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   Dimensional Traveler to Paul S Person   
   =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_=E2=80=9CThis_is_how_the   
   29 Dec 25 17:35:22   
   
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   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 12/29/2025 8:58 AM, Paul S Person wrote:   
   > On Sun, 28 Dec 2025 12:03:02 -0800, Dimensional Traveler   
   >  wrote:   
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   >> On 12/28/2025 8:25 AM, Paul S Person wrote:   
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   >>> 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 ...   
      
   Maybe the orange growers have been playing too much Minecraft....   
      
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