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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. In Soviet Russia... by Hymer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...and most of the former Eastern Europe, they used old T-34 (with turret removed) as tractors in the 1950'ties and 1960'ties.

    No, not the usual "In Soviet Russia..."