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Well, your google map coordinates would seem to be not too far off. Since the pilot in the first season said that they were 1000 miles off course on their way to LA, that location would make sense. If I had the time and money, I'd go there, however, I can't.

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It all depends where you put the decimal point, doesn't it? 16 23 42 *could* be 162.342, but it could also be 16.2342 or 1.62342, and so on. It seems unlikely to me that the decimal would break up one of Hurley's numbers, coming in the middle of 23. But that's just me.

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Fly to those coordinates with Google Earth. Nothing is there. There is an island to the north east of there, though.

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Sarah Hatter had this theory on her Flickr account last week.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sh/47743274/in/photostream/

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yes and I had the idea a few days before, except I put in the numbers and ended up in the African Congo. She stole my idea.

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Look even if it is the right co-ordinates I don't think it matters I think you'll find that there is more than one use for those numbers.

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Perhaps its the headquarters for Dharma Industries? http://www.dharmaindustries.com

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This Swedish Schmo? http://www.it.uu.se/katalog/person.php?alias=N2-1296&lang=en

He seems to be working on "The Master Equation" - and the R was only reversed on the image on the Medicine Cabinet - the one on the foodstuff had normal R. Plus we do know that this is all make believe??

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This Swedish Schmo? http://www.it.uu.se/katalog/person.php?alias=N2-1296&lang=en

He seems to be working on "The Master Equation" - and the R was only reversed on the image on the Medicine Cabinet - the one on the foodstuff had normal R. Plus we do know that this is all make believe??

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Well yah, real good ones - but better shenanigans than that lousy Rouseau book Mirror Gene crap ;)

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If you put the numbers in Degrees, Minutes, Seconds.. the location comes out in the Central Africa Republic.

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Oh gawd. There he goes again. JJ Abrams riffin' off yet something else. This time, that classic episode of G.I. Joe where Duke concludes that the window wiper's message (the numbers) are latitude and longitude coordinates pointing to a secret Cobra base...and it turns out to be true!

What a friggin hack.

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I haven't seen this mentioned on this website yet (I just found the site today) but the http://www.dharmaindustries.com/ website source HTML includes the meta keyword "di9fftr731" which is also located on the boxes of food inside the hatch.

Also see: http://www.di9fftr731.com goes to the same website.

So what does that string of letters and numbers mean?

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I've found at the Dharma Industries website that when you try to log in and have the mouse placed over the "7-8 o'clock" series of bars, the first portion of the ip address turns green. I'm smelling a puzzle, but I have never watched the show and I may be missing something. Take a try at it:
http://www.thedharmainitiative.info/
I can't get it past the first set of numbers.

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Well, you can actually make four different sets of co-ordinates if you break it up the way it's been done here, and all four will plunk you into the Pacific Ocean:
4.815N 162.342E
4.815S 162.342E
4.815N 162.342W
4.815S 162.342W

Using Goodle Earth, I plugged in Sydney International Airport, LAX and the four possible co-ordinates, and got the following picture (with the Earth rotated so that Sydney and LA are viewed as horizontal to each other).
http://home.cogeco.ca/~bigj/lost%20map.jpg

Now, if you want to view it with North being up (as we're used to seeing in maps), I present the following:
http://home.cogeco.ca/~bigj/lost%20map%202.jpg

I can't remember off hand (and don't feel like looking to find out) whether they were quite a ways into their flight or not, or which direction they veered off course (North or South?), so I'm not sure which of these points makes the most sense, but still... Don't narrow the search too much just because you've forgotten to check all the possibilities.

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if you watch series 1 episode1/2

you will find that the pilot said
-6h in they lost radio contact and turned off for
fiji and were 1000km off course
-hope it helps

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Adding in Fiji, (and naming the points) you get an image that looks like the following:
http://home.cogeco.ca/~bigj/lost%20map%203.jpg

I'm tempted to find out how far each of the points is from the straight line between Syndey and LA, but I'm not entirely sure how I'd go about doing that.

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I just realized the difficulties present in drawing a straight line across a 2D image of a globe, so... totally disregard the first two images I've got up there.

After some serious digging around, I figured out how far off from a straight line between LAX and Sydney International Airport each of the four potential long/lat points would be (required finding out distances based on long/lat, and then figuring out the height of a triangle based on the lengths of the sides... not fun), and guess what? 4.815S 162.342E is roughly 1,086 miles off from the straight line. (the others are 159mi, 245mi and 1,530mi) The only problem with 4.815S 162.342E is that to get to it from the straight path, you'd have to turn away from Fiji, not towards it. Dead end? You decide.

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