Sujet : Re: Laser weeders?!
De : tnusenet17 (at) *nospam* gmail.com (Tony Nance)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 01. Jul 2025, 12:22:38
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On 6/26/25 5:31 PM, Ahasuerus wrote:
On 6/26/2025 8:56 AM, Tony Nance wrote:
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What could go wrong?
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[snip] identify weeds with onboard computers and then kill them
with a laser. …
As Robert Sheckley's "Watchbird" (1953, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ title.cgi?46236) suggested, the interesting question will be "How do you define 'weeds'?"
Aha - thanks for that reference. I hadn't read it before, but thanks to that super spiffy isfdb thingy, I found it on Gutenberg.
Tony