Lost Theories

Any of you Lostaways out there read Michael Crichton's book Prey? It is a thriller about nanotechnology, and the "villain" of the story is a dust cloud, a swarm of microscopic machines, which can disrupt machinery, invade and infect living things, and even work in a coordinated fashion to perform the tasks and take the lifelike form of larger objects or beings, including humans with which it has come in contact. Like, say, an abducted black kid that talks backwards, perhaps. Or a dead father who's missing from his casket. Or a lethal jungle creature. Or if it wants, just a black cloud of dust.



Scientists control these micro-machines, but eventually (and inevitably) they begin to evolve and adapt and take on a life of their own. They attack humans and eat their flesh, and they learn to reproduce. As Malcolm would say, "Uhh, life finds a way."

The book wasn't that great, but it got me thinking...you have:

A mysterious black dust cloud

Strange appearances by people who couldn't possibly appear

Experiments on the island

Quarantined hatches

People getting sick

All boats or planes in sight crashing into the island

This certainly wouldn't come close to explaining everything happening on the island. I still believe there are spiritual and/or psychological forces at play. Too many weird coincidences for there not to be. But as far as the island's "monster" is concerned, I'm going with nanotechnology.