But Ok, I can give you other examples: Both Robert Goddard and Werner Von Braun got hooked up on science and rocketry because they both read War of the Worlds as children. Maybe as adults they no longer believed Martians existed –though if you ask a UFO buff, he might disagree – but I wouldn’t be surprised if they held personal opinions with regards of life on other planets.

The point I’m trying to make is that even engineers were inspired by something in their early age that coached them to pursue a career in engineering. And I’d be willing to bet Mr. Klein was no different.

All true creativity & innovation comes from applying things from a different field on to another in a different never-tried way. And that requires imagination. And imagination is not something that you just shut down when you leave the office.

As a personal aside, when my turn came to choose a career, I was divided between my love for science and my deep artistic sensibilities. I chose to study Design, which might tell you something about my predilection for the ‘excluded middle’ in the Fortean world

The first regular episode of Star Trek aired on Thursday, September 8, 1966.

Klein began work with Doc in 1961, and already had an experimental model of the side-scan sonar working in Boston Harbor by 1966.

Why would he wish to speculate on the possible biological origins or alignments of a cryptid when doing so would be completely out of his field of expertise?

Because that’s what human beings do? we are driven by our dreams and our imagination; and even if engineers prevent their speculations from interfering with their technological expertise, they can still go home at night and ponder like the rest of us

Klein is an engineer.

Why would he wish to speculate on the possible biological origins or alignments of a cryptid when doing so would be completely out of his field of expertise?

It’s alright to speculate if you alert people you’re doing it beforehand

His quotations at the time apply today:

“… real … large … moving … trace indicating that the creature has several segments, body sections or projections such as humps,” said Marty Klein of Klein Associates, and,

“… there are at least TWO large things moving,” said Klein.

I would like to echo the comments above. What does Mr. Klein think today? I’m hoping his visit to the museum indicates that his opinion of the evidence has not changed.

I think the ICM should have some diorama or exhibition that would allow visitors to realize just how massive loch Ness really is, and how incredibly murky its waters are.

Maybe using some goggles designed to insert several layers of ‘smoked’ transparent acrylic, to show the visibility of the loch at different depths? Right now I’m thinking of a sort of wooden box with 2 holes on one end for the eyes, and the other end open. But the top side of the box would have several thin grooves or slots which allow the insertion of 3mm acrylic pieces. Then you would coax the visitor to try to distinguish some target or object –maybe a little plesiousaur toy? – and slowly add the layers to show the different depths.

Cheap, and illustrative