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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. Re:Okay... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Yo dawg, we heard you like microwaved food so we pre-microwaved your food so you can post-microwave it after we pre-microwave it.