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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: Laser weeders?!
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:50:39 -0400 (EDT)
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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

-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."