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  • From: Marty Kraft <martyk@allspecies.org>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] robot gardening
  • Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:43:59 -0500

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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