Microwave Pain Ray Keeps Frost From Killing Crops

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."

Comments

Re:This sounds "half baked"

[WrongSizeGlass]

As for other wildlife, I would assume that birds and such would learn to avoid the area the same way people would.

You mean by seeing the bodies of their comrades slow-roasting in the fields?

Re:why do people work for Raytheon?

[RobinEggs]

Holy Christ....assuming you're more than twelve years old you've got to know better than to put out a dozen statistics like that without giving us any clue where they came from. Normally I think what I'm about to say is annoying, self-righteous, and pedantic, but you have truly earned yourself a:

[Citation Needed]