Talk:Hanso Foundation

message: Why was this section removed?  It was not a copy/paste from the website.  It contained relevant and difficult to find information.
Yeah, where is this infomration about Dr. Mittelwerk?
http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Thomas_Mittelwerk
 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bluerisk (talk • contribs) 09:21, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hanso Foundation Executives 

message: Merge. I think we should merge all this into The Hanso Foundation. We don't need a whole article for a fictional guy the only thing about whom we know is that he founded a fictional foundation. Phoenix-forgotten 05:11, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Alvar Hanso into this article 

message: http://bigspaceship1.com is a red herring.  The following two links are for pages that track number stations:
http://www.spynumbers.com/WBNY.html http://www.cvni.net/radio/nsnl/nsnl053/nsnl53vs.html
Both talk about a message broadcast occasionally in the Eastern US; the same message is repeated, at times, on the bigspaceship1.com site.  If you look at the transcription of the number cipher (which is as easy as a newspaper jumble puzzle), you get different messages, of which one mentions the "FRN" and the other someone named "Al Fansome".  If you google "Al Fansome," results include a page from http://www.frn.net, which is a site for pirate radio enthusiasts; someone with the username "Al Fansome" posts in the forum regularly, often referencing a rodent uprising (again, mentioned in the message broadcast on the same frequency as above and played on bigspaceship1.com) and spars in the forum with a "Commander Bunny."  If you need further proof that this can't be in any way connected with the show, ABC, or Disney, view this entry from Fansome on the forum: http://www.frn.net/vines/Forum1/HTML/001753.html.  It references a .wmv file on another server, http://rjdudley.com/media/squirrel_launcher.wmv, which would land any corporate entity at all responsible, no matter how cirumscribed the route, in serious hot water with the SPCA and other animal welfare groups, not to mention several state and/or federal statutes.  This is a radio pirate/hacker, who may or may not have had access to the Hanso Foundation site as a designer (or simply hacked the https protocol), having fun with Lost fans.  http://bigspaceship1.com is registered to an individual rather than a company.
Jodaboyo 14:21, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Bigspaceship1.com

message: Are we allowed to upload images from the Hanso foundation site in order to embed them into the article? I would like to add the faxes sent to HF from the GHO, but not sure what the situation is with ABC's copyright. --morphax 03:43, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Wouldn't it be possible to just say what is in the faxes? Do we need the images? -Willmcw 04:46, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree.  I think it'd be helpful to at least quote what is in the faxes, or provide a link to somewhere they're permanently posted.  Right now, you can't access any of them on the THF site.--TsuKata 03:58, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about copyright 

message: I don't know if it's just my computer, but I can't view any of the letters that were added to the site at the end of last year. Has anyone else had this problem? Jon Hart 03:38, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Disagree.  The Wiki page could instead include a note that these letters are no longer available on the site.  It should still maintain the history that they existed.--TsuKata 04:00, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

text: *Actually, without any Verifiable source for the material, such info should not be on Wikipedia; otherwise, it is Original Research. Just because it was in this article previously doesn't mean it has any reason to remain. Wikipedia is not a fan site dumping ground.—LeFlyman 17:35, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

text: "that have already been published by reputable publishers." Thus fits with wikipedia's policy, so what's the issue? --81.108.0.100 03:10, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: *The problem is that the content does not exist any longer, and thus is not verifiable. As for whether it was "published by reputable publishers" that may also be disputable. —LeflymanTalk 04:05, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Letters 

message: Since there is only one quote and one external link, shouldn't these sections be titled "Quote" and "External Link" instead?  Or should we leave them the way they are in the spirit that we may someday find another quote or external link? --Kahlfin 19:48, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The MoS, last time I looked, asks for the plural form, regardless of number, but some users disagree with that. IMO it should be plural; people are often lazy in adding links and don't update the header, and thus makes the section look doubly silly in that it has singular with a plural number of links. Coincidentally, www.thehansofoundation.org link is dead or something. Is there a mirror?Dysprosia 05:27, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quotes and External Links 

message: Who is Mr. Friendly?
:Mr. Friendly is one of the Others.  Sawyer referred to him as Zeke at one point.  He had a rather long conversation with a few of the survivors.Coffeeboy 19:41, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mr. Friendly 

message: In Active Projects->Electromagnetism there is an easer egg or secret section - you have to give password to get to persephone.thehansofoundation.org
does anyone else have problems accessing thehansofoundation.org?  i'm using IE 6 (and 7 beta) and i haven't been able to go to the website for a long time.  is the site down or is it just something wrong with my comp?
I have never been able to access it with Firefox (or any other for that matter) browser. Wowlookitsjoe 03:09, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Neither my IE nor my Firefox could ever connect to the site. However you can check the new site out: http://thedharmainitiative.org/ -which links to the video and a LOGIN page. Orientation video new link: http://thedharmainitiative.org/orientation Darth Kevinmhk 11:15, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  accessing website 

message: there was an advert on in the uk for the hanso foundation, with a free-phone number 0800666640
a recording of a call to the number is here
Further to the anonymous addition above, I phoned the number that was broadcast on the advert after the E4 episode aired.  All I got was a message saying that the line has had to be closed, and then directed me to the new website for more info.  Dissonant Unity 00:37, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I phoned the number stated above just after the advert was broadcast in the middle of the E4 episode on 2/5/06. The number was engaged at the first two attempts and then on the third attempt I got through and had the option to press number 1, 2, etc for different options. I pressed number 1 for 'general information' and heard what sounded like nonsense, possibly from foreign languages. But yes I can confirm that calling the number now does just get through to a message saying line closed, etc. Joe 1987 00:46, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK Advert 

message: I have a More in-depth series of recordings of the recent Australian version of the Hanso Foundation phone number (1800227717) here  but I would prefer if it was hosted elsewhere. --Lemming2005 12:51, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe you can upload it to wikimedia commons? (see at the bottom of the wikipedia main page). Joe 1987 17:11, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Australian Freecall Number 

message: The code on this site ("106 98 111 32 117 98 115 32 114 115 110 102 32 102 118 32 102 118 101 71 32 49 32 108 110 90 32 116 117 98 46 83 69 71 32 103 110 32 111 118 32 116 98 73") appears to be ASCII, given the repeated occurance of 32 (ASCII space character). Which means it says (unless I messed up the translation) "jbo ubs rsnf fv fveG 1 lnZ tub.SEG gn ov tbI". What does that mean? Who knows...
- rnicoll, 22:05 UTC, 5th May 2006
:Well, if you reverse that and ROT13 it, you get "Vog ib at TRF.ohg May 1 Tris is safe foh bow", which could be "Got in at THF.org May 1 This is safe for now". But I digress. I think we should keep developments of the Lost Experience ARG on the Lost Experience page, and leave this page simply to document facts about the Hanso foundation, its members and the basics of its website, and an introduction of the ARG. I don't want to tell people what to write, but there's a lot of energy going into Lost pages and it would be nice to have it focused on writing new things into the right articles, rather than duplicating, cutting, moving, etc. things between articles. 86.141.208.51 22:48, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  persephone.thehansofoundation.org 

message: The following sentence was added to the article Vík í Mýrdal (which is an Icelandic village):
Vik Is Also Supposedly A Research Center For The Fictional Hanso Foundation In The TV Series Lost.
I can't find any mentioning of that sort in this article so I removed it, put back if it is actually true. --Bjarki 15:39, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah under the "Mental Health Appeal" section of the website one can find a description of the VIK institute, the "flagship clinic". --Bjarki 15:56, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vík, Iceland 

message: Could it be worth mentioning that when you enter the "wrong" code on the subLYMONal.com website, it gets the Wikipedia entry on the word? Jon Harald Søby 18:57, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: subLYMONal.com

message: The list of sponsor sites on this page was, for all purposes, a duplicate of the more detailed info on Lost Experience. I've merged any extra info bits and kept a bare-bones  list of the sites here. Arru 11:42, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging sponsor sites 

message: Maybe I missed something, but I've never heard of Tom (Mr. Friendly) referred to as "Mr. Temme." Phoenix Song 22:36, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where did this information come from? 

message: There's a problem with using info from the Lost Experience in this article. According to Rachel, Lost (the TV show) exists within the Lost Experience and The Hanso foundation is fictionally represented on the TV show because the real Hanso Foundation paid ABC to include it in a positive light. This article explains what I'm saying a little better. --TorriTorriTalk to me! 02:18, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metafiction problem 

message: Has anyone thought about Asimov's Foundation Trilogy (as was - lots more now) with regard to its "charismatic founder, Hari Seldon"? The science of psychohistory, predicting future events by extrapolating from historic trends, has its origins here. Ultimately, Seldon and his team are exiled to Terminus, to work on The Encyclopaedia Galactica, which will contain the sum of all human knowledge.  The Empire which exiles Seldon et al is described by him as having "lost all the virility it once has." The mayor of Terminus is Salvor Hardin. 
Any thoughts, anyone?--Irony29 18:36, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Foundation 

message: The Hanso Foundation website contained information about an orangutan named Joop.  In the Jules Verne novel "The Mysterious Island" Joop (short for Jupiter) was an orangutan adopted as a pet and mascot by the colonists/castaways.  A hidden benefactor drove Joop's fellow orangutans from the castaway's cave home when the castaways had left to explore the island.  A nice little nod to Mr Verne's work, especially considering some of the plot similarities.
Bryanthebeachboy1970 14:50, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A bit of trivia 

message: I found this picture from the opening of Cloverfield. Look in the bottom right corner and you'll see the logo for the Hanso foundation. I thought someone could put it up on the page. Image: http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b63/deja_vu_2828/cloverfieldlost.jpg Wieners (talk) 22:24, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hanso Foundation in [[Cloverfield]]? 

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:Dharma initiative logo video.jpg

message: From reading this article, the Hanso Foundation and its founder remind me of real-life personality Alfred Nobel. Have any reliable sources also speculated this? If so, it would be good to mention it. Colin MacLaurin (talk) 06:49, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alfred Nobel parallels