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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 28 Dec 2025 12:03:02 -0800, Dimensional Traveler   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 12/28/2025 8:25 AM, Paul S Person wrote:   
      
      
       
   >> Which is why some innovative thinkers are trying to produce -- cubical   
   >> oranges. So a machine can pick them easily.   
   >   
   >Wouldn't that require a human to place the box around the wannabe orange?   
      
   Apparently not.   
      
   IIRC, orange-picking machines exist but don't work too well with round   
   oranges.   
      
   Or maybe it's the trees they are trying to reshape ...   
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