Australian Scientists Issue Brilliant Apology To Little Girl For Failing To ‘Make Her A Dragon’

Sophie Lester wrote a letter to scientists in Australia asking if they could 'make her a dragon'. The seven-year-old from Queensland addressed the adorable letter, "hello lovely scientist". She then added  ‘Would it be possible if you can make a dragon for me? I would like it if you could but if you can’t that’s fine. ‘I would call it “Toothless” if it was a girl and if it is a boy I would name it “Stuart”. Sophie also included a diagram of what her ideal dragon would look like, indicating that the face of her pet should be black. Staff at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation responded with a fairly epic statement on their website. ’We’ve been doing science since 1926 and we’re quite proud of what we have achieved. But we’ve missed something. There are no dragons. ‘Over the past 87 odd years we have not been able to create a dragon or dragon eggs. We have sighted an eastern bearded dragon at one of our telescopes, observed dragonflies and even measured body temperatures of the mallee dragon. But our work has never ventured into dragons of the mythical, fire breathing variety. ‘And for this, Australia, we are sorry.’ A representative from the organisation also said that they will make Sophie a 3D printed titanium dragon.