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Microwave Pain Ray Keeps Frost From Killing Crops

Posted by kdawson on from the active-frost-denial dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Philip K. Dick's novella Project Plowshare was set in a world where deadly new weapons are 'plowshared' into consumer products. A few years after that book was set, defense giant Raytheon is spinning its raygun-like Active Denial System from a weapon into an agricultural tool to prevent frost from damaging citrus and grape crops."

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  1. why do people work for Raytheon? by FuckingNickName · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    What sequence of moral thoughts goes through their heads?

    I'm interested.

    ("To turns swords into ploughshares" is cynical nonsense, of course - why really? Is it just the money?)