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| − | [[Image:Mittlewerk.jpg|right|frame|Dr. Mittelwerk, as seen in his executive bio from [http://thehansofoundation.org thehansofoundation.org].]] |
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| + | [[Image:Station5Pearl_logo.jpg|thumb|left|The Pearl]] |
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| − | '''Thomas Mittelwerk''', or '''Dr. Thomas Werner Mittelwerk''', is the President and Chief Technologist of the [[Hanso Foundation]]. |
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| + | *The Pearl is station five of six, and acts as a monitoring station. It is the question mark on the [[Blast Door]] map. The station is one large, octagonal room, in which television sets are fed live surveillance pictures of the other hatches (though the only picture that could be picked up as of [[?]] was from one of the hidden cameras in [[The Swan]].) A camera was also notably visible inside the Pearl. |
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| − | ==Bio== |
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| − | "As President and Chief Technologist of [[The Hanso Foundation]], Dr. Werner Mittelwerk humbly serves as [[Alvar Hanso]]'s right hand and chief adviser. |
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| + | *According to [[Pearl Orientation Video|The Pearl's Orientation video]], the staff of The Pearl live there for three weeks, and monitor the occupants of the other stations in eight hour shifts. Whenever a observation notebook is filled, they are placed in a suction tube and sent off to what is only described as 'us'. |
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| − | Born in [[Austria]], Mittelwerk's early years instilled a work ethic that has helped fuel The Hanso Foundation's engine of progress for over twenty years. Losing his mother to rare genetic disorder at a young age, Mittelwerk dedicated himself to become the world's foremost authority on biology and genetics. At eighteen, still pursuing at [[Caltech]], Alvar Hanso personally drafted him to join The Hanso Foundation. |
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| + | *There is a computer identical to the one inside [[The Swan]]. However, it displays "Print Log? Y/N". Upon giving the command, the computer prints a repeating series of numeric codes, interspersed by the word "accepted", as "41602064:41 accepted 41602086:29 accepted" etc. The numbers appear to increase, suggesting that they could be time stamps. If they represent minutes and seconds, it works out to about 79 years; if they represent hours and minutes, it works out to 4745 years. |
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| − | In his role as President of The Hanso Foundation, Mittelwerk's leadership has ensured prodigious contributions to numerous scientific disciplines, all in the name of insuring a better future for the whole of humanity." (off of http://thehansofoundation.org/) |
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| + | ==Theories== [[Image:Station5Pearl_messagetube.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Message Tube]] |
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| − | In Chapter 23 of ''[[Bad Twin]]'', in an apparent new change on the board at [[Widmore]], [[Alvar Hanso]] was replaced by Mittelwerk. Mittelwerk is described as ''"sneaky... got ideas and ambition... everything but morals and conscience."'' |
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| + | * The [[Pearl Orientation Video|Pearl's Orientation video]] says that the purpose of the video is to study the occupants of the other stations, and says that these occupants ''think'' that the work they are doing is extremely important. Perhaps the [[Push the Button|pushing of the button]] in the hatch is just as [[Jack]] said - nothing but an experiment to see if somebody would do it? |
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| − | ==Fake Credentials?== |
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| + | * Also, the orientation video never makes it perfectly clear where the completed notebooks go once they enter the suction tube. Perhaps The Pearl is just an experiment to see if people would fill notebooks, just like [[The Swan]] and [[Push the Button|The Button]] are implied to be? |
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| − | [[Persephone]] revealed [[Thehansofoundation.org#9_May_2006|a transcript from 'CalTech']] that suggests Mittlewerk never attended CalTech and that he might not even be a real doctor. |
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| + | * The numbers displayed on the log printout could possibly be the numbers being entered and confirmation of the button being pushed in [[The Swan]]. |
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| + | * The numbers are not hex coding, as that would be the digits 0-9 plus the letters A-F (and sometimes explicitly denoted with a leading "0x"). |
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| + | * The numbers shown on the printout are always an eight-digit value starting with 416020nn, followed by a colon and two more digits. The "nn" values seem to gradually increase (and presumably were smaller earlier in the log), while the digits after the colon always seem to be "41", "05", or "29". |
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| − | Over the transcript, she writes: |
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| + | * The log may also reveal the discussion between [[Michael]] and "[[Walt]]". |
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| − | [[Image:Caltech.jpg|thumb|right|Screen capture of CalTech tuition statement.]]<pre> |
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| + | * This may be where the message from "Walt" was sent from. |
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| − | "Caltech has no record of this guy in their |
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| + | ** If this is indeed the case, then it may confirm the existance of hidden passages interconnecting the Hatches, as the only visible entrance to The Pearl was uncovered by [[Eko]] and [[Locke]]. |
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| − | Alumni database! He's never made a tuition |
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| + | ** Then again, they could have brought Walt in the same way Locke and Eko went in, and just closed the door & scattered dirt over it when they left. |
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| − | payment does he even have a college degree? |
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| + | [[Category:Stations|Pearl]][[Category:Island location|Pearl]][[Category:Unsolved]] |
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| − | Why does he call himself a 'Doctor'? Of what. |
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| − | Who is this clown?" |
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| − | </pre> |
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| − | ==Additional Info== |
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| − | * Mittelwerk was a large underground facility built by the Nazis that was staffed with prisoners transferred from concentration camps. The conditions were horrific and thousands of prisoners died due to malnutrition, disease, exhaustion or hanging (by camp guards). The site is where Hitler ordered the V-2 missile to be built, it being the first missile or vehicle to pass the sound barrier. |
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| − | * "Werner" is likely a reference to [http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/history/VonBraun/VonBraun.html Wernher Von Braun], the German rocketry pioneer who was the lead designer of the V-2 rocket. |
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| − | * Werner could also be a reference to Werner syndrome, a genetic disease (on chromosome 8) that causes premature aging and death, which could be consistent with Mittelwerk's role in the Hanso Foundation's Life Extension Project. Werner syndrome is recessive, meaning it is unlikely that Mittelwerk himself has the disease, however he does look somewhat older than the early to mid-40's implied by the Hanso Foundation website. |
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| − | [[Image:Werners.gif|thumb|right|Werner Syndrome patient, from the NCBI database]] |
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| − | * There is no one listed in any U.S., German or Austrian phonebook named Mittelwerk. The only other association on the Internet, other than the Lost Experience Game is the underground facility from WWII. |
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| − | * Mittelwerk can be translated as "central work", perhaps indicating his importance in The Hanso Foundation |
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| − | * His email address is mittelwerk@hansofoundation.org |
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| − | [[Category: Characters in The Lost Experience|Mittelwerk, Thomas]] |
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Revision as of 04:37, 11 May 2006
Station Five of Six: The Pearl
The Pearl
- The Pearl is station five of six, and acts as a monitoring station. It is the question mark on the Blast Door map. The station is one large, octagonal room, in which television sets are fed live surveillance pictures of the other hatches (though the only picture that could be picked up as of ? was from one of the hidden cameras in The Swan.) A camera was also notably visible inside the Pearl.
- According to The Pearl's Orientation video, the staff of The Pearl live there for three weeks, and monitor the occupants of the other stations in eight hour shifts. Whenever a observation notebook is filled, they are placed in a suction tube and sent off to what is only described as 'us'.
- There is a computer identical to the one inside The Swan. However, it displays "Print Log? Y/N". Upon giving the command, the computer prints a repeating series of numeric codes, interspersed by the word "accepted", as "41602064:41 accepted 41602086:29 accepted" etc. The numbers appear to increase, suggesting that they could be time stamps. If they represent minutes and seconds, it works out to about 79 years; if they represent hours and minutes, it works out to 4745 years.
==Theories==
Message Tube
- The Pearl's Orientation video says that the purpose of the video is to study the occupants of the other stations, and says that these occupants think that the work they are doing is extremely important. Perhaps the pushing of the button in the hatch is just as Jack said - nothing but an experiment to see if somebody would do it?
- Also, the orientation video never makes it perfectly clear where the completed notebooks go once they enter the suction tube. Perhaps The Pearl is just an experiment to see if people would fill notebooks, just like The Swan and The Button are implied to be?
- The numbers displayed on the log printout could possibly be the numbers being entered and confirmation of the button being pushed in The Swan.
- The numbers are not hex coding, as that would be the digits 0-9 plus the letters A-F (and sometimes explicitly denoted with a leading "0x").
- The numbers shown on the printout are always an eight-digit value starting with 416020nn, followed by a colon and two more digits. The "nn" values seem to gradually increase (and presumably were smaller earlier in the log), while the digits after the colon always seem to be "41", "05", or "29".
- The log may also reveal the discussion between Michael and "Walt".
- This may be where the message from "Walt" was sent from.
- If this is indeed the case, then it may confirm the existance of hidden passages interconnecting the Hatches, as the only visible entrance to The Pearl was uncovered by Eko and Locke.
- Then again, they could have brought Walt in the same way Locke and Eko went in, and just closed the door & scattered dirt over it when they left.