I said that! I did that! That’s mine!

I’m gonna call something about Lost right now so that, 3 years from now when the show is wrapping up and all the mysteries are explained you can say, “damn, back in ‘07, Adam called that one spot on.”

You’ll even use the term “spot on,” because you’ll be so impressed you’ll turn British for a second.

Here it is:

If you follow Lost (if you don’t, why are you reading this?) you’ll be familiar with “The Incident.”  That is, when the survivors found the original hatch they found a projector with a roll of film.  When they played the film it was an orientation video for something called “The Dharma Initiative - Station 3; The Swan.”  In it, the narrator explained that the occupants of the station (the hatch) had to press a button once every 108 minutes to avoid a catastrophic discharge of an unknown magnetic anomoly near the station.  But they didn’t always have to do this–only since “the incident.”

The video was made in the 70s or 80s, and to this day Desmond was still pressing the button.  Anyway, the “Incident” was never explained, although it’s been hyped up to be something huge.

So, I found something in the real-world called “The Vela Incident.”  (Don’t ask how I find these things.)  It was recorded by a satellite on September 22nd, 1979, and it recorded a series of flashes originating from an island in the Indian Ocean.  The flashes themselves are known as “The South Atlantic Flash.”  Nothing is known about the flashes or where they came from.

Maybe Lost will take advantage of this unknown phenomena and incorporate it into it’s story.  Could the Vela Incident have been the beginning of the magnetic anomoly the Swan was setup to control every 108 minutes?

We know that the Dharma Initiative was originally set up to change something called the Valanzetti Equation (4 8 15 16 23 42).  We also know that the Dharma Initiative failed and something happened to most of it’s members.  Maybe once the incident made it so that they had to push a button every 108 minutes, they said “screw it, we can’t do the initiative anymore,” so most of them left, some of them became the Others, and they tricked someone into staying in order to push the button.

Me-hope-a-so.

Either way, I called it.  Remember that shit.

Another coincidence:  The Vela Incident occured on September 22nd, 1979.  The plane crash survivors landed on the island on September 22nd, 2004.

Another prediction:  it’s been shown (inconsistantly) that magnetic fields have healing properties.  That’s how John Locke and Rose were healed.

Speaking of real world events on fictional shows, the way time moves in Lost is that each episode is kind of like a few hours, and each episode continues from the last.  So, even though the show premiered 3 years ago, only 3 months have passed on the island.  Which means it’s December 13th, 2004 on the island.  The Indian Ocean Tsunami happened on December 26th, 2004.

The Others have already shown that they know shit in a spookily way.

Maybe that’s why they left?  They moved to higher ground.

And will Desmond see it coming?

Me-hope-a-so.