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From: awilliam@bnr.ca (Andrew Williams)
Subject: Re: Star Trek IV whales (was Re: The Free Willy Orca Robot: )
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Pranath Fernando (pxf@cs.bham.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <1993Aug31.211634.18053@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>, mark@CS.Stanford.EDU (Mark Hosang Yim) writes:
: > I'm not sure about "free willy", but in "Star Trek IV" the whales that were 
: > shown were robot whales, about 3 or 4 feet in length I think.  One of the guys 
: > involved in the design gave a lecture in a class here at stanford (ME218 
: > smart product design lab).
: > 
: Anyone know what happened to these Robot whales ?

Yes.. Scotty beamed them into the cargo bay of a Klingon ship and took them
to the future.

(I had to say it..)
Andrew Williams
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