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you got any idea where psychic cetaceans talk to space aliens came from? I know it ended in Ecco the Dolphin and off-brand lisa...

talkinggorillabutler asked: you got any idea where psychic cetaceans talk to space aliens came from? I know it ended in Ecco the Dolphin and off-brand lisa frank school supplies, but where was it before Star Trek IV?

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kontextmaschine:

Whale communication first came to wide attention with Songs of the Humpback Whale in 1970. And got mixed with other far-out period themes of nonhuman intelligence, I guess.

Dolphin communication was popularized by John Lilly in the ‘60s, which is why Ecco the Dolphin is named after Lilly’s ‘Earth Coincidence Control Office’.