All Summer ABC has been running a web-based game called
The Lost Experience. As you played you were presented with little video pieces, 70 in total, that give, supposedly, background on the Dharma Initiative and the Hanso Foundation. But the most important secret revealed was the secret of Hurley's numbers.
<span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42</span><span class="spoiler_text">The numbers represent the Valenzetti Equation, a mathematical formula having to do with the timetable for humanity's extinction. The show's sinister Dharma Initiative was an effort by the mysterious Hanso Foundation to ward off that inevitability. When Dharma failed, Hanso's nefarious acting leader, Thomas Mittelwerk, set in motion a plan to release a virus that would kill 30 percent of the world's population.</span></span>
Someone on
YouTube (the web's latest Bread and Circuses) has pieced the videos together. If you want more info on the game visit
The Lost Experience .