Family *foreheadslap* moment
Mar. 14th, 2016 02:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterSo, I gave a talk at an intradepartmental seminar last Friday morning, and at the end spent a bit of time chatting with someone who had a whole series of interrelated questions about the cricket nutrition experiments. He mentioned that as an undergraduate he'd worked with one of my postdoc advisors, and he was also familiar with my friend LT's work on male jumping spiders. I went to look him up today and realized another reason why he seemed so eerily familiar. He's a coauthor on a Science paper with my brother.
In this respect, it's also funny how I've wound up working on flying insects.
Edited to add...
In a slightly less forehead-slappy moment, on Friday's BFF ride and visit to Catahoua Coffee,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sytharin said she thinks the future for agriculture holds swarming robots.
The more I think about this idea, the more I like it and am inclined to agree. If they can be built economically, they can operate at a better scale than most conventional industrial farming equipment, both in terms of reducing soil compaction and in terms of financial feasibility for smaller farming operations.
In this respect, it's also funny how I've wound up working on flying insects.
Edited to add...
In a slightly less forehead-slappy moment, on Friday's BFF ride and visit to Catahoua Coffee,
sytharin said she thinks the future for agriculture holds swarming robots.The more I think about this idea, the more I like it and am inclined to agree. If they can be built economically, they can operate at a better scale than most conventional industrial farming equipment, both in terms of reducing soil compaction and in terms of financial feasibility for smaller farming operations.
