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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: Laser weeders?!
Date: 26 Jun 2025 13:31:40 GMT
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In article <103jg2q$3edjs$1@dont-email.me>,
Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>What could go wrong?
>
>Commercial laser weeders are being used in agriculture on the West Coast 
>of the United States. These are large machines that pass over crops, 
>take photos, identify weeds with onboard computers and then kill them 
>with a laser. …
>
>"Shooting lasers at foes is the stuff of science fiction, but now, a few 
>farmers are fighting one of their greatest nemeses with a new 
>technology—laser weeders. ... "
>
>https://phys.org/news/2025-06-lasers-common-herbicides-zapping-east.html
>
>

As long as they're not frickin' laser beams we are probably OK.
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