abstract
| - The log printout is a stack of hardcopy (paper output) from a dot matrix printer connected to the computer inside the Pearl station. It was discovered by Eko and Locke, who took the printouts back with them just after watching the Pearl Orientation video about monitoring the Swan station's activities. ("?") Upon Locke and Eko's return to the Swan station, Desmond saw the log printout and realized it must be a log of the Swan computer operators pushing the button, the central activity of his life for the past several years. He then searched for the day he caused a system failure in the Swan, the result of failing to push the button in time after he confronted and accidentally killed Kelvin. When he discovered a page on the log with entries labeled "System Failure", he found that these entries were marked with "922044:16". When Locke told him the date of the crash of Flight 815, September 22, 2004, Desmond realized the code was a date and time stamp (9=September, 22= day, 04=2004), suggesting that his system failure somehow caused the crash of Flight 815. ("Live Together, Die Alone, Part 1")
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