Thylacine (2003)
Thylacine
“The rather timid-looking creature was biscuit coloured, and I immediately thought it was a Labrador dog. But there was something strange about the head and face which puzzled me. It was higher and wider across the forehead than a Labrador, and the face was longer and thinner. Perhaps it was just a ‘bitzer’, with some Labrador in it. I was quite alone as my companions had gone off to look for a track leading towards Macquarie Harbour. Not even a bird call, a creaking branch . . . disturbed the p...eace and quiet around us as we continued to stare at each other.
ELIZABETH OKINES, SANDY BAY Uncertainty, confusion and misinformation—deliberate or otherwise—have always been part of the baggage of discovery. Familiar names combined with the words ‘false’ and ‘mistake’ were often applied to the phenomena of the New World. NASA and other space agencies regularly lose, or fatally programme, exploration modules and equipment. Astronomers and astrophysicists are obliged to constantly contradict and overwrite existing theories.MoreLess
ELIZABETH OKINES, SANDY BAY Uncertainty, confusion and misinformation—deliberate or otherwise—have always been part of the baggage of discovery. Familiar names combined with the words ‘false’ and ‘mistake’ were often applied to the phenomena of the New World. NASA and other space agencies regularly lose, or fatally programme, exploration modules and equipment. Astronomers and astrophysicists are obliged to constantly contradict and overwrite existing theories.MoreLess
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