A third-generation prototype of a farming machine that weeds by burning out the weeds with lasers. Dunno how close it is to general release but still pretty cool. Would lasers be considered organic?!
Can’t imagine why it wouldn’t be. They’re not going to introduce any chemicals into the ground or nearby plants.
Kills weed?!? What!? Why on earth would you want to …
Oh, that kind of weed. Never mind.
Wait a minute—it’s a farming robot that kills “100,000 weeds an hour” with frickin’ laser beams?
Uh-oh.
"FarmNet is now active…It’s programmed to automatically destroy all weeds! It’s the perfect agricultural defense system!
“Whoa!–FarmNet is learning at a geometric rate! It’s becoming self-aware! It’s concluded…it’s concluded that humans are the TRUE weeds! (We are messing up the climate pretty bad.) Quick, pull the plug–AIEEE! TOO LATE!”
Dammit, I totally misread the title as Wedding…with lasers! and I was all psyched to see what kind of stunt the badass newlywed couple pulled off, until I opened the thread and … oh, weeding. Nevermind.
Anyhow, back on topic, if these lasers leave the weeds’ roots intact, wouldn’t the weeds grow back pretty much right away?
Weeding is like painting the Golden Gate bridge.
Once you finish one pass, you start another one.
I need one of those for our yard.
Seriously.
But imagine if you could do it with lasers.
I heard an old wives tale that if you cut the top off of a plant (weed) and then burn it, it won’t ever grow back. This probably has no basis in reality though.
That’s why it runs 24/7, problem solved.
So somebody went and put lasers on a Roomba? I’m surprised it took this long, tbh.
More so than weed killer, but the lasers are burning organic matter and releasing carbon into the air.
The pedantic definition of “organic” is “contains carbon”. Thus, if you have any, say, electronic components composed of silicon carbide in the laser power system, one could, yes, call it “organic”.
That part it 100% carbon neutral.
Done! I just saw this in the catalog yesterday. We’ve never gotten it previously, and I don’t know why I even looked through it (I read it for the articles, I swear!), and thought that was a weird one.
Wait, a hundred fifty bucks and no laser? Fuck that.
The weeder uses CO2 lasers; does that count?
And it’s not even cordless.
I want one of those Israeli space lasers that start forest fires. But built for smaller projects.
We could put this in the “seemingly good ideas that are actually really bad” thread? LOL