Lost Theory #3962178

[Dread Pirate Yukon]

The island is a government experiment. All the people are there for a reason. No one is on the island by accident. The plane crash was not an accident. I could be wrong on this next one. No one on the plane has any other person at "home" that will be waiting for them to come back.

The group of french people and the radio signal device was left over from the last group of experiment subjects.

Also this show in itself is a government experiment to gather reaction from the public on situations centered around planes and flying. OK maybe the last part there is a little to far out.

[Dread Pirate Yukon]

Ok so after someone pointed me toward the Philly Experiment thread I must say I agree with that!

Also I think a few of my ideas here may also be integrated.

If this is considered double posting go ahead and remove it.

[Baron X]

Hmmmmmm. Seems fairly original. It would be rather difficult to fill a plane with people who would not be missed. I like the theory, good idea.....however..... unless Jack has lost his license to practice medicine somebody would be looking for him. Besides the individuals missing the airline would probably consider it bad for moral to give up a plane and crew. Charlie is in a band, sure he is not the lead singer and could be easily replaced. And let's not forget Sawyer, I'm sure there is somebody at home waiting in his trailer, at least a pack of dogs........

[Dread Pirate Yukon]

Ok Ok The doctor I can't explain yet but its a theory in progress.

Charlie is a drug fiend and has no real friends or family that care about him.

Sawyer's wife is waiting on him but he takes vacation from the mill just start beating her earlier in the evening. So she ain't missing him.

As for the airline if it truly is a governmental experiment they could have staged the plane and the crew. God knows after 9/11 the airlines owe the government a whole crap load of money for bailing them out.

[Hidekun]

Kind of like the movie Cube or Hyper Cube?

[Dread Pirate Yukon]

Maybe a little like Cube but more of a social experiment.

Like how old retired Seal Team members flip out and kill people. Ok that last part was a joke maybe.

[Master Xander]

I remember this little bit from the interview we did with Damon Lindelof... he mentions the Stanford Prison Experiment...

"I minored in sociology in college and a couple of the other writers are a background in sociology. You talk about things like the Stanford Prison Experiment (Ed. Note: Conducted at Stanford University in Palo Alto California, this project sought to answer the question: What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph? These are some of the questions posed in a simulation of prison life conducted in the summer of 1971.) But at the end of the day, there has never been an experiment done about a group of people surviving on an island for a protracted period of time."

I realize of course that the writers themselves are conducting this experiment... but what if... (just throwing this out there).

[Radworld]

Interesting speculation but the elaborateness of such an "experiment" seems...extraordinary to say the least.

It would basically fit one of 2 scenarios.

1) The goverment crashed a plane from 30k feet and would hope for survivors. Seems pretty random for an experiment especially one as controlled as a societal experiment. Even if you pull that off...you have a mtriad of difficulties to override. The Austrailian Government, the Airline company, The FAA...you would have to involve all of these groups on some level of conspiracy the more you think of it the more mind boggling it becomes. And of course if you do get them all to buy into it some WILL talk...They always do. You can't keep a hummer in the White House under wraps these days how are you going to cover a planned airliner disaster?

2) Mind Control experiment. They are all "implanted" with a memory of an air disaster. The problem with that is that everyone on the island will have their own unique memory of the crash...you'd be lucky to get 2 people with the same memory. The problem with that is the truth will unravel mind control has been proven to be unstable on a large scale...People will work out the truth. And then to budget it the cost would be astronomical and thats something the GAO can just brush by. Besides the writers say its all up to date explanations that kind of mind control is way past us now. (or so the matrix would have me believe)

In general...I call "shenanigans"