These are just the first twelve I could think of. If you have some of your own, feel free to add them to the comments or something. Hahaha, just kidding. Comments sections on websites are only supposed to be used by racist people.
12. Doesn't Sting have a cellphone or something to call someone? - Never mind. This is a dumb question since this song came out in 1979. My apologies.
11. What is Sting's food supply? - I'm just generally interested. Is he catching fish? Is there a nice rocky shoreline area that he can pull mussels or oysters from? Is he eating coconuts from a tree? Does he have a good fresh water source or is he finding a way to desalinize the sea water?
10. How big is this island that Sting is on anyway? - This question is probably pretty closely related to the last question, as the size of the island would definitely impact the supply of his food and other resources. I mean I guess I'm imagining this as a pretty small island with like one coconut tree or something. But maybe he's on a big ass island like in LOST!
9. What is Sting doing with all these extra 100 billion bottles now? - Well, after a year 100 billion bottles washed up. This question might not be of immediate importance right now - but what is he going to do with all those bottles? Does he have room for that many bottles on an island? I mean it's not like he can just throw them back into the sea again because he'd probably get them mixed up with other un-read bottles. Plus it's probably a hazard to the sealife.
8. Did Sting contemplate suicide? - Speaking of the fact that Sting spent a year on this island all by himself... that has to be pretty depressing, right? Look, I don't want to pry or anything, Sting. I mean I'm glad you pulled through, buddy. But you had to think about ending it all a few times, right? I mean after a few months you had to have some sense of hopelessness.
7. What exactly did Sting write in his message in a bottle? - This song never goes into specifics on what Sting wrote. Presumably it was more than just "SOS," but we aren't given any specifics. I'd assume Sting has some sense of what island he's on, right? Because if he doesn't... then he can't even send directions on how they can find him. I just want to know more about the message, since the entire song is about it!
6. Where did Sting get the bottle, note and pen from? - It's pretty interesting that Sting just happened to have a bottle, a working pen, and something that he could use to write a note on when he (presumably) was shipwrecked or whatever. That's a pretty convenient set of things to send a message with, honestly. Was anything else left with him? A flare gun?
5. How did Sting get lost on an island? - Above I just assumed that this was a shipwreck, but Sting never went into specifics on this either. Just what happened to Sting to get him on this island? He calls himself a "castaway," so does that mean he was actually abandoned by some shipmates?
4. Did Sting really count all the bottles out and is it really 100 billion? - Because that seems like a lot.
3. Are all 100 billion messages really from other castaways? - The world's population was only 4.3 billion in 1979. It would therefore be impossible for there to be 100 billion unique castaways. Okay, so maybe on average every castaway sent around 23-24 bottles. But that would still mean every single other human being on earth would need to be castaways on islands. There aren't that many islands!
2. Did Sting have time to read all 100 billion messages? - If Sting only spent one second on every message, it would still take him 3,170 years to read 100 billion messages. I'm assuming that maybe after the first few hundred messages he just guessed that the rest were also messages from other castaways without bothering to read them.
1. How did all 100 billion bottles coincidentally wash up the same day? - This one bugs me the most. Even with this many bottles out there (it is A LOT of bottles), you'd think that a couple hundred or thousand of bottles would maybe coincidentally wash up a day, every day, frequently. But zero bottles for an entire year and then suddenly 100 billion? Highly unlikely. Even if a ship specifically only carrying bottled messages crashed nearby, I still think they wouldn't all wash up at once.
12. Doesn't Sting have a cellphone or something to call someone? - Never mind. This is a dumb question since this song came out in 1979. My apologies.
11. What is Sting's food supply? - I'm just generally interested. Is he catching fish? Is there a nice rocky shoreline area that he can pull mussels or oysters from? Is he eating coconuts from a tree? Does he have a good fresh water source or is he finding a way to desalinize the sea water?
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| Probably like this, right? |
9. What is Sting doing with all these extra 100 billion bottles now? - Well, after a year 100 billion bottles washed up. This question might not be of immediate importance right now - but what is he going to do with all those bottles? Does he have room for that many bottles on an island? I mean it's not like he can just throw them back into the sea again because he'd probably get them mixed up with other un-read bottles. Plus it's probably a hazard to the sealife.
8. Did Sting contemplate suicide? - Speaking of the fact that Sting spent a year on this island all by himself... that has to be pretty depressing, right? Look, I don't want to pry or anything, Sting. I mean I'm glad you pulled through, buddy. But you had to think about ending it all a few times, right? I mean after a few months you had to have some sense of hopelessness.
7. What exactly did Sting write in his message in a bottle? - This song never goes into specifics on what Sting wrote. Presumably it was more than just "SOS," but we aren't given any specifics. I'd assume Sting has some sense of what island he's on, right? Because if he doesn't... then he can't even send directions on how they can find him. I just want to know more about the message, since the entire song is about it!
6. Where did Sting get the bottle, note and pen from? - It's pretty interesting that Sting just happened to have a bottle, a working pen, and something that he could use to write a note on when he (presumably) was shipwrecked or whatever. That's a pretty convenient set of things to send a message with, honestly. Was anything else left with him? A flare gun?
5. How did Sting get lost on an island? - Above I just assumed that this was a shipwreck, but Sting never went into specifics on this either. Just what happened to Sting to get him on this island? He calls himself a "castaway," so does that mean he was actually abandoned by some shipmates?
4. Did Sting really count all the bottles out and is it really 100 billion? - Because that seems like a lot.
3. Are all 100 billion messages really from other castaways? - The world's population was only 4.3 billion in 1979. It would therefore be impossible for there to be 100 billion unique castaways. Okay, so maybe on average every castaway sent around 23-24 bottles. But that would still mean every single other human being on earth would need to be castaways on islands. There aren't that many islands!
2. Did Sting have time to read all 100 billion messages? - If Sting only spent one second on every message, it would still take him 3,170 years to read 100 billion messages. I'm assuming that maybe after the first few hundred messages he just guessed that the rest were also messages from other castaways without bothering to read them.
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| What a depressing tale of maritime pollution. |
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