Sujet : Re: Laser weeders?!
De : jbeeson (at) *nospam* invalid.net.invalid (Joy Beeson)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 30. Jun 2025, 05:44:37
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:31:21 -0400, Ahasuerus
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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.
-- Joy Beesonjoy beeson at centurylink dot nethttp://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/