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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1974552" data-attributes="member: 3649">I'm not sure it's a power source, despite the comment Sayid makes about the batteries. I think that a small transmitter could easily be solar powered and we've had that technology for a lot longer than 16 years. After all, something on the other end would have to be supplying power to it - I don't think underwater cables are generally that thin, and what would be out in the ocean supplying power non-stop for 16 years? I don't know of anything that does that. Even the nuclear pile from a submarine would need maintenance in that time, wouldn't it? Unless there are other people who know there are people on the island - that's one of my theories for right now, that the island is some kind of black-project testing ground for something.  [The other is that Walt just created it to have something to land on <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> The quasi-mystic elements we've seen in some of the recent episodes, though, throws the door wide open. The idea that the island somehow gives you what you need (rather than what you want) is an interesting one as well.] I think the cable is a trap she created. One of the first things new people to the island are going to do once they've given up hope of rescue is walk the perimeter to see how big the thing is (and, probably, to make sure they're really on an island). They come up on this thing. Aha! They think. Civilization! They follow it, as Sayid did, right into the obvious/inobvious double trap and get caught.</blockquote>

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