It appeared pretty quickly
on the screen last night, so unless you could understand the scratchy film Locke and Jack watched or had a pausable
recording of the show, you may have missed who made the strange footage shown on Lost last night: The Hanso
Foundation. And yes, someone's already figured out that they have a website.There's not a whole lot to see there yet, but it sure seems we can expect something to appear soon. Hover close to the bottom of the list of "active projects" and you'll see a familiar name: Dharma initiative. (Geek note: I love that the Juxtapositional Eugenics Development Institute's initials are JEDI).
I now believe this new information points to a couple of theories about the hatch lair. First of all, I think Jack could be right, that it's a mind game experiment to see how long someone will actually keep entering the code and hitting the button. Or maybe to see how long of an uptime an Apple ][ can have (sorry, lame techie geek joke). Did you notice the year that film was made? 1980. So that means the code has been entered for maybe 25 years now?
There's also evidence that the fictional Hanso Foundation does studies on life extension and selective breeding. It may be that, as someone once pointed out, entering the code and pushing the 'execute' button sends a signal to some remote station as a "yes we're still alive" message.
Remember when Sayid figured out how long that transmission had been going on, the one that Danielle's voice was saying over and over again, pleading for help? Then the strange male voice saying "iteration ..." and a number? That certainly sounds like yet another experiment: how long can we have this woman's transmission repeat, over and over.
I'm also liking the theory of nanotechnology more. After looking at the list of Hanso's active projects, nanotech would fit right in. Remember that electromagnetic field in the hatch lair? Could that be a containment field for a large number of nanotech bots? If he fails to enter the code, more of the nanobots get unleashed. I say "more" because it sure seems that the island "monster" may possibly be something like that, as it's already confirmed that Jack, Kate and Locke saw a "wisp of smoke" like we all did, when they dynamited the thing in the hole last season. Nanotech would certainly explain the smokey look.
So, could Hanso really have made nanotech back 25 years ago? That's where I'm not so sure.
[UPDATE: Looking for what is said on that 877-HANSORG voice message? Check here.]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
11-03-2005 @ 4:06PM
skeg8 said...
The shark which attacked the guys on the raft had a hanso swan logo on its neck. Go check it out.
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11-04-2005 @ 10:43AM
Dave said...
There is a pathogen on the island that either makes you go mad, or you become a carrier. One of the original experiments in enhancing humans.
The others that took Walt and Aaron the baby are the remnants of the original Scientists before the accident on the island. They are checking Walts and Aaron’s blood to see if it can be used to find a cure...to help them and possibley the rest of the inhabitants, so they can get the hell off the Island.
The island is also being monitored from another island/underwater base close by, hence the cable on the beach leading into the ocean..
Also if the code isn't entered the next stage of containment kicks in....based on the Nano-Swarm I don't think that will be good for anyone on the island.
Hanso is on the island frozen; hence the code has to be entered to stop the next stage of containment that would kill everything on the island including hanso....The foundation put the code in place to protect him as long as possible. Broadcasting it out attracts people, the original magnetic properties of the island attracts or brings down any planes in the area.
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11-17-2005 @ 1:09AM
Jameson said...
I don't know if everyone knows this already but on the hansofoundation site, when you click active projects, and go to the life-extension project, there is a hidden link on that page! What's more is that there is a box to enter a password! There is a submit button and another button on the bottom. Can anyone crack the code?
http://www.thehansofoundation.org/khr.html
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11-19-2005 @ 10:00PM
Aries said...
#69..I tried everything from the #'s to my ABC password to other forums and everything in between and got nothing. If someone figures this out please post. Also if anyone figures out how to get into the other dharma initiative sight, please let me know!
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11-19-2005 @ 10:26PM
elizabeth said...
re:#36's comment:
http://bigspaceship1.com/04-23-2006.jpg
the safety dance Indian remix???
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11-20-2005 @ 10:59PM
mathmonkey said...
>The island is also being monitored from another >island/underwater base close by, hence the cable on >the beach leading into the ocean..
I mentioned before that the orangutan in the Hanso literature has the same name is the one in The Mysterious Island (Jules Verne). In that book, there is also a cable from off the island to a telegraph station on the island. I don't want to ruin the book for anyone, so I won't say anything, but it's a fun read. I think we're getting reference overload--Mysterious Island, Star Wars, and whatever the Safety Dance is all about, (it sounds like some 60s style remix).
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11-21-2005 @ 4:55PM
JW said...
Dannielle also mentioned that one of her crew lost an arm. The guy on the video clearly has a prosthetic arm. Could they be the same person?
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11-23-2005 @ 9:21PM
Nickelplate said...
Lots of information and speculation on bigspaceship1.com can be found here: http://www.lostforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=57&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Very interesting theories here.
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11-23-2005 @ 10:32PM
Linda said...
First of all, did anyone notice that in Hurley's dream of eating all the food, that Walt was on the back of the milk carton under a label reading "missing"? the weird part was the milk was put in the hatch bedore Walt went missing, its like someone knew it would happen!
Also, I agree wiht Alex on the thought that there are other hatches because at the beginning of the video under the main heading it reads "3 of 6", so all of the other Hanso experiments must be taking place on the island as well. This would explain the polar bears because they had an experiment on zoology.
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12-03-2005 @ 5:02PM
TheCrazyRabbit said...
4 8 15 16 23 42
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could U tranlate the web site for Dani? Rousseau ?
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12-03-2005 @ 5:18PM
TheCrazyRabbit said...
COULD SOMEONE TRANLATE THAT ?
Vi kan selv ?re odds for at f?t l?ere liv. Ana od ti od ti
miyya iteration thamanya iteration egry iteration besoraa iteration ma'assalama
Dovenskab g?foran og armod f?r lige efter.
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12-04-2005 @ 4:06PM
Bob said...
Way back on post 41 Oct 10th I correctly predicted "the others" were the tailies. Aren't I clever :)
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12-04-2005 @ 4:54PM
Keith McDuffee said...
Bob -- Um, The Others are not the people from the tail of the plane.
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12-07-2005 @ 12:57PM
Kolia said...
I want to say something about the number 108
I don't know if someone notice that but when you add all the number of the trap door you obtain 108(=4+8+15+16+23+42)
(I'm french and my english is bad I hope you understand what I wrote)
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12-15-2005 @ 12:18PM
Heather G said...
I also just sent an email Requesting more information on the projects and signed it Namaste, didn't know if that was a name or not. But it was a vaild email address.
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10-06-2005 @ 12:02PM
Nicholas Wigant said...
Anyone notice when you click the "Terms of Use" link in the lower left that it takes you to a Walt Disney disclaimer? Could Hanso be creating cryogenically frozen extra-terrestrials for Disney?! :)
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10-06-2005 @ 12:08PM
Steve said...
Nanotech was discussed in 1959 in this talk:
"There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom"
http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html
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10-06-2005 @ 12:33PM
mnkekaos said...
As long as we're riding the JEDI wave, (and for anyone who watched the Lost DVD supplements and saw Damon Lindelof wore a Star Wars shirt to his interview), it seemed to me right off the bat that HANSO FOUNDATION sounds a lot like the HAN SOLO foundation.
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10-06-2005 @ 12:36PM
Chris said...
Walt is Luke Skywalker!
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10-06-2005 @ 12:39PM
Chris said...
And Sawyer called Jin Chewie when they were in the pit/prison. The whole scene was very similiar to Chewie, Han Solo, and Princess Leia in Jabba's prison after freeing Han from the carbo freeze.
I'll see you're geek and go all in.
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