Re: Laser weeders?!

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Sujet : Re: Laser weeders?!
De : dtravel (at) *nospam* sonic.net (Dimensional Traveler)
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Date : 01. Jul 2025, 02:02:53
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On 6/30/2025 9:38 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
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:
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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'?"
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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
 My grandfather (b. 1903) grew soybeans.  He was what today would be called
an organic farmer - he didn't use herbicides (or fertilizers - he preferred
crop rotation using alfalfa to replenish N2 in the soil).
 That meant us kids spent summers walking the beanfields with a curved corn
knife, whacking ragweed, lambs quarters and other undesirable growths.
 Can't say it was fun.   Trained goats would be preferred - although today, robotics
would likely be a more productive path to take.
 https://farm.bot/
Goats would be cheaper I suspect.
--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.

Date Sujet#  Auteur
26 Jun 25 * Laser weeders?!17Tony Nance
26 Jun 25 +* Re: Laser weeders?!3ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
26 Jun 25 i+- Re: Laser weeders?!1Tony Nance
27 Jun 25 i`- Re: Laser weeders?!1Jay Morris
26 Jun 25 `* Re: Laser weeders?!13Ahasuerus
27 Jun 25  +- Re: Laser weeders?!1WolfFan
30 Jun 25  +* Re: Laser weeders?!10Joy Beeson
30 Jun 25  i+- Re: Laser weeders?!1Bobbie Sellers
30 Jun 25  i`* Re: Laser weeders?!8Scott Dorsey
1 Jul 25  i +* Re: Laser weeders?!6Dimensional Traveler
1 Jul 25  i i`* Re: Laser weeders?!5Tony Nance
1 Jul 25  i i `* Re: Laser weeders?!4Dimensional Traveler
1 Jul 25  i i  `* Re: Laser weeders?!3Tony Nance
2 Jul 25  i i   `* Re: Laser weeders?!2Dimensional Traveler
2 Jul 25  i i    `- Re: Laser weeders?!1Tony Nance
1 Jul 25  i `- Re: Laser weeders?!1Dimensional Traveler
1 Jul 25  `- Re: Laser weeders?!1Tony Nance

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