Sujet : Re: Laser weeders?!
De : bliss-sf4ever (at) *nospam* dslextreme.com (Bobbie Sellers)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 30. Jun 2025, 06:17:07
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On 6/29/25 21:44, Joy Beeson 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:
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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. …
Weeds with an onboard computer! !! Mad scientists have gone too far.
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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'?"
Any plant that isn't a soybean -- or whatever else you are
monoculturing.
bliss