I have. It’s very clear.
Probably not much , unless she was listening to Walt backwards.
Interestingly, if Walt was saying that the button is bad, don’t press it – then that seems to go against what he said to Locke last season… about the hatch. “Don’t open it”.
To NOT open the hatch would mean to just maintain the status quo – Desmond keeps pushing the button.
To open the hatch gives them the opportunity to STOP pushing the button. (Although on the other hand, it does set up the opportunity for Locke and Pals to become mindless button pushing drones like Desmond. So maybe Walt was foreseeing that eventually Desmond would die if the hatch remained unopened and the button-pushing would stop naturally…)
Yeah, I noticed that when I backtracked last week to get a look at the shark logo. Same boundary figure, but different inside – wasn’t the “swan” (which I thought was maybe a snake at the time).
Yes, and he left it behind on the falling-apart raft when he switched to the pontoon.
One thing that I noticed is that there’s no way that little puppy is running at 2Mhz like an Apple II – after each keypress, the cursor is redrawn at 8 interstitials between the entered character and the blank space, instead of just advancing instantly to the next space on a 24X40 grid.
(I’m sure that this is just because it was easier to mock up the archaic-looking screen using an animation proggy on a modern computer than to find a working Apple II and import its video output into the project – but it looks a little off.)
I bet you’re s stitch at parties.
Or… Walt was just trying to save them from becoming the mindless button pushing drones like Desmond.
Hey, I figure if we’re going to spend time thinking about Desmond’s computer as though it were real, we might as well go to hell with the joke. 
We could posit that the computer in the underground dome, although it looks like an AppleII, could actually be a custom-made job, perhaps with more advanced technology than commercially available computers at the time. (Now that I think of it, an AppleIIc was the first home computer I ever used.)
I wonder what Jack will make of the mysterious drug or serum that Desmond was injecting.
I like the theory about Locke’s bastard of a father being the original Sawyer.
I actually didn’t think it WAS an Apple…I figured it was a terminal for the mainframe like collection of odds and ends (I figured this was the writers concept of what a ‘mainframe’ would look like) in the background. I distinctly saw a tape reel to reel unit in the back (for loading programs) and what looked like a FEP to the side IIRC…so I just thought they were using a terminal input device to connect to the mainframe.
-XT
Because, of course, in this show the most obvious reason must be the answer.
But the video (and the bunk bed) said there were two people, and that they should take alternating shifts to remain fresh. So the sleep deprivation aspect wasn’t intended.
Sure, why not? Some of the original subliminal message experiments were done at movie theaters… anything where you can slip in modified frames here and there would work, I’d think.
Hurley’s old mate at the Looney Bin kept muttering the “magic” numbers.
I am willing to be that he was once in the hatch and it drove him crazy.
I suppose, if I am correct, there is a way off the island.
I am also intrested in the HANSO FOUNDATION’S intrest in remote viewing.
Major Ed Dames the famed remote viewer came to mind. Anyone who listens in on Coast to Coast AM or Art Bell will know a little or alot about this prophetic activity. If they are good at it they know an event will happen. Dharma Industries and the Haso foundation does not need to do anything, upgrades or whatever not because they have not remotly viewed a spike in the timeline. Or maby they did and sent the plane in to continue pushing the button.
New theory just in…
Problems where witnessed by the remote viewers. With a little bit of nudging and fiddleing they where able to get the folks they needed on the plane and island. Engenners, Doctors, guns, ect.
a quick check of Hanson’s URL on SamSpade.org yields “BigSpaceship1.com”
cue Twilight Zone theme…
I completely missed that part! Damn and I didn’t tape this episode. (Mom wanted to tape Martha Stewart)
There’s also Dharma Industries as I pointed out way back in post 88 
I haven’t seen that one, but the one I see has Walt jumping up on the C.
He grabbed the meds. There was a pretty clear scene of him running around grabbing stuff. He grabbed a couple handfuls of the meds and a few things from the pantry.
Maybe,
Don’t Push the Button = You Must Have Left Your Post = Set the Monster Free to Reclaim You
Just a thought.
But you are assuming that the experiment actually began in the 70s. What if the button part of the experiment only began with Desmond?
The island, we believe, has been there AT LEAST 16 years, but that doesn’t mean that someone has been pushing the button that long!
But I do have a question: could this island be so big that all the people on it would not have known a plane crashed on it?
CFL seemed to have no clue!
Well, if the underground facility was built less than 16 years ago too, it’d be pretty hard to miss all the mining equipment and the huge construction crews.
Maybe they used that particular part of the Skinner box for something else!
I was assuming that the idea was more that there’s some super-dangerous experiment with mind altering para-rays going on on the island. If it gets out of control, the guys in the bunker will go insane, not be able to enter the code, and kablammo, island is reduced to radioactive fragments. Or something vaguely along those lines.
By the way, and this is the MOST important unsolved issue, what’s up with the “S” in the opening title? Is anyone else constantly distracted by the pixellation on it right when it comes into focus?