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One key thing is that flying bugs might be hiding under leaves, which doesn't even require any tracking, but matching their favorite plants... and hopefully sca
by kurthr 5y ago
One key thing is that flying bugs might be hiding under leaves, which doesn't even require any tracking, but matching their favorite plants... and hopefully scaring them with an optical flash so they can be tracked.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoBeacon lights to draw them out?
- snek_case 5y agoShould be possible to modulate the intensity of the laser pretty easily with a modern diode-based laser (so that you can avoid damaging the plant).
- bee_rider 5y agoWe can only take that sort of thinking so far before we reinvent the bug zapper.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoBug zapper at a distance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C5vkbtpdN4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C5vkbtpdN4 https://patents.google.com/patent/US20100186284A1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US20100186284A1/en
- bee_rider 5y agoOh neat, you can even see their horrible little mosquito ghosts go shooting out of their cursed bodies. (it is OK to be completely spiteful toward mosquitos, right? They are like the #1 all-time human killer)
- giuliomagnifico 5y agoI think this system (laser) will work from the ground (where there're the crops) to the sky, before the bugs will touch the leaves, not froun ground to ground level. So there will be no trouble in shoot down the bugs when they're flying some meters above the ground.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoThe bugs will evolve to any weak point, it happened to ford when he tried to industrialize rubber plant production: https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/fordlandia-henry-fords-rubber-match/ https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/fordlandia-... The bugs evolved to live under the leaves.