# I'll send an S.O.S. to the world...131 years from now **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 8, 2018, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-send-an-s-o-s-to-the-world-131-years-from-now/810233 "2018-03-08T12:37:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-send-an-s-o-s-to-the-world-131-years-from-now/810233/1 "2018-03-08T12:37:47Z")
[After 131 Years, Message in a Bottle Found on Australian Beach](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/world/australia/australia-oldest-message-bottle.html) > [@](#): > > The bottle had been tossed into the Indian Ocean from the ship as part of a decades-long experiment by the German Naval Observatory to understand ocean currents. > > Thousands of bottles were thrown into the ocean around the world from German ships between the 1860s and the 1930s, each with a form bearing the date and location where it had been tossed into the sea, the name of the ship, its home port and the travel route, the Western Australian Museum said. > > The back of each note, including the one found by Mrs. Illman, politely asked whoever found the bottle to write when and where it had been found and to return it to the German Naval Observatory in Hamburg or to the nearest German Consulate. > > The last time one of these bottles was found, and the note sent back to Germany, was in 1934. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-send-an-s-o-s-to-the-world-131-years-from-now/810233/2 "2018-03-08T14:18:07Z")
I am assuming the note did not say “need answer fast”. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-send-an-s-o-s-to-the-world-131-years-from-now/810233/3 "2018-03-08T14:32:56Z")
[This article](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-43299283) has a picture of the handwriting comparison, which is a perfect match. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-send-an-s-o-s-to-the-world-131-years-from-now/810233/4 "2018-03-08T14:55:50Z")
When I saw the headline for this story yesterday, I was really hoping the message was going to be “Tamam Shud”. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-send-an-s-o-s-to-the-world-131-years-from-now/810233/5 "2018-03-08T15:17:39Z")
Ah, nostalgia. The old internetz were very slow. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-send-an-s-o-s-to-the-world-131-years-from-now/810233/6 "2018-03-08T16:49:41Z")
…So, _did_ the finders contact the Hamburg Naval Observatory? They’ve got some researchers there who are getting very impatient to publish. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@MonkeyCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyCat)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-send-an-s-o-s-to-the-world-131-years-from-now/810233/7 "2018-03-10T16:01:54Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Ah, nostalgia. The old internetz were very slow. Ha. 🙂 Do you remember dial-up? That was certainly fun. On a related note, [this site](https://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm) hasn’t been updated since 1996. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-send-an-s-o-s-to-the-world-131-years-from-now/810233/8 "2018-03-12T21:58:59Z")
Before dial-up, there was wash-up. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-send-an-s-o-s-to-the-world-131-years-from-now/810233/9 "2018-03-13T18:23:20Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > [After 131 Years, Message in a Bottle Found on Australian Beach](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/world/australia/australia-oldest-message-bottle.html) Well, if backwards time travel is possible in 131 years, might not be a bad idea.