Sujet : Re: Laser weeders?!
De : dtravel (at) *nospam* sonic.net (Dimensional Traveler)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 02. Jul 2025, 01:40:50
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On 7/1/2025 7:58 AM, Tony Nance wrote:
On 7/1/25 10:18 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
On 7/1/2025 4:24 AM, Tony Nance wrote:
On 6/30/25 9:02 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
On 6/30/2025 8:50 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:31:21 -0400, Ahasuerus
<ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:
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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. …
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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'?"
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Any plant that isn't a soybean -- or whatever else you are
monoculturing.
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What we need is some way to teach goats not to eat soybeans. Then we
might have something.
--scott
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Smarter goats. What could go wrong?
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Maybe we could mount the lasers on the smarter goats.
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You just answered my question, Dr. Evil. :)
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YESSSSSSS!![1]
- Tony
[1] I think.
Hint: Austin Powers
-- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.