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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-12-30 01:35:22 +0000, Dimensional Traveler said:   
   > On 12/29/2025 8:58 AM, Paul S Person wrote:   
   >> On Sun, 28 Dec 2025 12:03:02 -0800, Dimensional Traveler   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>> 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....   
      
   Most "picking" machines simply shake each tree and either catch the   
   falling fruit or 'hoover' it up from the ground. Trying to get a   
   machine to actually pick individual fruit would be very difficult and   
   it would incorrectly take piles of unripe fruit (idiotic AI might help   
   with that, if if ever really works properly).   
      
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