Stick this in your ‘canon’
An interesting email arrived for me this evening. It contained what appears to be a scan of a mimeographed sheet from a Dharma Initiative project manual. Problem is, it’s in Norwegian. As it turns out, automated translators don’t play nicely with Norwegian. The results were, in a word, meaningless. Certain parts seemed to make sense, but only by severely skewing the context of phrases that otherwise looked pretty damn random.
So I’ll post a couple of versions of the page here, and if anyone speaks Norwegian, or knows someone who does, perhaps you can share with us what it says.
It is, of course, highly likely this is not canon and just produced to drive us all crazy. I assure you, I will get some kind of confirmation one way or the other. However, those of you who followed our contribution to The Lost Experience may recall that we were called upon to spread information that was canon, and dutifully obliged; so there is a slim chance.
Orchid Symbol Water Mark
Inverted and Cleaned up
Untouched
Looks like a warning that 15 and 15 cannot come close to one another. 15 and 8 are apparently OK. The bottom graph looks like the aftermath of what might happen should 15 and 15 get too close.
Wish I understood Norwegian.
Comment by StuGibson — July 31, 2007 @ 11:57 pm
I’m norwegian and I’ll try to translate it when I get back from work. The problem is that it’s actually danish (or norwegian from the time Denmark ruled Norway), and it appears to have been translated from english to norwegian using a crappy automated translater as well….
But I’ll give it a shot tonight.
Comment by Ivar RJ — August 1, 2007 @ 1:32 am
Hey
It hardly makes sense, actually. The text doesn’t say more than you can see in the pictures. The bottom text talks about what a team should do in case of an emergency, as far as I can tell. But it’s mostly gibberish. I would say it’s fake because they would take their time to do it properly, wouldn’t they? In the Lost Experience they had a Danish phone message at one point, and that was done by a native speaker, so…
I’m Danish and Ivar seems to be right, it looks like Danish translated from English with a crappy automated tranlater
Comment by Mette — August 1, 2007 @ 1:59 am
with the poor translations its brobably a fake that coupled with the obvious tick and crosses seems to obvious for some sort of scientific paper
Comment by nickk — August 1, 2007 @ 3:56 am
Since I am Danish, I have made a translation. It is not perfect as the translation from English to Danish was REALLY poor, but I think you can get a clue of what some of it means.
http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/2879/thegardensy7.jpg
Comment by Kalle — August 1, 2007 @ 5:16 am
In the last line of the translation i wrote “head”, is wrong. Should be “team” instead.
Comment by Kalle — August 1, 2007 @ 5:19 am
Perhaps a good indicator of how bored Lost fans are. They throw us a bone and this is what the ensuing Geek-gasm produces. Without TLE I feel like a heroin addict awaiting my fix. And to think, only 6+ more months of this…
Comment by Higdon — August 1, 2007 @ 6:59 am
Ofc, it always is!
Comment by Kalle — August 1, 2007 @ 8:58 am
Can some one tell me what they mean by “canon”?
Comment by Matt — August 1, 2007 @ 9:52 am
Legetimate, from the producers, real, etc
Comment by TrillianM — August 1, 2007 @ 11:26 am
So, is this canonical or fan derived? It is severely sloppy if canonical. Just to show how Lost deprived some of us are, there is a group of us that started to reconstruct what the words would have been before throwing it in auto translator. After awhile, we realized how totally geek we were by even trying this endeavor. After all, there is nothing that is necessarily hidden around the corner on this one. All of the work to get to, don’t the bunnies to close because bad things may happen. Ha!
Comment by TabulaRasa — August 1, 2007 @ 12:39 pm
That previous post was a clumsy attempt at communication. Here is what I am trying to say: If you drop the text for the sentence under the first bunny diagram into an auto-translator, you get:
If you use that to reconstruct the original intent, and feed it through an auto-translator until the result reads what is on the page, you may get an original text that is probably like:
The point, don’t let the bunnies too close.
Comment by TabulaRasa — August 1, 2007 @ 1:37 pm
Speaking of being bored without Lost, has anyone read the Lost Book Club that started this past month on The Washington Post? http://blog.washingtonpost.com/celebritology
Comment by mafafu — August 1, 2007 @ 3:53 pm
I GOT IT!!! If this is the first time you’ve heard this theory, Please give credit to myself “Jovan” of the fuselage.
Locke is Jacobs CLONE! Thats why when they came in contact with each other, crazy shit started to happen. Thats why his mother claimed he was special! Makes sense now. Thats why Locke is so important.
Comment by Jovan — August 1, 2007 @ 4:53 pm
not true; the cabin got crazy because locke brought out his flashlight. remember the comments about jacob’s dislike of technology?
Comment by andrew — August 1, 2007 @ 6:04 pm
Actually, Jovan, I like your thinking. In fact, that’s one of the most thought provoking theories I’ve heard since, well, May.
Comment by gusteaux — August 1, 2007 @ 7:03 pm
Jovan is right, Locke hasnt come to terms with the reality of the island enough to see Jacob, but when he does, he will be able to be in the same space as him. Therefore making for another doomsday threat ie:”the button”.
Comment by Andy — August 1, 2007 @ 8:00 pm
How do we know thats why jacob reacted the way he did? Ben simply stated that jacob doesnt care for technology. There was nothing about the room starting to shake and things flying around EXACTLY THE WAY IT HAPPEND IN THE ORCHID FILM WHEN TO CLONED BUNNIES WERE IN THE SAME ROOM! I remember when we first got a glimpse of jacob, alot of people thought he looked like Locke. Could that of been intentional?
Comment by Jovan — August 1, 2007 @ 9:49 pm
Doc,
Is this official lost stuff from an official lost person. Is this gonna be the intro to a new lost experience typ thing? Do you have anymore details?
Comment by Jimbo08lak — August 2, 2007 @ 1:43 am
Someone made mention that in Back tot he Future it’s explained why two of the same can’t touch. I don’t recall the full explaination. DOes anyone know?
Comment by downthehatch — August 2, 2007 @ 10:08 am
Lets take this a step further and rather than using the assumption of clone, take it that they are one and the same.
If we assume that there is some form of time travel or passing of time at different rates on the island. Working in somehow the fact that Richard has not aged!
So the Bunny 15 cannot be next to Bunny 15 that has traveled in time. Locke cannot come close to Jacob who is Locke from the future, perhaps trying to use Ben to alter a pre existing time line we have not experienced.
I dont know if any of this has been said before, I dont keep up with all developments and theories!
Discuss!
Comment by steven — August 2, 2007 @ 10:42 am
I remember that happened in the movie timecop. The villain came into contact with himself via time travel and they sort of melted together or something. I don’t exactly remember….but the universe did not end. Also I just remembered this movie:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0097883/plotsummary
Comment by Charlie Lesoine — August 2, 2007 @ 10:56 am
One of the more interesting concepts of the movie was the “Time Quakes” that would occur when potential paradoxes were created in the past. The shock waves of the altered timeline would cause physical quakes in future time line as the implications of the paradox cascaded across time.
from:
http://www.timetravelreviews.com/movies/millennium.html
Comment by Charlie Lesoine — August 2, 2007 @ 11:00 am
Along those same lines maybe Dr. Marvin Candle/Wickmund/Hollowax has different names, because they are all him, but there are many of him existing at any 1 time, therefore he needs a different name for each version of him as to prevent them being mixed up.
Comment by Chainsaw — August 2, 2007 @ 11:11 am
Charlie:
I recall Time Quakes from the movie Millenium…which was great in concept but terribly executed (though I loved Cheryl Ladd constantly smoking throughout the movie)
Comment by downthehatch — August 2, 2007 @ 12:23 pm
Yeah I remember that movie not being too good. But there are definitely some parallels: Finding everyone on the plane dead, except they are actually somewhere else entirely…
Comment by Charlie Lesoine — August 2, 2007 @ 1:34 pm
jacob is not clone, jacob is john - from other time
Comment by heppamies — August 2, 2007 @ 11:40 pm
I like the Jacob is Locke from the future theory. Especially because of the room shaking like in the orchid video. But I see 3 problems with this theory.
1: Ben states Jacob hates technology.
2: Ben tells Jacob to stop it when the room starts shaking.
3: Jacob has a full head of hair. Locke is balding.
Comment by BucK — August 3, 2007 @ 8:19 am
I don’t think Jacob has a full head of hair. I believe he has a monkey on his shoulder which makes it appear as though he does at the angle and lighting we see him from.
Comment by Baz — August 3, 2007 @ 9:53 am
Monkey? looks like a really bad comb-over, kinda like how donald trump looks like he has a badger sleeping on his head.
Comment by TabulaRasa — August 3, 2007 @ 10:41 am