Astronomers vs. Robot Lawnmowers?!
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by DZM admin
File under "headlines that make utterly no sense until you read the article..."
Why Astronomers Hate iRobot's New Robotic Lawnmower
The robotic vacuums we all know and love ensure we don’t have to clean
our own homes ourselves to get them spotless. (God forbid.) Now, the
Roomba’s maker, iRobot, wants to do for lawn care what it did for
vacuuming. According to filings with the FCC spotted by IEEE Spectrum,
iRobot is designing a robotic mower—news that should elate lazy people
the world over.But one group is really, really unhappy about this boon to the
slothful: Astronomers. Some of them are so upset, in fact, that their
objections might put the kibosh on the whole thing. How could this be?
In a scenario that sounds straight out of the Golden Age of scifi, it
all comes down to robots versus telescopes, and how they all
communicate...Posted