Re: Laser weeders?!

Joy Beeson  <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:31:21 -0400, Ahasuerus
<ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:
>

On 6/26/2025 8:56 AM, Tony Nance wrote:

 
What could go wrong?
 
[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'?"

>
Any plant that isn't a soybean -- or whatever else you are
monoculturing.

What we need is some way to teach goats not to eat soybeans.  Then we
might have something.
--scott

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