Australia’s national science agency apologizes to girl for failing to create fire-breathing dragon

[Katashi_itto]

Australia’s national science agency has issued a rare apology to a seven-year-old girl for not being able to make her a fire-breathing dragon, blaming a lack of research into the mythical creatures.

The youngster, Sophie, wrote to a “Lovely Scientist” at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), politely asking whether they could make her a winged pet of her own.

“I would call it Toothless if it was a girl and if it is a boy I would name it Stuart,” she wrote in her letter, promising to feed it raw fish and play with it when she wasn’t at school.

Toothless is the name of a dragon befriended by a Viking teenager in the How to Train Your Dragon series of children’s books. The pair also feature in a popular film franchise. Stuart is her father’s name.

ophie’s request prompted an unusual apology from the 87-year-old institution, which admitted “we’ve missed something”.

“There are no dragons,” it said in a blog reply posted on its website this week.

“Over the past 87 odd years we have not been able to create a dragon or dragon eggs,” it said, adding that its scientists had observed dragonflies and even measured the body temperatures of the lizard known as a mallee dragon.

“But our work has never ventured into dragons of the mythical, fire breathing variety. And for this Australia, we are sorry.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/10/australias-national-science-agency-apologises-to-girl-for-failing-to-create-fire-breathing-dragon/

[Donald Ian Rankin]

1. Who is going to be punished for this negligence?

Clearly, heads need to roll, and a well-funded dragon development programme needs to start at once! What do we pay our taxes for? Do we want to develop a dragon gap behind the commies?

[Orrex]

2. It was obviously the deputy chief of staff.

[msanthrope]

3. Thanks, Obama! nt