Island Owned by U.S. Gov? - Page 2

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Originally Posted by CableRunner

So we can also assume that the island is not a fool, neither being trapped by time nor space.

Nice...

I'm pretty sure that (1.) not every island in the world is mapped [Indonesia alone is made up of something like 2 MILLION islands]and (2.) that maps from the 16th to 19th centuries are at the very least incomplete and at most include some pretty laughable erros, by today's standards.

And then--here's something to blow your mind--new islands sometimes just show up from nowhere! Crazy, but true. Volcanic eruptions caused the emergence (Note: not RE-emergence) of several islands in Iceland in 1963. Check out Surtsey and Heimaey. You always think of islands as building up above the water's surface over a very long period of time, rather than just popping up fully formed. Makes you feel like you're 10 yrs old again to read stuff like that, doesn't it?

Damn, it's so hot in here my Jello's melting!

--CPPAH

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Originally Posted by lockedown

being merely cloaked, quite a few big ships should have accidently slammed into it spoiling those beautiful beaches with oil spills.

Also, if it was governmentally cloaked, then there was a time when it wasn't cloaked.
So, every little dot of an island in the Pacific (with the exception of Gilligan's Island) appears on Spain's or Britain's maps from the 16th to 19th centuries. And this one, evidently, did not.
Who was cloaking it back then?

Whatever it is, it's more than just a cloaking mechanism.

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Originally Posted by chickenpotpiesarehot

I'm pretty sure that (1.) not every island in the world is mapped [Indonesia alone is made up of something like 2 MILLION islands]and (2.) that maps from the 16th to 19th centuries are at the very least incomplete and at most include some pretty laughable erros, by today's standards.

And then--here's something to blow your mind--new islands sometimes just show up from nowhere! Crazy, but true. Volcanic eruptions caused the emergence (Note: not RE-emergence) of several islands in Iceland in 1963. Check out Surtsey and Heimaey. You always think of islands as building up above the water's surface over a very long period of time, rather than just popping up fully formed. Makes you feel like you're 10 yrs old again to read stuff like that, doesn't it?

Damn, it's so hot in here my Jello's melting!

--CPPAH

newly forming volcanic islands generally take more than a few months to have100s year old trees growing on them.

Also, that is a very big island and should appear on a map.

I'm expecting MaryAnn and Gilligan to walk out any moment.
MaryAnn would then be the hottest girl on the island.

I don't know what 100-year-old trees you mean, but it's true that the 2 Icelandic islands I mentioned are mapped. You're right about that. They're big tourist attractions, especially Heimaey. I just meant that new islands sometimes pop up unexpectedly and, I would imagine, in some even more remote areas of the world than the Northern Atlantic. Probably not often, but often enough and in remote enough areas that probably there is some lag time before maps are updated.

Check many American maps. Probably a ton of islands are left off because really who gives a crap if we know where all the streams in Yap are? No offense to any Yapians (?) out there. I can tell you I had a hell of a time even convincing UPS/Fed Ex/etc. that an island named Mauritius even EXISTS when my company was trying to send stuff to a client there. Icelanders complain how often their island is left off of maps of Europe even to this day! That's an island nation we KNOW well about, from our very own language family (Germanic) and it's still omitted. Knowing this, I think it's pretty likely that other, smaller islands with less relevance to day to day American lives would be left out too. Certainly there are plenty of Internet sites with inaccurate or missing information, since there is no quality control system in place for most of them.

My point here is, if the developed world didn't already have an interest in the mysterious island on Lost, and they have cloaking devices to keep it hidden, it's not so unbelievable to me that it's location woud remain secret. What's weird to me is how many people wind up there anyway.

1.Whatever group built the Foot Statue (and maybe the Temple?)
2. Adam and Eve
3. The slaves on the Black Rock
4. The Hostiles
5. The Dharma Initiative
6. The Others
7. Danielle Rousseau and her team
8. The Nigerians
9. The real Henry Gale
10. Desmond Hume
11. Naomi

That's whats weird. What does the island want from all these people?

I think that is the answer to the show. If the Valenzetti equation is intertwined with the islands existence, what are these people's roles.

i think it was an unchartered island that the hanso foundation and the dharma iniative found and then cloaked to stop anyone else accidentally coming across this island

I still think my timeshare pitch theory is better.

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Originally Posted by DharmaDude

When trying to figure out exactly who "The Others" are, we can try to narrow it down with a few observations:

* Based on their accents, they are Americans
* Based on the different ethnicities of the members, they are not a tribe or a family

So then, who are they?

We know they aren't really dirty savages, but more likely members of a program called the Dharma Initiative...a privately funded ...(we assume) research program.

This presents a few problems:

* The island is "huge". An island that large would most likely be owned by a goverment, not a private company. To purchase an island that large, AND develop highly advanced technology AND fund the program would cost billions of dollars.

* In order to build the hatches and other state-of-the-art underground facilities on an island in the middle of nowhere would require a great deal of shipping and construction, not to mention a huge staff of construction personel to build it.

* In order to continually replentish the staff living on the island with food and comforts and time-off, etc. would also require a great deal of shipping... either by boat, plane or helicopter.

So, if we are to believe that the island is a sort of privately owned Area51, it wouldn't be possible to run this type of operation without making a footprint. All the materials and supplies would have to be based and shipped from somewhere nearby. The real Area51 has its own incognito airline based in Las Vegas in a high security air terminal with un-marked planes that service the secret base daily. The entire thing is cloaked by government security, and the penalty for breaching this security is death.

A private organization wouldn't be able to do this. You simply can't buy an island and start running a multi-billion dollar high-tech initiative without raising the suspicions of nearby governments.

Therefore, it seems the Dharma Initiative may in fact be a front for a secret U.S. Government operation.... a sort of South Pacific Area51 where new technology and mind control experiments are developed and tested.

Yes?

Great Theory. You may be right there.