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Post by m74z00219 on May 5, 2009 5:26:55 GMT -5
Ok, i understand that a monitor used a computer to release the mounting electromagnetic energy from the island after the incident.
Desmond uses the fail-safe, the hatch implodes and the sky turns purple in the season 2 finale. That was really cool, but why wasn't this simply done before? It seems the failsafe remedied the issue because there seems to no longer be a reason to release the energy...so why wasn't this done many years prior? I suppose it isn't building up anymore?
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Post by spinaltumor on May 5, 2009 7:48:04 GMT -5
I've wondered this ever since Desmond turned the key. The main reason I can come up with is that maybe no one was ever really sure the fail safe key would do anything. And it is was just better to be safe than sorry.
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Post by monsterjester on May 5, 2009 12:33:11 GMT -5
My theory is that if the button had not been pushed for so many years, then the electromagnetic "pressure" would have been too great to be destroyed by the failsafe, and when released would have damaged space time itself. Only after being gradually siphoned off over decades was the energy low enough to be neutralized by the failsafe. I have no basis for this and think it's kinda silly, but hey, why not?
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Post by queenoftheuniverse on May 5, 2009 12:47:48 GMT -5
Perhaps because of the fear that the island would then be visible by the outside world, like when the freighter found it, no one wanted to take the risk?
Plus, since the remedy for the situation caused by the fail-safe being used was to move the island, per Jacobs order, - maybe the dangerous and unpredictable results of turning the FDW so the island would once again be invisible to the outside world were not worth the risk.
Maybe they thought the inconvenience of having someone pushing the button was worth the unknown risks of having the island visible, and then potentially having to move it.
Good question, though, maybe we will learn the real reason soon.
I don't understand how detonating the bomb will undo the hatch being built, isn't it already being built, and the NUMBERS already on the panel? I guess that for all we know, even if the electromagnetic energy is neutralized, the DI could still have the hatch and just have people THINK they have to push the button - since the hatch is being built before the "incident" maybe that was the original intent, anyway. - Or am I missing something major here? That is entirely possible......
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Post by Uncle Igmar on May 5, 2009 18:46:38 GMT -5
I don't think that using the bomb would keep the Swan Station from being built - just change the reason why it was built back to the original reason which we don't know - unless it was just to see - from a psychological point of view - how 2 people would survive together in a very closed environment where the world had suffered a pandemic and the only hope of humanity surviving lay with the 2 people - a man and a woman - functioned down there. The would have been observed from the Pearl Station.
The only reason to use the bomb from a practical perspective that I can think of is that Faraday thought to use it the same way that those who deal with oil well fires actually use explosives to out out the fire by both closing the well and neutralizing the effect of the burning oil - tho in this case we're talking about electromagnetic and nuclear power.
The Swan Station was "re-purposed" after "The Incident" as a way to preserve the island - though as we have seen - even with pushing the buttons - there has to have been some leakage because of the weird electromagnetic properties of the island - or maybe it's the after effects of "The Incident" still lingering.
Just a thought 
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Post by thebeatlesremain on May 5, 2009 19:32:37 GMT -5
There will always be an incident, the actual cause of it may be different, but the going from point A (no incident, therefore no electromagnetism) to point B (the button/incident) will always be there.
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Post by m74z00219 on May 7, 2009 3:20:59 GMT -5
the keeping the island hidden theory seems to make sense, though i recall Ben being somewhat pleased after the event (season 2 finale).
Also, I like your theory monsterjester. That makes sense too.
Also, how could the nature of the actual incident change? I'm not so sure about this flipflopping business. First you cant change the past, then you can...but i have faith.
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