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I wonder if the island will still get the dharma food drops?
Quote from: Jas0n on May 30, 2008, 05:21:05 PM I wonder if the island will still get the dharma food drops? where did those drops come from anyhow? not widmore, since that would mean he knew where the island was.
Quote from: moyboy on May 30, 2008, 09:48:38 PMQuote from: Jas0n on May 30, 2008, 05:21:05 PM I wonder if the island will still get the dharma food drops? where did those drops come from anyhow? not widmore, since that would mean he knew where the island was.Costco.
Quote from: PrincessLeia on May 28, 2008, 08:19:27 PMDo you have theories on why the food drops had continued?Yep. I posted a theory about this recently. I think Ben's behind it.Basically, I think there's a bunker with all this food inside. All the food has a preposterously long shelf-life, so could have been stored for years. I don't think it's an infinite supply, but enough to last a few years more, if rationed to being "delivered" every so often.The more senior Others planted the food drops at the Losties' camp in the dark, whilst the Losties slept.Ben kept up the pretence of no provisions arriving for his people, by writing about this in his journal (which is most probably a catalogue of misinformation for the benefit of snooping Others).http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Ben's_diary#Interpreted_textSeeing as Tom made it to NYC and back to the Island with no apparent problem, I'm sure Ben could just stock-up on groceries at a Wal-Mart someplace and bring them back! To the lesser Others like Juliet, the food drops were just another illusion (like "having to" travel by submarine), maintaining a facade that they were being looked after - but far-removed from civilzation.Why would Ben want to give the DHARMA supplies to the Losties and not his own people? Because he needed the women of child-bearing age to remain healthy?... Because he wanted the Losties to have a false feeling of security before they were attacked?... Because he wanted the survivors of Flight 815 to survive?... I'm unsure of this... I still can't work out why Tom was told to shoot into the sand rather than into Bernard, Sayid and Jin.
Do you have theories on why the food drops had continued?