Faraday made a video of Chang:

When did this happen (if it is canon)? Is this proof that Daniel is alive? Well, the creators of Lost have already said that Daniel is truly dead, so, when did this take place?

UPDATE: It appears that Carlton Cuse has gone on record saying that Daniel’s voice in the Chang video is a “continuity error”. That sucks.

The Ajira folk are disciples of Faraday (or DHARMA, or possibly Hawkings). They are going to the donkey wheel to return to 1977 to help Faraday blow up the swan station with the H-Bomb. The box contains drilling equipment to get to the donkey wheel (that has possibly been buried by the Others in the last three years since it was turned).

It’s a Wonderful Lost:

What would happen if the hatch was never built… (and the island was nuked in 1977)

Widmore would still have control over the island (if he survived the blast). Ben would not have been shot by Sayid, thereby not taken to the others and probably would escape with some of the DHARMA people. Inevitably, Penny may not have met Desmond and Desmond would not have felt the need to compete in Widmore’s boating race. Flight 815 would not have crashed, better still, most of the people would not have been on it. Notably Claire, Locke, or Sayid, who were positioned to be on that flight by possible Widmore operatives. Other people, like Hurley, would have never been on the flight in the first place as explained below.

Jack, would return home to bury his father – continue being a spinal surgeon and possibly never fall in love with Kate. Probably make amends with his ex-wife – or become a sad lonely drunk man, like his father.

Kate – would return to the States a fugitive still captured by the marshall. She would be sentenced and spend a few dozen years behind bars.

Sawyer – would return home and never find closure for his parents’ deaths. He could find redemption in his estranged daughter. But like he’s said before, there really isn’t anything for him to go back to.

Hurley – probably would never hear the numbers from Leonard, since the numbers were a product of the DHAMRA people after the swan station. He would never become a millionaire, or meet Libby, or have his father return (because his father only came back for the money, initially). He probably would have remained a pathetic employee of Clucks.

Locke – would have remained a cripple, and would have never gone to Australia to begin with. It was Matthew Abbadon, a employee of Widmore, who put the idea of a Walkabout in Locke’s head. He may have reconciled with Helen, before she died of an aneurysm.

Michael/Walt – It’s quite possible that Susan, Walt’s mother, was hired by a Law firm that worked for Widmore. If this was the case, then Susan would have stayed in New York with Walt. Michael would never have been on that plane. He probably would have had visitation to Walt, too.

Sun/Jin – again, possible that Paik is an affiliate of Widmore. But even if Sun and Jin were on that plane and made it to the states, it’s not certain that their marriage would have lasted beyond that. Plus, their daughter would never be born.

Charlie – well, first of all, Charlie wouldn’t be sleeping with the fishes. Although, that’s not to say he probably would continue being a heroin addict – which means the high probability of him overdosing. But if he did survive and kicked the habit – I would like to think that he started a new musical endeavor, and gone back to that girl he tried to steal from, and possibly become a damn good copier salesman.

Claire – Claire would not have left Australia, since Richard “Psychic” Malkin, who most likely worked for Widmore or Hawking, gave her the plane ticket. She would have remained home, had the baby (named something else, “Aaron” was an on-island decision), and been there when her mother woke up from her coma.

Sayid – would have returned to the states and found Nadia. He would shoot no children, torture no hicks, abused evil masterminds, or killed random people with dishwashers.

Desmond – again, it’s hard to tell if he would have met Penny, since the monastery he tried monkshood with was linked to Hawkings. He would have never joined the military. He would never tried to sail around the world. He would never ended up on the island, pushing a button in the hatch.

Daniel Faraday – probably would have grown up on the island as an Other (possibly the leader, who knows) and become a damn fine pianist. But considering if the island got nuked and he was a ten year old boy, then he would be dead with all the other Others, including Widmore and Hawkings.

Libby worked for Widmore. Thus, she probably wouldn’t be on the plane either.

Of course, if the future does change – then they would never come back to the 1977 island to begin with, so the bomb will never go off. My guess, is that they cap the swan station with concrete – and the future continues as planned, but the explosion somehow sends them back to current day.