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voltsandamps


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Lady, I really don't think the others are isolated from the outside world, i think they can go and come as they please. I also think they have a or several means of communication with the outside world. If someone had developed a means of cloaking an island, in effect making it invisible, and uncle greedy found out, our government would be all over whoever was responsible like a herd of turtles, it would be classified Ultra high top,top,top, secret and taken away from whoever had it, national defense security of course.

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Sir Snootch


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I'm bumping this to the top. This was his version of his mining thread from ABC that he started here, and I wish I had been better at getting in here. Great thought provocing things in here form him and everyone else.

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Sir Snootch


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After looing at a few things from season 2 and 1..I'm back on this a bit. I'm looking at what I remember Volts mentioning about the "Black Rock" being the possible center piece of all the OTHERS stuff. I can see that happening. During a thing on ABC yesterday the writers were talking about how we will learn more about the island iteslf, and they showed the 4 toed statue, and the Black Rock. If nothing else I look forward to seeing what they are about.

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lockesladyness


I cried, "Oh, Lady Midnight, I fear that you grow old, the stars eat your body and the wind makes you cold." "If we cry now," she said, "it will just be ignored."

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a new thought... makes some sense!!!


PsychedelicRelic1 (187 Posts in the last 90 days) Registered: Oct 07, 2005 The Black Rock was a mining ship. It was mining, as its name would indicate, black rock, also know as lodestone or magnetite. I had assumed, because of the magnetic anomolies of the island that the ship was mining ore here on Lostia. Surely Lostia must have the magnetite motherlode. Maybe not. That hole in the bottom of the Black Rock was the result of the lodestone that it was carrying being drawn right through the walls of the cargo bay. At first, the ship was drawn through the outer sea, across the shallows, the sand and the jungle. It became lodged in the jungle's thick growth. But, the cargo of lodestone was still being intensely drawn by an immense magnetic force. The wooden planks gave way and the shipment was torn through its undercarriage. The damage happened on land and not at sea at all! We observed this same immense magnetic draw with the destruction of the Swan Hatch. It was so powerful it bent metal piping and framework.
I came about this idea while contemplating Desmond's fate. I believe he was likewise drawn to the island originally and forced to remain because of something implanted in the ship's bow. I know this has been discussed before, but now it makes even more sense.

I'm trying to think like a simple, stupid TV series developer writing for the dumb masses.


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ladymod
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I cried, "Oh, Lady Midnight, I fear that you grow old, the stars eat your body and the wind makes you cold." "If we cry now," she said, "it will just be ignored."

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and more.....


On a side note...the history of The Black Rock from Lostpedia and The Lost Experience:

The Black Rock was owned and run by the British trading group the New World Sea Traders and was one of the three slaving ships the company ran. Slavery had been outlawed in 1833, indicating the New World Sea Traders operated in the black market.

The New World Sea Traders was owned and operated by Magnus Hanso, a former ship's captain who became a business entrepeneur. While no direct ownership has been stated, it is known that the Black Rock sailed out of slip 23 in Portsmouth docks and Hanso's trading group managed slips 18 though 27.

The Black Rock disappeared in 1881, on a return voyage from a gold mining operation in the South Indian Ocean. Perhaps more interesting than the fact the ship was lost were the circumstances preceding and following its disappearance.

According to traders on Papua New Guinea, the ship sailed away from port in an Easterly direction, rather than West to Africa, where it would exchange gold from the mines in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea for more slaves. According to the ship's manifest that was discovered, the Black Rock initially sailed from (and was supposed to return to) slip 23 in Portsmouth, Britain -- but no shipping company claimed ownership.

A crew of some 40 men, along with an uncounted number of slaves, was presumably lost at sea. Magnus Hanso was known to still have a hands-on passion for the sea and insisted on captaining several voyages every year. It is likely that he was captaining the Black Rock himself when the ship disappeared, based on the note on the blast door map.

The sale of the company in 1882 to the East Ocean Trade Group saw the remainder of the New World Sea Traders slaving and military vessels converted to legitimate trading ships.

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ladymod
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Very interesting theories!

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