14 DAY TRIAL // A seven-year-old from Queensland, Australia was more than fascinated by the famous animated movie “How To Train Your Dragon” and decided to ask for her own mythical pet. Australian scientists were moved by the little girl's letter requesting a pet dragon and decided to address her an official letter of apology for not being able to fulfill her wish.
Sophie Lester wrote an adorable letter to the Australian national science agency asking them to work on the creation of a pet dragon. She addressed her letter to a “lovely scientist” politely requesting the development of new kind of house animal.
The letter wrote “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.” She already had a plan made up for the new pet, stating that she would call it “Toothless” if it was a girl and “Stuart” in case it was a boy.
The little girl also thought about the environment where she would keep her pet and about the food it would receive, letting the scientists know she has a big green grass area with lots of space for it to enjoy. She would feed it fish and will make it wear a collar as well as put bandages on it if it would ever get hurt.
The adorable letter included a hand drawing of the girl playing with her pet dragon and made its way into the hearts of the science center workers. The only request Sophie had was about the fact that the beast must have a black face.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization quickly responded to the girl's inquiry with an official statement on their website. They wrote that they were sad to let the girl know that, in almost 90 years of research, there were no signs of real dragons and that they failed in their attempt to create the animal.
“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,” the statement wrote.
In order to try to apologize to the little girl, keen to train her own mythical beast, the CSIRO representative told Metro that they are working on building Sophie a 3D printed titanium dragon. Hopefully, it will serve as a substitute pet and the girl will be able to “forgive” the scientists for their failure of creating a real fire breathing beast.