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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: Laser weeders?!
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:02:10 -0700
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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:
>>
>>> 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
> 
Smarter goats.  What could go wrong?

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