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  2. From: peacock5293@iscsvax.uni.edu (Greywolf)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.fan.furry
  4. Subject: Re: Assorted Thoughts on a "Furry" World Setting
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov23.150819.8944@iscsvax.uni.edu>
  6. Date: 23 Nov 92 15:08:19 -0600
  7. References: <1992Nov19.143336.8860@iscsvax.uni.edu>  <1992Nov22.184100.8929@iscsvax.uni.edu> <1992Nov22.224402.5770@desire.wright.edu>
  8. Organization: University of Northern Iowa
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  11. In article <1992Nov22.224402.5770@desire.wright.edu>, jdemers@desire.wright.edu writes:
  12. > In article <1992Nov22.184100.8929@iscsvax.uni.edu>, peacock5293@iscsvax.uni.edu (Greywolf) writes:
  13. >> In article <1992Nov22.114636.4544@netcom.com>, foxen@netcom.com (Foxen) writes:
  14. >>> peacock5293@iscsvax.uni.edu (Greywolf) writes:
  15. >>>>
  16. >>>>What's a "Tyrell" corporation?  (Is this a reference to some sf or fantasy book
  17. >>>>that I haven't read but just about everybody else has?)
  18. >>> 
  19. >>> The Tyrell Corporation is a corporation in the movie "Blade Runner" (based on
  20. >>> Phillip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep").  They are the
  21. >>> creators of the "Replicants", or what amount to organic androids.  The
  22. >> 
  23. >> Thanks for the info. =)  Yes, I've seen the movie some time ago, but the name
  24.  
  25. {deletedeletedelete...  We don't need *all* of this, do we?}
  26.  
  27. >> and, if so, do they go through a normal childhood stage, or do they just pop
  28. >> out fully-grown mature adults?
  29.  
  30. > didn't have any of the experiances that normals have becasuse they were
  31. > 'decanted' fully grown.  Watch it near the end, Ruger Huars (sp?) charactor
  32. > goes into that in his final speech.
  33.  
  34. However, I got the impression that somehow the replicant that Harrison Ford's
  35. character falls in love with was "implanted" with the memories of a "real"
  36. girl.
  37. -- 
  38. -Jordan            ..      PEACOCK5293@iscsvax.uni.edu
  39.                   .OO.     Jordan Peacock (Jordan Greywolf)
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