The shell reached its target; it hit the animal, but not in the usual fashion-it bounced off that rounded surface and vanished into the sea two miles out.
But the final, almost-fatal blow for the sphenodontians was the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event 66 million years ago, the one that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs.
As a result the covid calamity will prompt a long-overdue phase of technological and social experimentation, neither business as usual nor a fatal blow to the office.