Talk:Mittelos Bioscience
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[1] Is this part of TLE/TLE2? It looks very similar to THF.org. login: jburke password: rachel. The video is interesting, as is the Casimir studies on the Observation Island --elpaw 00:53, 8 February 2007 (PST)
"This is article is about canon information about the laboratory shown on the show. For the known (and confirmed) hoax website, see Mittelosbioscience.org. Do not include information on this article from that site."
Confirmed hoax site, Gregg Nations tells us so. But whoever made it did an amazing job with it, especially the video. --Aero*Zeppelin 01:14, 8 February 2007 (PST)
Deleted "octagon" theory -- count the sides, only six people. Thus it is a hexagon. - elifutbol
just to inform you. this post "*'Mittelos' in German translates to "centerless" in English." is rubbish because mittelos is a wort that doesn't exist in german. look it up in the "duden" —The preceding unsigned comment was added by WhatIsHip? (talk • contribs) .
German
The following discussion was moved from the main article. -BearDog 09:34, 9 February 2007 (PST)
*Mittelos means "centerless" in German. **That's not true. The word "mittelos" doesn't exist in German. Look it up in the "duden"
- It's not in the Duden German Dictionary, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. You can form any number of compounds in German by combining word stems and suffixes, and just because they're extremely uncommon doesn't mean they're not correct. It's perfectly possible to combine the noun "Mitte" ("center", "middle", is in the Duden) and the suffix "-los" ("lacking something", is also in the Duden) to form the adjective "mittelos" ("lacking a center"). Just because there are so few things that are lacking a center that this word is hardly ever used doesn't mean it's morphologically incorrect. It's just uncommon. --Hprill 11:19, 15 February 2007 (PST) (linguist and native speaker of German)
- What's your take on the "fundless" meaning and the mittelos/mitelos spelling variations? --~~
- It's really a moot point whether the word itself has some obscure meaning in German, because the important part is just the anagram (confirmed on the podcast as being what we should focus on). --PandoraX 08:30, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- lol I suppose you're right PandoraX. But people have made such a big deal about it that I just have to know for curiousity's sake. ;-) And I guess theoretically just because they pointed out the anagram doesn't mean there couldn't be another meaning - there were other easter eggs in the same episode that they didn't specifically point out because they hadn't brought them up in the Entertainment Weekly article. I wonder if the babelfish people knew how much trouble they've caused! --Jackdavinci 11:11, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- I'm living in Germany my whole life, and I never heard a word like "mittelos". And I never uses such a word. It could be "mittellos", what means poor, out of money or something of value. But I think, that's only a fortuitousness. --Clark Taylor 11:11, 2 May 2007 (PDT)
Mittel(os)werk
thomas mittelwerk started to make his own companies to continue to bring people to the island and do the genetic/biological work that he was talking about in the sri lanka video. --kojak_k Feb 9, 2007
- This would go into the theories, however I can debunk it. Lost is taking place in September - November 2004 currently, the flashbacks are even earlier, and the TLE information was based in Summer 2006... so its unlikely. Plkrtn talk contribs email 01:24, 22 February 2007 (PST)
The "Grass" in the photos
Is it just me or does the grass in the photos look just like cheap astro turf from Home Depot? --Agentskelly 15:49, 9 February 2007 (PST)
Time-agram
I'd like to see a citation on Cuse's confirmation that the anagram has to do with time; i was under the impression that he just said that there was an important anagram hidden somewhere.--Ex-Pope Cardinal Richard Corey 13:58, 12 February 2007 (PST)
- I have found a interesting anagram of 'Mittelos'. I say about that in Mitellos page and in Mittelos/theory page. How do you thing? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mauro (talk • contribs) .
So is this company behind "The Others"?
After One Of Us it seems more like Mittelos is the company that funds and is behind The Others. Every one of us knows how the employees are in the Others tribe on the island etc. so is it fair to say that Mittelos IS essentially The Others? They work for Mittelos? I just thought maybe it should be mentioned in the article or something. Just a thought. Voodoo 19:29, 12 April 2007 (PDT)
- Well, is Mittelos a real company. It is more likely just a cover for the others in the real world. It is just the company used the in real world to recruit. Yes, it is likely that they are the others. But it doesn't to me look like they actually do any real off the island work. Therefore it must be funded by someone something else, which is a good question, where does all the money/funds come from. -Mr.Leaf 19:32, 12 April 2007 (PDT)
Thank you! I'm not the only one who has actually thought of the fact that Mittelos is nothing more than a cover. Why is everybody reading into the Mittelos thing? So far, absolutely NOTHING has happened on the show to imply that Mittelos is anything more than a fake company used as a cover for the Others to recruit.
Another Mittelos' logo
In "One of Us", when Juliet and her sister arrive at Mittelos Bioscience center, you can see, on the building, a lot of bas reliefs showing an hourglass (when the car approaches Mittelos Bioscience center, when Ethan is going to the back of the car for Juliet's baggages, or when there's a shot of the surveillance camera). Can you take a picture of it for the main article? I think is quite important, because an hourglass is a link to "Mittelos/Lost time" anagram. Andreapasotti, 23:49, 15 April 2007
I got the screencapture of the hourglass logo, and I also took a picture of the side of the Mittelos building, showing some shores styled as an ancient egyptian drawing. I think this is definetly something worth discussing about. I'm new to the wiki-editing thing, where should I put those pics? --Pongi 09:00, 19 April 2007 (PDT)
- But that's not the Mittelos building. It's Herarat Aviation. Mittelos is in "Portland". --Gluphokquen Gunih ▲ 22:38, 8 May 2008 (PDT)
click on the "upload file" link on the side of the page and upload your image. then look at another article that has photos and copy the code to put your image into this article, replacing the image name with the new one.--Jackdavinci 15:12, 19 April 2007 (PDT)
Here you are: side of Mittelos building:
A peek of the Mittelos' probable logo:
--Pongi 10:50, 2 May 2007 (PDT)
Mittelos anagram motliest
motliest
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/motliest
mot·ley (mtl) adj. 1. Having elements of great variety or incongruity; heterogeneous: "Most Ivy League freshman classes are chosen from a motley collection of constituencies . . . and a bare majority of entering students can honestly be called scholars" New York Times. 2. Having many colors; variegated; parti-colored: a motley tunic. n. pl. mot·leys 1. The parti-colored attire of a court jester. 2. A heterogeneous, often incongruous mixture of elements.
