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Pneumatic tube

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First Introduced

"?"

Last Seen

"Live Together, Die Alone"

Owned by

DHARMA Initiative

Found by

Eko and Locke in the Pearl

Used by

Pearl inhabitants

A DHARMA message Tube

Tubes seen behind Jack

Pneumatic tubes are physical transport systems in which cylindrical containers are propelled through a network of tubes by compressed air or by a vacuum. The containers are vehicles for transporting physical objects. Pneumatic tubes were also briefly considered for a subway-like transportation of people, as well as a long-distance postal service. Pneumatic tubes are also known as capsule pipelines.

In Lost

The Pearl station has a pneumatic tube system. In the Pearl Orientation video, Mark Wickmund (a.k.a. Pierre Chang) instructs that the pneumatic tube is to be used to transport data collection notebooks back to "us".

Prior to watching the video, Locke put his drawing of the blast door map in the tube without a capsule. It was sucked up into the tube, showing that it was still working. ("?")

The tube from the Pearl leads to the capsule dump; a dumping ground for capsules. ("Live Together, Die Alone")

Unanswered Questions

• Are the ripped papers found in the DHARMA van notebooks from the Pearl, as Roger and Ben were returning from that station?

External links

• Capsu.org History on capsule pipelines