Alvar Hanso

Alvar Hanso

Alvar Hanso is the Danish CEO & Founder of the Hanso Foundation and the Hanso Group. He addressed the UN Security Council in 1967. He is featured narrating a 1975 DHARMA Orientation Film, introducing the project to recruits. Apparently, he bought every copy of Gary Troup's book The Valenzetti Equation and all rights to a reprint. Persephone (from the The Lost Experience) has suggested that Alvar Hanso's last public appearance was in 2002. According to his appearance in the Norway Video he was being held "prisoner" by Thomas Mittlewerk in Narvik, Norway from that time until the present day.

According to DJ Dan Alvar Hanso is estimated to be 112 years old, putting his birth year somewhere around 1894, assuming Dan's info is correct. He is the grandson of Magnus Hanso. It has however also been confirmed in Rachel Blake's final video that he is indeed her father.

He is portrayed by Ian Patrick Williams.

Bio

Alvar Hanso (from the Hanso Foundation website)

"Driven by a need for privacy and a deep-seated sense of humility, Alvar Hanso has released few details of his personal life to the public.

He first made his mark during the Second World War, providing munitions to various resistance movements around Europe. After the War, Hanso became the leading purveyor of high-technology armaments to NATO.

After decades of keeping the world safe through the development of sophisticated weapons systems, Hanso turned his attention to critical areas of science and technology - always searching for new ways to improve the human experience, and create a brighter future for all humanity.

Still running his vast network of companies, Hanso has set new standards for philanthropy and the support of pure scientific research for the betterment of the entire race. " -thehansofoundation.org

Current Status

• Recent whereabouts: According to the Norway Video, Alvar Hanso was being kept "prisoner" by Thomas Mittlewerk in Narvik, Norway.
• Traveled to a number of European countries prior to 2002, and has not been seen in public since.
  • London June 14, 2000
  • Copenhagen, September 11, 2000
  • Copenhagen Jan 1, 2001
  • Paris Feb 23, 2001
  • Geneva July 7, 2001
  • Rome Sept 18, 2001
  • Madrid, Dec 31, 2002
• According to Dr. Eliza Vasquez, has something very unusual in his bloodwork which may have serious consequences on his health.

Sri Lanka Video

Alvar Hanso as featured in the Sri Lanka Video, and also known by the fan nickname "Mr. Beardy".

Alvar Hanso appears in the video being compiled at Hansoexposed.com. This video of him is from around 1975. He seems to be playing the role of an orientator in a general orientation film for the DHARMA Initiative. Before it was revealed to be him, the character in the video was commonly known as Mr. Beardy by fans.

Transcript from the Video

“

I'm Alvar Hanso. If you are watching this film, you already know and have worked with Gerald and Karen DeGroot, founders and masterminds of the DHARMA initiative. By now, you also know there are many research goals for our joint venture. What you may not know is why we have assembled the DHARMA initiative; why we have assembled the greatest minds in the world and given them unlimited funds and access. As with all you've already been told, you are bound by your honor and commitment to keep what you are about to hear a secret. In a few weeks, after your induction counseling and survival training, you and your colleagues will be shipped to a top secret facility. The precise location of the facility is known only to myself, the DeGroots, and the few high ranking members of my organization. Why all the security, all the secrecy? The answer is simple. The research is intended to do nothing less than save the world as we know it. In 1962, only thirteen years ago, the world came to the brink of nuclear war. The United States and the Soviet Union almost fulfilled the promise of mutual assured destruction. A promise they continue to foster through a destructive Cold War. After the Cuban Missile Crisis, both nations decided to find a solution. The result, was the Valenzetti Equation. Commissioned under the highest secrecy, through the U.N. Security Council, the equation is the brainchild of the Italian mathematician Enzo Valenzetti. It predicts the exact number of years and months until humanity extinguishes itself. Whether through nuclear fire, chemical and biological warfare, conventional warfare, pandemic, over-population, his results are chilling, and attention must be paid. Valenzetti gave numerical values to the core environmental and human factors in his equation: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42. Only by manipulating the environment, by finding scientific solutions to our problems, we will be able to change those core factors, and give humanity a chance to survive. Although the equation has been buried by those who commissioned it, ...panic. It has always been my belief that we ignore warnings at our own peril; and thus, the DHARMA Initiative was born. DHARMA is an acronym for Department of Heuristics And Research on Material Applications. It also stands for the one true way...and through your research, you will help human[ity.] We have constructed several stations on the island, underground laboratories with the facilities you will need to do your research, with optimal expediency. All of the support you will need, including regular medicine and food drops will be made in perpetuity. A radio transmitter has also been erected on the island, broadcasting in a frequency and encryption known only to us. The transmitter will only broadcast the core numerical values of the Valenzetti Equation. When, through your research, you manage to change the numerical value of any one of these factors; when you have created through science the [unaudible], we will know that the one true way has been found. That is the work to which you have committed yourself. Change the core values of the Valenzetti Equation, and you will change the course of destiny. The fate of the human race is in your hands. Thank you and namaste.

”

Bad Twin Book Info

In Chapter 23, in an apparent new change in the board at Widmore Corporation, Alvar Hanso was replaced by Thomas Mittelwerk.

Alvar Hanso Quotes

The following quotes have been attributed to Alvar Hanso.

• "I am very proud to be working with such a brilliant team, who all inspire me every single day as we forge our way towards a brighter future. The expertise and dedication of the team constantly surpass my expectations." -thehansofoundation.org Television Ad.
• "From the dawn of our species, Man has been blessed with curiosity. Our most precious gift, without exception, is the desire to know more—to look beyond what is accepted as the truth and to imagine what is possible." —Alvar Hanso, Address to the United Nations Security Council, 1967, posted on first iteration of thehansofoundation.org Website and partially quoted by Tom.
• "To preach the limited mind is to foreclose on the promise of our future." -thehansofoundation.org landing page.
• "A society should not merely be measured by its brightest lights, but on how the brightest light the way for those who cannot shine for themselves." -MHA section of thehansofoundation.org Website.
  • May be relevant to Hurley's particular affliction or simply the way in which the castaways are all emotionally and spiritually lost souls.
  • May be relevant to the chasm between "the best and the brightest" (exemplary men like Jack) and those who struggle in life (just about everyone else).
• "Prevention is the number one reason people live longer lives today. The time has come for everyone in our world to understand how a minimum investment of time and effort can lead to a vastly longer and happier life." -WWPDP section of thehansofoundation.org Website.
• If Rachel Blake has been captured, and Mittelwerk has deposed Hanso as the leader of The Hanso Foundation, then it is possible that it is Hanso who is running the experience, as evidenced by all of the URLs, like hansoexposed.com and whereisalvar.com.
  • Note: This seems to be a nod to the "vaccine" profered by Ethan Rom to protect Claire's baby.

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But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveler returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others we know not of.

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• "The future need not be an undiscovered country. Through science and technology we can turn our inexorable forward motion into a safe journey into a well-charted haven of tranquility." -MFI section of thehansofoundation.org Website.
  • The phrase "undiscovered country" comes from a soliloquy in Shakespeare's Hamlet and refers to the unknown that comes after death:
  • Ostensibly an allusion to Star Trek as well.
• "To understand how our world is going, we must first seek to understand how the world was made." -ERI section of thehansofoundation.org Website.
• "Given enough time, there is no end to what human beings can accomplish, no frontiers we cannot cross, and no experiences that we cannot live to pass on to future generations" -LEP section of thehansofoundation.org Website.

Theories

• Hanso embedded military ties within the DHARMA Initiative. We only know two DHARMA members, Kelvin and Desmond, to be former military officials with different attitudes towards authority. This alludes to the assumption that Radzinsky also, at some point in his life, was a part of the military.
  • More to this is the US Army Knife Ana Lucia found on one of the Others, and possibly the German handgun Tom threatens Kate with.
  • Desmond was not an explicit member of Dharma. Kelvin mistakenly thought he was one half of the Swan replacement team, but this was not the actual case. Ostensibly, Desmond took responsibility for pushing the button with Kelvin because his boat was wrecked and the importance of the task.
• Hanso is Him, the leader of The Others, mentioned by Tom and the faux Henry Gale. Extending the Oz metaphor sometimes connected with the series, this would make Alvar Hanso "the man behind the curtain" aka the Wizard.
• The name "Hanso" is likely spelled "Hansø" in Danish. The literal translation of "hans ø" from Danish is "his island".
• Possibly named after Hans Ørsted, a Danish physicist and chemist whose discoveries inspired the development of electromagnetic theory and the ØRSTED satellite.
• On the Hanso Foundation Website under the biography of Alvar Hanso, the date under the photo is October 28th, 2003. However, it is the same photo from the Swan Orientation Film, which was supposedly made long before 2003. Is there an explanation for this? -> They just don't want to reveal who Hanso really is?
  • October 28th, 2003 was the date of an extremely massive solar flare (third largest on record) that was expected to cause "a major geomagnetic storm", as it was aimed directly at the Earth. [1]
  • October 28th, 2001 is the date listed under an image of what appears to be an aurora borealis in the Electromagnetic Research Initiative section of the thehansofoundation.org site.
  • October 28th, 1984 is written on the blast door as the suspected "system shutdown" date.
• "hansa" is Vedic Sanskrit for "swan." The repeated word "namaste" on the Hanso website is originally from Sanskrit.
• The name "Hanso" and the fact he was a weapons manufacturer may be a reference to legendary Japanese swordsmith Hattori Hanzo.
• "Alvar" is an anagram of "Valar"
• Or it could be a reference to Alvar Aalto, Alvar Fáñez de Minaya, Alvar Larsson, Alvar Liddell, or Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca.
• The man who appears in video on Hansoexposed.com is the real Alvar Hanso, whereas the man who appears in the window is merely the actor who plays him in the show. This would explain his drastically different appearence, and is backed up by Rachel Blake's appearence at Comic-con this year
  • To support this theory, on occasion, the characters in the lost experience have been played by different actors in the show lost. For example, If you consider the possibility that Turbine man is Gary Troup (On the grounds that the senior vice president of marketing of ABC said: "Troup can be seen being sucked into an airplane engine in the first episode.") this would follow the same pattern because the actor in the book interview is a different actor to the Troup in the first episode. If this is true, if Rachel Blake was to come to the island in series 3, she could be a different actor to that playing rachel blake in podcast videos.

External Links

• The Hanso Foundation