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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Am I the only one who... I mean...
Look. A Bad Thing happens in what is going to be a station to research a pocket of energy. Accident. Bad juju. So cancel the scientific mission there--it becomes about containment, cemented-down like Chernobyl. Gotta push a button to keep something really bad from happening again.
Until the day that button DIDN'T get pushed. And then the "Failsafe" key got turned, at which point the whole station imploded... evidently neutralizing the massive pocket of energy?? Because we don't need to push that button anymore. Whatever we were preventing happening with that button either quit being a problem, or once and for all happened, and now we're done with it. So then... why would Dharma build the station at all? Why not just fire the "failsafe", whatever that is, let the sky turn purple for a few seconds, and save a bunch of concrete?
Could it be that the "failsafe" IS the hydrogen bomb? Even so, why not just blow it up, rather than building the whole Swan station and locking a two-man team down there in perpetuity? It'd save them having to come up with a snowman-based joke, and eliminate one supply drop from the route.[COLOR="DarkSlateGray"]
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I don't think Dharma fully understood the nature of the energy in 1977 and were spooked enough by "the incident" that they simply panicked. Perhaps enough scientists were killed that the workers had to make the call instead.
I look forward to finding out what the fallout of the incident is
beyond a big explosion, general destruction and likely sending the survinging '77 Losties back to the present.
I also think the bomb is still safely in the hands of the Others as it was in the 50's. I doubt they would let Dharma get their hands on it.