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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Laser weeders?!
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2025 07:24:14 -0400
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On 6/30/25 9:02 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> 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?
> 

Maybe we could mount the lasers on the smarter goats.