Pushing the button/Theories

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• Pushing the button is some sort of dead-man's switch. Once the scientists are done with their work (or have left the island or are dead), the discharge is supposed to happen.
  • Though, 108 minutes would not be enough time for any researcher to 'get clear' of the electromagnetic discharge.
• Naturally, pushing the button is all about venting the electromagnetic energy as to prevent a massive magnetic discharge that could damage/destroy the whole island. As Mikhail Bakunin mentions in Enter 77, the members of the Dharma Initiative intiated an offensive against "the hostiles", presumably the Others sometime in the past. Perhaps this event (a.k.a. The Incident?) would have led to the implementation of this "dead-man's switch". In case of the invasion of the Swan by the Others, they would not no the code to input, and would consequently be killed.