MAP of the Abandoned Darma Sites-MUST SEE!

[firemcd]

http://weburbanist.com/2008/02/13/a-visual-tour-of-the-dharma-initiative-7-mysterious-abandonments-of-the-lost-island/
I loved it!
Hopefully you will too.....:D

[Dzbabykel]

Wow that was really awesome! Thanks for the post :) Haha yet one more thing for me to spend hours looking at.....only 8 more hours til tonight's episode!!! :D

[thelawgiver]

DZ, I'm in California. I guess I need to avoid this Forum from six o'clock on!

[missjulie]

Dharma stations aside, is that an accurate description of the topography? If so... I have an interesting theory.

[Dzbabykel]

Hahah hmmm yes I guess you should, but I'm not going to get to post tonight until late as I have Valentines Day plans with my girlfriends haha...us single chicks have to celebrate it somehow!! :p

But no worries, watching Lost is top priority in those list of plans!!

[Dzbabykel]

Patchy are you a lawyer?? Haha I always feel like you are because of your name :)

[thelawgiver]

Patchy sends you and your gal pals long distance foot rubs!

[Dzbabykel]

Woo hoo!!! :D :D Sawyer has nothing on you!!!

[bunnydixon]

ooh that feels good!!

i cant get on that site though :(

[thelawgiver]

Busted by Dz!

[lostmama]

That map almost makes it look like all the continents smushed together into one???? Doesn't it??? Like maybe that's what happened to our "world"...and they are all still there but in different reality but??? I don't know what I'm talking about anymore. I'm tired!!!

Mommy?

[bunnydixon]

he is not a lawyer - he is a retired soviet soldier who knows lives on a mysterious island :p

what do you do dz?

[lostmama]

or maybe it's just a new virtual reality ride at Disney World or Universal??? lol

[Dzbabykel]

he is not a lawyer - he is a retired soviet soldier who knows lives on a mysterious island :p

what do you do dz?

Hahah well I asked Patchy that because I'm a paralegal studying to become a lawyer! We're kindred hehehe :D

How bout you B? What do you do??

[bunnydixon]

i am a lady of leisure!!! i dont work! :D

[Dzbabykel]

i am a lady of leisure!!! i dont work! :D

Ahh I'm so jealous!! Are you married?? :) That would be so nice, yet I'm such a workaholic (not as much as a Lost-aholic lol) but I love staying busy, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I didn't work! Haha, I'd probably go crazy like Hurley's BF's in the institution :D

[bunnydixon]

seriously i do the hardest job of all - mummy! lol!

[Dzbabykel]

Awww!! I didn't know you were a mommy!! Sooo cute, congrats :D

[bunnydixon]

yeah not so cute at the best of times lol!

[Dzbabykel]

Haha yah I'm sure :) How old??

[bunnydixon]

eldest is 4 and the youngest was 2 last friday (so double celebrations that day as i got to see lost too!)

[Dzbabykel]

Aww how fun :)

[thelawgiver]

I could use a good paralegal under me. :D

[bunnydixon]

Aww how fun :)

sometimes :p lol!!!

[Dzbabykel]

I could use a good paralegal under me. :D

I'm actually job searching! Hire me Patchy, hire me!! :D

[lostmama]

Wait til they grow up if you think it's hard now...I have one that's 11 and one that's 17...
Good and bad, I wouldn't change it for the world, though!!! Best two things I've ever done in my life....

[thelawgiver]

Where in Virginia are you? Richmond?

[thelawgiver]

Unfortunately, if I hired you, neither of us would get any work done because we would be discussing LOST theories all day!

[Dzbabykel]

I'm in the DC area currently, but I go to Richmond lots :)

[Dzbabykel]

Unfortunately, if I hired you, neither of us would get any work done because we would be discussing LOST theories all day!

Hahah I know right, you'd be a fun boss Patchy!!

[Robo42]

Well, if i ever get sued I know who to call, for areference that is. LOl Actually, I should Hire you Patch as I think my problems would just "disappear". LOL

[thelawgiver]

Once they get past my eye patch and the coveralls, they find I'm okay to work for. LOL

[bunnydixon]

Once they get past my eye patch and the coveralls, they find I'm okay to work for. LOL

lol lol lol!!!

[Dzbabykel]

Awww! Is that your little girl Bunny???

[bunnydixon]

no thats me!!! as a child obviously, i dont look like that now (would be a tad worrying!) LOL!

[thelawgiver]

And Dz, as for thelawgiver reference, see below:

The Lawgiver is an orangutan character in the science fiction movie series Planet of the Apes. While mentioned and quoted in the first two installments of the series, the Lawgiver only appears in the final Apes film, 1973's Battle for the Planet of the Apes, played by actor-director John Huston.

The Lawgiver is to the ape society in Planet of the Apes and Beneath the Planet of the Apes a figure much like Moses, Confucius or Mao Zedong — his writings and quotes form the basis of the apes' system of laws and customs, particularly with regard to humans, whom the Lawgiver declared "the devil's pawn", to be shunned and driven out, if not destroyed outright. Statues of the Lawgiver are common around Ape City; when the gorilla army sees a vision of such a statue bleeding, they panic, showing their regard for this icon.

While the Lawgiver's works were used and quoted daily by the apes, they weren't the only ape writings; secret scrolls told the details of the apes' rise to dominance, but were kept from the masses. Dr. Zaius, the Chief Defender of the Faith in the ape world some 1200 years after the Lawgiver, kept a copy of the Lawgiver's essential decrees in his coat pocket, but kept the secret scrolls under lock and key.

Through the course of the series, the chimpanzee Caesar becomes leader of the apes, presumably changing the timeline that led to the world abandoned by his parents, Zira and Cornelius, who travelled to Earth's past. By the time the Lawgiver appears in Battle, the children he addresses (as he tells them about Caesar) are a mix of both humans and apes; the joint society Caesar ultimately promoted appeared to have worked, and instead of condemning humans, the Lawgiver accepts them as his students.

The director of Battle has stated the final shot of the film, with a tear running down Caesar's eye, meant in his view that the joint ape-human society would fail.

[thelawgiver]

Any pictures of you pie-eyed at a Robert Byrnes party and scarving haggis?

[bunnydixon]

so what? you are not a lawyer you are really an ape?
:p

[bunnydixon]

Any pictures of you pie-eyed at a Robert Byrnes party and scarving haggis?


no but plenty of me rolling in the heathers after a good haggis hunt :p

[thelawgiver]

LOL. Patchy is actually a smoke monster and takes many forms.

[bunnydixon]

LOL. Patchy is actually a smoke monster and takes many forms.

hehe - you so mad!

[Dzbabykel]

Hahaha and all this time I was applying to work for an orrangutang! (whoah embarrassing spelling right there lol) haha thats funny...

[akheirax]

Wasnt the Hydra Station off the Island the losties were located?

[Dzbabykel]

Yep the Hydra Station is underwater off the coast of the island.

[akheirax]

Yep the Hydra Station is underwater off the coast of the island.

When the losties were held by the others the station was on a different island right? And that station was called Hydra

[missjulie]

That map almost makes it look like all the continents smushed together into one???? Doesn't it??? Like maybe that's what happened to our "world"...and they are all still there but in different reality but??? I don't know what I'm talking about anymore. I'm tired!!!

Mommy?


Well thats a possibility, but the two mountain ridges look like they were created by continental collisions (converging tectonic plates) just like the Himalayas and the Appalachians were created. By two continents smashing into one anther... there's TWO of these mountain ridges... so assuming the topographic map is accurate and assuming that geology in Lost acts like geology in the real world... than there had to be TWO other continental tectonic plates on either side of that island at some point. The DO NOT look like mountains formed by volcanoes (like Hawaii).

So... an island between two continents that maybe got smashed up from continental drift and lets just say disappeared through a worm hole (and back out into the south Pacific)... for arguments sake, lets say this is true...

Where would we find two continents that close together... oh... maybe between African and Europe? Specifically near... oh... Tunisia? With wandering polar bears?

[lostmama]

AWESOME assumption!!!!

It does look like no. america, so. america, asia and africa....in various shapes...which would explain the polar bear....in Tunisia AND would also explain the differences in "where the plane crashed" and "where they thought it crashed."

VERY INTERESTING!!!!!!! I like the way you think Miss Julie!

[Cloudy]

Where would we find two continents that close together... oh... maybe between African and Europe? Specifically near... oh... Tunisia? With wandering polar bears?

OMG!!! That's awesome!

[bunnydixon]

i still cant see it *stamp stamp*

[thelawgiver]

Dz-now that's an avatar! Patchy gives his patch of approval.

Now let's discuss island formation, which are the peaks of underwater mountain ranges, often formed by volcanic activity, which appears to be the case on Ben's island. So it is doubtful that this reflects any early continent formation.

But there are things that trouble me. As background, let's use the Hawaiian islands as a model. The islands were formed long ago by volcanic activity. Having no connection to other land masses, the flora and fauna developed independently. For centuries, it was inhabited only by insects and birds. There are hundreds of species indiginous only to Hawaii. The polynesians were the first to find the islands and brought other mammals with them, like pigs and the vermon stowaways on rafts (mice, rats, etc.). Other micro-organisms and insects migrated also. Over the years, different plants and animals were brought to this delicate eco-system. Remember that the Galopogos (sp?) islands have unique eco-systems specifically because of their lack of outside influences.

So what's troubling me? There is nothing unique to the eco-system of the island. The tropical fruits are common (mangoes, papayas). The poisonous spider was well known to the H.S. science teacher. He was collecting rare things, but you would think that he would be going apesh*t about all the undiscovered species. There is wild boar on the island. The identifiable churping frog that annoys Sawyer. The sea food they eat is common for the tropics. Jin can identify the eatable sea urchins.

So it appears that the island has been visited by potentially many cultures bringing things like pigs, etc.

As an aside, is it just me or does anyone else find it troubling that the island seems to lack any bird population, which normally florishes on a tropical island like this? Or am I just overlooking it?

Sorry for the rambling.

[bunnydixon]

they have the hurley bird and the birds that claire sees!!! but asides from that, they never do. but in one of the blooper reels a bird craps on suns head! or thats what it looked like anyway!

[hollie425]

hmm nice.... but my question issss:::::

if ben told the others to go to the temple, where is it on the map??? hmm????

[missjulie]

Geology was the only thing from college I remembered! As soon as I saw that polar bear skelly and then I saw the map and I was like OMG! I reeeeallly hope the topography is accurate! Then I might be right!!

On the note of the temple... the map was compiled by Lost fans using solely the show as a reference and since there's really been no information about the temple except the verbal comment and the foot (maaaybe) they can't guage where it would be. I think.

What if the temple isn't on the island?? Not in the water like the hydra/looking glass either?