Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Interesting Read

Here's an interesting blurb I found randomly on the ABC boards. This guy basically took the ideas hinted at on the Hanso website (where they list all the various projects going on) and parallels them to real-world research:

Hello. I do not typically post here. But I will graciously offer my opinion to some of the more bizarre mysteries pertaining to LOST. Whether you believe what I have to say is connected to the show or not, I think you will at least find some of the information.....enlightning...Earlier I had posted a few subjects but they are out of order and completely in disarray, so I will try to give this Thread some sort of fluidity. I will start off by listing ideas to the 6 subjects the Dharma Initiative is persuing........


The Dharma Initiative was created in 1970, and is the brainchild of Gerald and Karen Degroot, two doctoral candidates at the University of Michigan. Following in the footsteps of visionaries such as B.F. Skinner…. imagined a large-scale communal research compound where scientists and free-thinkers from around the globe could persue research in meteorology, psychology, parapsychology, zoology, electromagnetism and utopian social… reclusive Danish industrialist and munitions magnate Alvar Hanso, whose financial backing made their dream
of a multi-purpose social science research facility a reality..


You and your partner are currently located at Station 3, or ‘The Swan,’ and will be for the next five-hundred and forty days. Station 3 was originally constructed as a laboratory where scientists could work to understand the unique electromagnetic fluctuations eminating from this sector of the island. Not long after the experiments began, however, there was… an incident… and since that time, the following protocol has been observed. Every one-hundred and eight minutes, the button must be pushed. From the moment the alarm sounds, you will have four minutes to enter the code into the microcomputer process… –duction into the program. When the alarm sounds, either you or your partner must input the code. It is highly recommended that you and your partner take alternating shifts. In this manner, you will both stay as fresh and alert… most important that, when the alarm sounds, the code be entered correctly and in a timely fashion. Do not attempt to use the computer for anyth–-

Congratulations. Until your replacements arrive, the future of the project is in your hands.





Meteorology

HAARP stands for High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) which is an investigation project to "understand, simulate and control ionospheric processes that might alter the performance of communication and surveillance systems". Started in 1993, the project is proposed to last for a period of twenty years.

The project is jointly funded by US Air Force, Navy, and University of Alaska. It is said that the project is similar to numerous existing ionospheric heaters around the world, and has a large suite of diagnostic instruments that facilitate its use to increase scientific understanding of ionospheric dynamics. Though many have expressed fears of HAARP being used as a nefarious weapon, the scientists involved in aeronomy, space science, or plasma physics dismiss these fears as unfounded. However, it is my belief these fears are not unfounded and this program may well be the next step to dharmageddon.

The mental-disruption possibilities for HAARP are the most disturbing. More than 40 pages of documents, with dozens of footnotes, chronicle the work of Harvard professors, military planners and scientists as they plan and test this use of the electromagnetic technology. For example, one of the papers describing this use was from the International Red Cross in Geneva. It even gave the frequency ranges where these effects could occur -- the same ranges which HAARP is capable of broadcasting.

The following statement was made more than twenty-five years ago, in a book by Zbigniew Brzezinski which he wrote while a professor at Columbia University:

"Political strategists are tempted to exploit research on the brain and human behavior. Geophysicist Gordon J. F.MacDonald -- specialist in problems of warfare -- says accurately-timed, artificially-excited electronic strokes 'could lead to a pattern of oscillations that produce relatively high power levels over certain regions of the earth...In this way, one could develop a system that would seriously impair the brain performance of very large populations in selected regions over an extended period'...No matter how deeply disturbing the thought of using the environment to manipulate behavior for national advantages , to some, the technology permitting such use will very probably develop within the next few decades."

In another document prepared by the government, the U.S. Air Force claims:

"The potential applications of artificial electromagnetic fields are wide-ranging and can be used in many military or quasi-military situations...Some of these potential uses include dealing with terrorist groups, crowd control, controlling breaches of security at military installations, and antipersonnel techniques in tactical warfare. In all of these cases the EM (electromagnetic) systems would be used to produce mild to severe physiological disruption or perceptual distortion or disorientation. In addition, the ability of individuals to function could be degraded to such a point that they would be combat ineffective. Another advantage of electromagnetic systems is that they can provide coverage over large areas with a single system. They are silent and countermeasures to them may be difficult to develop... One last area where electromagnetic radiation may prove of some value is in enhancing abilities of individuals for anomalous phenomena."

Another "use" of HAARP is its weather control systems. The military has had about twenty years to work on weather warfare methods, which it euphemistically calls weather modification. For example, rainmaking technology was taken for a few test rides in Vietnam. The U.S. Department of Defense sampled lightning and hurricane manipulation studies in Project Skyfire and Project Stormfury. And they looked at some complicated technologies that would give big effects. Angels Don't Play This HAARP cites an expert who says the military studied both lasers and chemicals which they figured could damage the ozone layer over an enemy. Looking at ways to cause earthquakes, as well as to detect them, was part of the project named Prime Argus, decades ago. The money for that came from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, now under the acronym ARPA.) Close to something we have heard of, no?

David Yarrow of Albany, New York, is a researcher with a background in electronics. He described possible interactions of HAARP radiations with the ionosphere and Earth's magnetic grid:

"HAARP will not burn 'holes' in the ionosphere. That is a dangerous understatement of what HAARP's giant gigawatt beam will do. Earth is spinning relative to thin electric shells of the multilayer membrane of 'ion-o-speres' that absorb and shield Earth's surface from intense solar radiation, including charged particle storms in solar winds erupting from the sun. Earth's axial spin means that HAARP -- in a burst lasting more than a few minutes -- will slice through the ionosphere like a microwave knife. This produces not a 'hole', but a long tear -- an incision."

The arrogance of the United States government in this is not without precedent. Atmospheric nuclear tests had similar goals. More recently, China and France put their people's money to destructive use in underground nuclear tests. It was recently reported that the US government spent $3 trillion dollars on its nuclear program since its beginnings in the 1940's. What new breakthroughs in life science could have been made with all the money spent on death? Today, a number of new tools for the "elite" are emerging, and the temptation to use them increases steadily. The policies to permit the tools to be used are already in place. The United States is being changed, bit by bit, into the predicted highly-controlled technosociety. And if there is doubt that we are not using this system,

Alex, Ivan, Frances, Charley and Jeanne (August-September 2004): Four destructive hurricanes and a tropical rain storm occur in a sequence, within a short period of time. Unprecedented in hurricane history in the Caribbean, the island of Grenada is completely devastated: 37 people died and roughly two-thirds of the island's 100,000 inhabitants have been left homeless, in Haiti, more than two thousand people have died and tens of thousands have been made homeless. The Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas have also been devastated.

Brazil March 2004: The first-ever hurricane formed in the South Atlantic, striking Brazil with 90 mph winds and causing up to a dozen deaths. "Meteorologists were left scratching their heads in bewilderment as the familiar swirl of clouds, complete with a well-defined eye, appeared in an oceanic basin where none had been spotted before."

India, early 2003: a pre-monsoon heat wave caused peak temperatures of between 45 and 49 degrees Celsius (113 to 120 degrees Fahrenheit), killing more than 1400 people.

In 1999, Iraq suffered its worst drought of the century, with the effect of triggering an even greater dependence on imported grain under the oil for food program. There was a drop of up to 70 percent in domestic yields of wheat, barley and other cereals, which served to further weaken the country's economy, crippled by economic sanctions and the routine bombing by allied aircraft in the no-fly zones.

A similar (although less serious) situation prevailed in Syria and Iran, marked by significant declines in agricultural output. Not to even mention the well known Tsunami that killed 10s of thousands.

Anywho. Just remember these things, draw your own coclusions, and again I will post what I think is going on. Do I think the island has a massive station like HAARP? No. But I do the weather is being controlled by some sort of technological achievement. It could explain the cognitive dysfuntions(whispers, hallucinations, sickness?) and it could also be the same reason that just about everytime the see the Security system(which I will post in misc later) it is raining.





Electromagnetism


According to modern science, everything in the known universe owes its existence to three basic energies or forces: electromagnetism, nuclear forces and gravity. Whether these three are separate forces, or whether they are manifestations of some more basic unifying force is still a matter of conjecture. Even establishment science does not question the patently obvious relationship between electricity and magnetism, but the relationship of these two fields to the "gravity field" constitutes an area physics, which, more than twenty years after Einstein's death, was still largely incomprehensible to modern science. These gravity fields are thought to create a state of perpetual energy that could power high tech equipment, including UFO's

The most illuminating insight into how UFO's are powered can be found in the life and work of an obscure but brilliant American scientist and inventor, Thomas Townsend Brown.
Brown was an early investigator of UFOs and in 1956 helped found the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). Though Townsend resigned not long after NICAP was founded, NICAP was an influential force in civilian UFO research through 1970. The organization's activities drew the attention of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), several high-level officers of which joined the group. Brown Figured out a way to create a gravity field, but he needed a way to harness it.


A "dielectric" is defined as a material which has the unique ability of absorbing electrical energy or "charge" without ordinarily passing this energy on to neighboring materials. Some dielectrics are able to absorb enormous quantities of electrical energy (also referred to as "elastic stress") without discharging, providing that the energy is fed into the dielectric slowly and at low potential. Still others can be charged at extremely high potential at a rate equal to several thousand times each second. Townsend Brown concerned himself principally with this latter type. Using just such a dielectric, Brown constructed disc (or saucer) shaped condensers, and, by applying various amounts of high voltage direct current, witnessed the Biefeld-Brown effect in action. With the proper construction and electrical potential (in the kilovolt range) the disc-shaped "airfoils" were made to fly under their own power, emitting a slight hum and a bluish electrical glow as they did so. More scientifically, perhaps, this process of "flight" might best be described as "motion under the influence of interaction between electrical and gravitational fields in the direction of the positive electrode." In 1953, Brown succeeded in demonstrating, in his laboratories, the flight of disc-shaped air foils two feet in diameter around a circular course twenty feet in diameter. The process involved tethering these saucer-shaped craft to a central pole by means of a wire through which the necessary D.C. electrical potential was supplied at a rate of fifty thousand volts with a continuous input of fifty watts. The tests produced an observable top speed of an amazing seventeen feet per-second (11.5 miles per hour). At least, such is the case officially, although there exists sufficient reason to suspect that there may have been significant advancements in this area which are still well hidden under that proverbial "brass lid" emblazoned with the phrase "Top Secret." Other tests were conducted and he was very successful in later experiments. Information which is easily accessed on the net. Also, many experiments were being conducted in this area of the world at the apex of Brown's discoveries. As well as Uri Gagarin, there is a satellite called Argos or 'Swan' that orbits every 108 minutes.

Since the truth about electropropulsion is based on "ether" (A.K.A. "aether") physics, which has been collected, hidden away, or declared "national security secrets", or intentionally obliterated by false propaganda which is so intense that the general public remains unaware of the facts which are right under their noses. The high priests of this occult knowledge are the elite owners of the coercive monopolist corporate banking, industrial, mineral and related interests, who in turn allow the initiation of certain scientists, military and government officials into their secret teachings only insofar as it is necessary, to execute and maintain a conspiracy of giant proportions, so that the technology can be classified as a "state secret" which can be controlled and enforced by means of unconstitutional "national security laws", military and civilian legal authority, and police. These measures are intended to protect the archaic technology and resources controlled by the elite, from the competition of a truly free market society.


II. Superconducting Supercollider (SSC) in Texas

The SSC would be a huge, highly complex machine. It would consist of an oval, underground tunnel some 54 miles in circumference--or roughly the size of the Beltway surrounding Washington, D.C.--and approximately 12 feet in diameter. Two streams of protons would be accelerated around the loop in opposite directions. The particles within those two beams would reach almost the speed of light before being smashed together within huge detector chambers. There would be about 100 million separate collisions per second.(5) The energies generated by the intended subatomic particle collisions are to approach 40 trillion electron volts--more than 10 times the energy generated by any existing accelerator.(6) The particle collisions are expected to mimic the conditions that prevailed at the creation of the universe. Scientists hope to record the resulting smaller particles and bursts of energy and study them for clues to the fundamental structure of all matter. The ultimate benefits to society are not fully known at this time; however, from experience we know that there will be large payoffs. When the basic secrets of electricity and magnetism were discovered in the 19th century, the consequences -- electric lights, air conditioners, worldwide communications, and computers -- were unforeseeable. It does not take a leap of faith to conclude that discoveries with the SSC may produce even more profound changes and adaptations of the world around us in the future; rather it would be extraordinary if it did not.

The story goes that, following a demonstration of the new miracle of electricity in 1831; Faraday was asked, "What use is it?" He responded, "Sir, of what use is a newborn babe?"

The SSC would have been be the world's largest and most powerful high-energy particle accelerator and could help to unlock the puzzle of the fundamental nature of matter. Government funding is said to be essential because the SSC would be used for "pure" research--trying to advance man's general scientific knowledge. The project was cancelled due to lack of funding and general interest by congress.

Relevancy?? Well the SSC and a "new" particle accelerator is being built using Hadron Elektron Ring Anlage (HERA) magnets. These magnets must readjust or reinject every so often. That every so often just happens to be every 107 minutes and it also happens to be that if the particle misses this step in the process in could cause a potential explosion or "incident". It only needs to be reinjected around this time. Thus we have the blast doors, thus we have a 108 minute timer with a minute leeway. This also may send out a signal to a satellite that then beams the info somewhere else as stated earlier. But I will get into all that fun stuff later. Also, another tidbit of info: In next few decades, the possibility of black hole production at the highest energy accelerators may arise, if certain predictions of superstring theory are accurate . If they are produced, it is thought that black holes would evaporate extremely quickly via Hawking radiation. However, the existence of Hawking radiation is controversial. It is also thought that an analogy between colliders and cosmic rays demonstrates collider safety. If colliders can produce black holes, cosmic rays should have been producing them for aeons, and they have yet to harm us. However, this is also controversial. Models in which colliders cause trouble and cosmic rays do not have been proposed.




Zoology


I really have no basic theory on these animals except there main purpose was to provide a body for experiments. These experiments can range from aging to a certain creature growing opposable thumbs and wielding a machine gun(just kidding). Ill start with aging.

The species furthest from us are prokaryotic microorganisms . Bacteria, for instance, are unicellular organisms that reproduce by cell division or fission; normally a mother cell divides into two equal daughter cells (Brock, 1997). Since we cannot distinguish between progenitor and offspring it appears that these organisms do not age; presumably, these cells have the ability to divide eternally without loss of viability caused by intrinsic factors. Protected from violent death, bacteria are essentially immortal.

Senescence-In biology, senescence is the state or process of aging which follows the period of development. For the social, cultural, and economic aspects see aging.

Sharks are often claimed to show no senescence or cancer. Sharks definitely do get cancer. However, they get it far less often than humans do. The idea that sharks are immune to cancer was popularized by the title of William Lane's 1992 book Sharks Don't Get Cancer. However, inside his book Lane admitted that sharks do get cancer. it is theorized that shark cartilage might inhibit the growth of tumor blood vessels.


Although it is too early to be talking seriously about a fountain of youth, I believe that hormones X and Y represent the first steps toward unravelling the mystery of why certain organisms and tissues age. Unlike melatonin, the compounds that I have synthesised represent the first patentable drugs that actually have the potential of reversing or at least slowing the much-dreaded biological clock. They are the first non-steroidal, non-proteinaceous, non-retinoid hormonally active substances other than melatonin and thyroid hormone known to affect cell growth and differentiation in higher animals.
Furthermore, I have discovered that analogues of both hormones X and Y exist in nature and can be prepared, for example, from certain plants. These substances can be incorporated into over-the-counter products such as cosmetics and vitamin preparations without the difficulty of surmounting regulatory hurdles. The impact, for instance, of a wrinkle cream which actually thickens the skin and returns cell turnover rates to levels found in a twenty-year-old should be obvious, especially since today's cosmetic preparations are mainly designed to cover up the effects of ageing.

This leads me to question whether ancient legends of fantastic life span for humans may not have a basis in reality. For example, thousands of years prior to the biblical era, a Sumerian legend relates the tale of a hero-type figure by the name of Gilgamesh who travelled far and wide in his quest for eternal life. He finally found a plant growing under water that was able to bestow the immortality that Gilgamesh sought. As the tale goes, however, instead of consuming the plant, he fell asleep. During his slumber, a snake ate the plant—hence the mythological explanation for snakes constantly shedding and renewing their skin. The moral lesson of the story is, I suppose, "you snooze, you lose". Due to Gilgamesh's carelessness, humankind was denied the secret of eternal life.2 Alas, mythological descriptions of the "plant," if that is what it was, are not sufficient to make a positive identification.

Andrew Sokar


I could go further into detail with zoology, but I just dont think enough evidence has been shown for any relevant animals besides the shark. Although, what most people dont realize is that it is feasible that humans COULD live forever. The only things to really contribute to death are outside factors. Pollutants, falling, getting shot, disease..etc...If these were eliminated from the environment then it would be possible to immootalize yourself. Of course, then u wouls need soe sort of utopian society..



Parapsychology

Ok. In this portion, I will admit most of what I am going to say/type is completely theoretical and is also shunned by most of the scientific community. However, there have been too many instances and too mant recorded black ops incidents to discount everything. Those that believe in paranormal psychology believe as strongly about it as christians do about god. Just because it is not "proven" or relevant to you, does not mean it doesnt exist. We also know that this is a subject in the video and you better believe they will delve into it. Even the writers said everything will have a pseudoscientific explanation.


The word "clairvoyance" means "clear-sighted," or the ability to see in the invisible (to physical vision) worlds. It is a faculty latent in all and will eventually be possessed by every human being in the course of his or her spiritual unfoldment. Having acquired this spiritual sight, one may then investigate for himself or herself such matters as the state of the human Spirit before birth and after death, and life in the invisible worlds. Clairvoyance is closely linked to 'remote viewing' and was used during the Cold War to spy on Soviet military bases. In some instances the psychics working with the CIA were asked to spy on Soviet military bases in their dreams. They had many remarkable successes and were able to provide verifiable information about the chosen targets. One of these programs was named Stargate that was followed by a sad..sad..tv show. In addition to these various types of clairvoyants, all children are clairvoyant, at least during the first year of life. How long the child will keep its faculty depends upon its spirituality and also upon its environment, because most children communicate all they see to their elders and the faculty of clairvoyance is affected by their attitude. Often children are ridiculed for telling of things that, their elders believe, can only be the result of "imagination," and they soon learn to shut out scenes with engender such ridicule, or at least to keep these things to themselves.


Stargate had three components: one attempted to track other countries' psychic warfare projects; another provided six (later only three) "remote viewers" to any government agency desiring to use them; and the third continued the laboratory research initiated at SRI (and subsequently transferred to another think-tank at Palo Alto, California, called Science Applications International Corporation) .The term remote viewing was coined by Harold Puthoff who, with his colleague Russell Targ, ran the psi project at SRI. The alleged ability to see distantly using psi is known as clairvoyance ("clear seeing"). But that term seemed dated and loaded with undesirable connotations, evoking gypsy fortunetellers, spiritualist mediums, and flaky visionaries. Instead, Targ and Puthoff experimented with more modernesque, technological-sounding terms, until Puthoff's "remote viewing" caught on. (Targ has suggested "remote sensing" would be more accurate because other senses than sight may supposedly be involved.) Remote viewing (RV) is actually a more specific term than clairvoyance, describing a particular type of alleged psychic sensing called "traveling clairvoyance" or, alternately, "telesthesia." As distinguished from some other types of clairvoyance such as retrocognitive and precognitive perception (alleged past and future sensing, respectively), remote viewing describes "seeing remote or hidden objects clairvoyantly with the inner eye, or in alleged out-of-body travel." Said to be "one of the oldest and most common forms of psi," it is also "one of the most difficult to explain"

Theoretically, in order to achieve clairvoyance, it is necessary to establish the connection of the pineal gland and the pituitary body with the cerebrospinal nervous system, and to reawaken the pituitary body and the pineal gland. When that is accomplished, man will again possess the faculty of perception in the higher worlds, but on a grander scale than it was in the distant past, because it will be in connection with the voluntary nervous system and therefore under the control of his will. Through this inner perceptive faculty all avenues of knowledge will be opened to him and he or she will have at his or her service a means of acquiring information compared with which all other methods of investigation are but child's play.

Many researchers and those with alleged ability to remotely view have a few things in common. When the dream, or transcend this world, they all speak of a silver cord, that acts as an umbilical cord. In these "dreams" it allows the viewer to easily trace there way back.The Bible describes people as being "in the spirit" while receiving prophecy. Many biblical scholars attribute this to being in a dream-like state or trance. The terminology of astral projection is also found in Ecclesiastes 12:6-12:7:

"Remember [your Creator] — before the silver cord is severed,
or the golden bowl is broken;
before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,
or the wheel broken at the well,
and the dust returns to the ground it came from,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it."

Projectors claim they can (at will or otherwise) see a silver cord linking their astral form to their physical body. This cord mainly appears to a beginning projector as assurance they will not become lost. However, even experienced projectors find it useful, claiming it is a fast way to return to the body. If the silver cord is severed during life, as a rare form of suicide or naturally by death, projectors believe one returns to the astral as one of eight phases of death, ending either in one's shard of spirit being returned to God or by rebirth. Otherwise, projectors, clairvoyants and spiritualists describe the seventh, or crown chakra as a golden bowl, which is said to shatter at death, especially in a rare form of death caused by a kundalini surge.

Again the connections are rather easy to see. Most who practice clairvoyance do so in reference to hindu beliefs. DHARMA/Chakra/the number 108. 108 is considered very Holy, some other sutle things that I have noticed. Hanso and/or Hanso Foundation. Well in Hindi, Sanskrit and most of the other Indian Language; Hans (Pronounced Hunce) means Swan. Swan is the Logo they use on the Dharma Institute. And thinking from that I derived Lufthansa. If you break it is Luft Hansa, which I would think means Lofted Swan.(Hence the Gold Swan Logo) It is rumored that the Germans stole the some ancient Hindu texts and integrated in their life. i.e. Hitler with the slanted Swastikas, which is very holy in the Hindu Religion. So I see there is a fusion of European and Ancient Hinduism. If this turns out our theories are wrong and it was just mere coincidence, then that itself is creepy.


Misc.


Number Stations


For those of you who do not know, number stations use shortwave radio bursts to trassmit messages. Eventually, if listeners dig around long enough, they'll tune across voices reciting endless strings of numbers. These broadcasts have been heard for at least 40 years. The signals are powerful, but they contain no information about the location of the transmitter or the intended audience. Most listeners linger for a short time, then tune away, utterly baffled. The stations broadcast in a variety of formats (three, four, and five digits, etc.) in languages ranging from English and Spanish to Czech, Korean, and Serbo-Croatian. The voice is often female or child-like and its unchanging inflection suggests that it may be machine-generated, like those wrong-number recordings used by the phone company.

In Episode 18 of "Lost," two sets of people - Leonard and his Navy partners and Rosseau and her team - hear a transmission from a radio tower on Lost Island in the middle of the Pacific. They date this transmission to 16 years ago, which happens to be just before the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the Cold War. You can pick up shortwave broadcasts over great distances. So even if they weren't being broadcast in the middle of the Pacific, they might have been audible there. Conveniently, J.J. Abrahms' other show, "Alias," has a lot to do with spies. In the show, a 15th century inventory Milo Rambaldi is often riffed upon. One of Rambaldi's inventions was a music box that encodes a series of numbers that describe a zero energy fuel source.


What are the signifigance of these numbers and why are they important? The numbers themselves bear no real signifigance. However, the purpose of the numbers are very important. We all know that every 108 minutes the numbers are keyed in to an archaic Apple 2 resulting in the timer resetting. So, basically every hour and 48 minutes someone has to be at the terminal to key the numbers in. Why 108 minutes you ask. Lets delve further.

It was 108 minutes on April 12, 1961 that made the difference to Yuri Gagarin and the world -- the time it took for the first man in space to complete his historic dash around the globe and blaze a trail to the stars. IS this connected? When Jack asked Desmond what he was training for, Desmond replied " A race around the world. Impressive, I know. So your excuse better be good, brother. Yuri's flight was always referred to as "The Race Round The World". Another thing, When Jack and Desmond depart, Desmond tells him this, See you in another life. That is exactly what Yuri told his wife and friends before he left for stars.

So, does this reference have any larger meaning than a few matching quotes? Yes. However, I cant really delve into that because it will get me into another larger post and I dont want to post it if no one is interested in the first place. So, respond and let me know if you are interested because in gets a hell of lot more in depth. Im not pretending that I know what the writers are going to do...exactly. But I think know what they have based most of their plot lines on. By the way, if you are interested in number stations, and you should be, there are plenty of sites out there that will let you listen to the broadcasts. Freaky stuff!

Enjoy!

j.

The Best Show on TV

So at work my boss and I did our top 10 shows of 2005 - obviously LOST was on it. When ranking them, I was very set saying that Lost should be #1. She disagreed, even though she had never watched it. I gave her the DVD, she said it was good, but not brilliant. I told her to give me another show that was better, she didn't. So finally she said, "Ok, what you wrote wasn't persuasive enough, you have one more shot. Convince me it's the best show on TV." So I wrote the following:

What’s in the hatch? This past summer, that was the question on everyone’s lips as the Season 1 finale of “Lost” ended with a cliffhanger mystery on par with “Who Shot J.R.?” And in classic “Lost” fashion, when we finally found out the answer, a whole new series of questions arose that no one knew existed. It’s this complexity, along with a stellar cast, production values, and a rabid online presence that make “Lost” one of the best show on television.
Lost isn’t only the best show on TV because it takes a simple premise and lets it explode with possibility. It’s the blueprint for a cross media experience unique to the 21st century.
A plane crashes on an island and there are survivors. So what? Unlike any show on TV, Lost’s mystery is a mystery unto itself. We’re almost forced to tune in because we have no idea what is happening on this island except there are “Others,” random animals, a killer black smoke, a hatch with a button that must be pressed every 108 minutes and oh yeah, a whole other group of survivors on the other side of the island that gives the mystery a whole other angle. What began as “where are we” has quickly evolved into “why are we here?” and will probably change again.
Before the show began, none of the actors were big stars, now they are all recognizable. The directing is done with a feature film quality to an extent that co-creator and pilot director J.J. Abrams is doing “Mission Impossible III and “Requiem for a Dream” director Darren Aronosky has signed to do some episodes. Each episode is character-centric, simultaneously giving a history of a castaway and forwarding/enriching the present time on the island. And finally, the show is an OCD patient’s nightmare with twists that come back and forth and have forced legion of fans to freeze frame entire episodes looking for clues. And find them. And it’s not afraid to kill off a main character here and there either.
With various plot-thickening official web sites online, books and webisodes on the way, Lost’s TV presence is only the beginning of its possibilities. It’s unique from every other show on television.

Looks like I won. And this will probably be our #1 of the year.