Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Marty Kraft <martyk@allspecies.org>]

Robots, another way to separate ourselves from all we were born to  
love. Instead, connect ever more deeply, now.
http://www.allspecies.org/ideas/clever.htm

Marty
On Apr 10, 2009, at 9:22 PM, Tradingpost wrote:

> 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:
>
> > http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090410/ap_on_hi_te/ 
> > tec_robotic_gardeners
> >
> > "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."
> >
> > 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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