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DHARMA
- Now that all DHARMA members on the island are dead, the jamming is keeping DHARMA from sending more people to the island.
Purpose
- The Looking Glass not only jams the radio signals, but it forms a mirror bubble around the Island that is "painted" with the view of the ocean thus concealing the Island from any rescue attempts.
- The Looking Glass is a portal to the outside world. The other opening of the portal is 32 miles outside of Portland, near where Ben was born and where Mittelos is located.
- The Looking Glass is the control station for the entire island which is why it is in such a remote location (ie It would be nearly impossible to reach it unless you already knew where it is, much like the island itself.
- It is a variation of the Pearl station that observes the entire island including all hatches and the others/hostiles
- The Looking Glass refers to the facility as a reverse fish aquarium where DHARMA researchers would look through the walls of the plastic/glass tube to make scientific observations.
- Still on the blast door map, the Looking Glass as a radio jamming station forms part of the Cerberus system. The catastrophic failure of Cerberus mentioned on the map at some point caused part or all of the station to flood.
- This station brings people to and from the Island through a portal of sorts. The sub docks in the moon pool, gets hoisted out of the water, and the journey begins. For Juliet's ride she was only asleep for an hour or so, and the "bumpy ride" was literally the whole ride. This also explains why Ben would tell Juliet it was flooded, he doesn't want her to know they got to the Island through the Looking Glass.
- The Looking Glass is station 'C4' on the blast door map. Its purpose is 'Cryptography, and Communications Analysis'. Through Dharmatel connections to the Flame, Radio Tower and other island resources, and using its own equipment it can: jam,scramble/encrypt,intercept/block/route, and monitor communications locally and to the outside world as needed. Its underwater location helps it to block the magnetic disturbances caused by the nearby mountains, evade local detection and act as the guidance beacon for the submarine. After the discharge, under Ben's orders, the LG began to disrupt communications - but he lied to his people blaming the discharge.
- "C4" is from "C4I" meaning "Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence;" the "4" was at one time a superscript and possibly before that a subscript, but it was easier to type "C4I" than stop to select the special character. Based on this, the Looking Glass was the real headquarters of the DHARMA Inititive on the Island. Newcomers arrived at the island near the Barracks because they did not have a need to know about the Looking Glass.--Jim 08:51, 8 May 2008 (PDT)
- The Looking Glass previously allowed entry to the island because it was where the transponder that allowed the sub to find the island was located and maintained before the destruction of the Swan damaged it. Ben may have told the Others that it was flooded to deter attempts to repair the transponder, because he wants to island to remain hidden.
- The logo found on the Looking Glass schematic displays a clock and a rabbit. This strengthens the theory that the rabbit shown in the Orchid orientation film was in fact sent through time.
Cable
- The cable on the beach is actually the anchor, seen in the schematic, and is used to tether the station to shore.
- On the schematic, diagram "C" shows the cable/anchor running to an exposed box on the beach, yet the cable that the Losties are familiar with runs up the beach into the jungle some distance and then goes straight under ground. We have never seen the power box shown on the Looking Glass Hatch schematic.
- The cable runs to the tower, which may be located at the best place on the island for communications. By the way, the best place is not necessarily the highest place.
Signal Jamming
- In "The Long Con", Sayid and Hurley use a radio found in The Arrow to pick up signals, which were supposedly being blocked by the station, indicating it is spotty in its jamming. They picked up WXR radio.
- Ben may have started jamming signals after the hatch implosion when the island became briefly visible. Tom said that communications went out after "the sky turned purple". Ben later admitted to jamming communications to Mikhail.
Miscellaneous Theories
- The time on the face of the clock in the Looking Glass logo is 8:15, which suggests a connection to Oceanic Flight 815, the plane that the survivors crashed in.
- The schematic Sayid picked up at The Flame was a decoy left by the others when they deserted the Barracks.
- The two DHARMA logos are different because there are two Looking Glass stations in two different locations. A "Black" one and a "White" one. The one Charlie swam into is not the one represented on Sayid's diagram.
- The Looking Glass is one of the unknown or crossed out stations on the blast door map. Kelvin and Radzinsky might have received knowledge of its "flooding", declared it a lost cause and crossed it off. The other possibility for the crossed off station could be The Door, due to its questionable nature as a real DHARMA facility.
- The name of the station is a metaphor for the experience of coming to the Island. If, as is suggested above, The Looking Glass obscures the view of the Island from the outside world, arriving on the island is literally "going through the looking glass."
- The Looking Glass may be the only place where if conception takes place, you are far enough away from The Island's force to not be effected by the manifestation of Ben's self-inflicted "Mother Dying At Child Birth" problem. And this further backs up the fact that Bonnie could be Annie.
- How do we know the "Mother Dying At Child Birth" problem was created by Ben?
