Wow… Interesting theory Christian! I din’t think about that.

One thing though – Patchy said that “hostiles” predated DHARMA. Why would a group of people live on the island before DHARMA?

He might have ben lying of course – but I have a feeling the wasn’t…

The only way it makes sense to me is if the others were originally the subjects of some DHARMA experiments who eventually overthrew DHARMA and took over the island. Think panet of the apes only on an island… hmmm.

http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Radio_tower
I guess I was wrong, there is an actual tower.

Hmm… I thought it was somewhere else, but you could be right. I will have to check lostpedia.

its been a while but wasn’t that in the place where ruso lived, and didn’t it explode.

True. Still, I wonder how big exactly is the island. How long would it take to walk around it? A week? Two?

It’s surprising that no one tried to do this. Sayid attempted this once, but then he ran into Ruso and that quickly ended his trip. Too bad. If he would follow through and circle the island like he planned he would likely see the Hydra Island.

Also, what happened to the numbers station? You know – the one that used to transmit numbers, until Ruso taped it over with the French message? Why no one ever went there?

it only takes two mountains for one to block the view from the other, but its not like they saw the dock or the others camp from the mountain.

True – the swan crew might have not known much about DHARMA. I would say they are part o DHARMA funded experiment but had no idea about other DHARMA work on the island. It’s strange that Others didn’t find Perl and Swan though…

I’m 100% sure that Others are hostiles. We don’t have any evidence of any other group residing on the island.

How big is that damn island anyway? How come no one ever saw Flame station from a mountaintop? It’s not like it was hidden – it was pretty much in the open there.

I also have those questions, in fact I’m still not 100% sure that the hostiles and the others are the same, but I think they are. I think the pearl was watching the swan, so maybe the people in the swan weren’t a part of the rest of Darma, maybe they didn’t know that Darma was under attack.