Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

These experts are killing themselves "by degrees" ... if there's a harder,
more complicated, more expensive way of doing anything, they'll find it and
charge you for it. Their tunnel vision is amazing. Like it never dawned on
them that robots and automation require expensive resources and energy, and
puts people out of work, when we already have intelligent, autonomous
bipeds that can produce their own energy from the fields and reproduce
themselves. They're called people.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 4/10/2009 at 10:49 AM Pete Vukovich wrote:

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>"Agriculture contributes a lot of damage to the land, the soil, the
>water and the environment," Rus said. "So if we can figure out a way of
>using robots and automation to deliver nutrients to plants —
>pesticides, fertilizers, water when it's needed — instead of sort
of
>mass spreading them, then we hope we would have an impact on the
>environment."
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>Great quote from a guy whose never left the cement. Arrogant universities
>with self appointed experts do a lot more damage to the soil, land, and
>water Rus. Perhaps MIT should build robots to replace college professors
>and spread your pesticides there, you've already got an ample load of
>uncomposted fertilizer so you've got that covered. This was remniscent of
>the USDA's 1960's vision of farmer free farms,
>where buttons were pushed to make giant machines magically grow and
>harvest crops - allowing the farmer ample time to revel in the wonder
>of technology.  While were at it lets have farmers grow robots, this
will
>eliminate the need for college generated technical experts - who would
>then be free to revel in the wonder of unmolested agriculture.
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