopter which has a strikingly similar window on it's underside.


http://www.photovault.com/Link/Technology/Aviation_Helicopters/show.asp?tg=TAHVolume02/TAHV02P10_10


So your theory is that it's an upside down helicopter?* *

What interests me is the window.* If it was some sort of chamber or tunnel, then I'd think the window would be dark.* Since it's white, it may simply be an earlier, mondo model of a haliburton case stuffed with papers.* *;)

I think it's a power source, or leads to the source of the islands power. The cable Sayid found leads to it.

You can see why Locke wouldn't want electricity on the island... it would take away what he loves about being stranded.

There would be a window on a sub if it was used for observation.

Remember not all Subs are big bullet shaped things used by the marines. They come in all shapes and sizes and some are mostly made of perspex for observing sealife on the bottom of the ocean.

There would be a window on a sub if it was used for observation.

Remember not all Subs are big bullet shaped things used by the marines.* They come in all shapes and sizes and some are mostly made of perspex for observing sealife on the bottom of the ocean.


A submarine window that can open? There were hatches, after all. That doesn't seem too safe :whistling2: