Professor Brendan McKay, of the Department of Computer Science at the Australian National University, took up Drosnin's challenge and made extensive computer searches through the English text of Moby Dick.# Using the same method described by Drosnin, McKay claims to have found "predictions" of the assassinations of Indira Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, and others.
UProfesa Brendan McKay, we-Department of Computer Science e-Australian National University, wayamukela inselele kaDrosnin futhi wenza ucwaningo olunzulu lwe-computer embhalweni wesiNgisi we-Moby Dick. * Esebenzisa leyo ndlela echazwe uDrosnin, uMcKay uthi wathola "izibikezelo" zokubulawa kuka-Indira Gandhi, uMartin Luther King, Jr., uJohn F. Kennedy, u-Abraham Lincoln nabanye.