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The Orchid Video

Lost News — July 27, 2007 at 10:04 am by TabulaRasa

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Good job capturing the Orchid video. I got stopped. I do have the rest of the Q&A session.
Here it is for everyone:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=efGycb2GIVg

Comment by flyingfetus — July 27, 2007 @ 10:47 am
Did he drop the f-bomb? hah.

Comment by rick olson — July 27, 2007 @ 11:28 am
It’s about time after all the crazy stuff happening on the island that someone dropped the F Bomb!

Comment by AIon — July 27, 2007 @ 11:46 am
WTF,lol

we could use some more of stuff like that during the 6 month break

Comment by nickk — July 27, 2007 @ 11:59 am
They def took the opportunity to curse off cable. Anyone else see the quick cuts of the DeGruts and Hanso’s building and then almost unreadable text?

Comment by Gorman — July 27, 2007 @ 3:35 pm
I wonder if the Orchid station is the location of the “Magic Box” Ben told Locke about. It cloned a rabbit so maybe with the right knowledge, that the Others have, the site can give you whatever you wish for.

Comment by Mossy — July 27, 2007 @ 9:18 pm
It cloned a rabbit

No, I don’t think that’s what happened. Remember, D&C have said almost as many times that they’ve said “No, they’re not dead or in purgatory” that the word cloning will never be uttered on the show. No, they’re not going to say “exact duplication of genetic material” to weasel out of it because I think there’s a decent explanation for what happens in that video that’s based in science. The clip mentions the Casimir Effect:

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/C/Casimir.html

This may be relevant to space travel because the region inside a Casimir cavity has negative energy density. Zero energy density, by definition, is the energy density of normal ” empty space.” Since the energy density between the conductors of a Casimir cavity is less than normal, it must be negative. Regions of negative energy density are thought to be essential to a number of hypothetical faster-than-light propulsion schemes, including stable wormholes and the Alcubierre warp drive

Hmmmm….electromagnetism on The Island, where have we heard that before? :-) Rabbit #15 isn’t cloned, it simply uses the Casimir effect to end up on the shelf and since it’s moving faster than light, it happens in less than the blink of an eye. That would explain why Jacob isn’t seen, though he’s there; he’s ahead of the speed of light most of the time.

I agree this might be a possibility: I wonder if the Orchid station is the location of the “Magic Box” Ben told Locke about. I wonder if Jacob is simply a man trapped within the Casimir Effect and that he croaked “Help me” to John so that John could help out of the limbo he’s in and that for whatever reason Ben can see him? My attitude when it comes to LOST and the various mysteries is: what is the most ordinary explanation, what has a basis in scientific possibility?

Two other things: Is what’s in that clip The Incident that lead to the creation of the button? And Doc Whatever The Hell His Real Name Is does have two arms, did he lose the one during the events depicted?

Comment by Henry Holland — July 27, 2007 @ 10:50 pm
the magic box was explained, before ben even said it, on the lost forums. after season 1 there was a white dot game on the official site. if you connected all the dots they formed a 4d box which was formed by the locations of the 6 stations. remember that there is a weather station above somewhere maybe more then 1. plus a lower dot which is now known as the looking glass. the box basically covers the whole island or atleast a large percentage.

Comment by fixed92 — July 27, 2007 @ 11:00 pm
I have just cropped the video for better viewing.

Comment by Jack — July 28, 2007 @ 12:35 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VnTKZyfGLE

Comment by Jack — July 28, 2007 @ 12:36 am