zap

“Once you get deeper in, it’s basically as if you’ve got a battery. Your battery starts to dwindle so those trips at the end really zap you,” he said.

He added that the weeder can zap 6,500 weeds per minute, compared with the roughly 40 weeds per minute that can be picked by hand.

It zaps Uncle Ty with a loud, sizzling crack, and he convulses to the floor.

In stark contrast, those cells that had received a zap accumulated about 40 times the amount of the fluorescent green proteins delivered by the virus.

Technicians had zapped the insects, all males, with radiation in a nearby lab to make them sterile.