XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:35:22 -0800, Dimensional Traveler   
    wrote:   
      
   >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....   
      
   I don't think the growers are involved yet, except maybe for a few   
   test plots. This is rather more academic/developmental at the moment.   
      
   And, who know, the whole program may have been DOGEd. If it was   
   sucking on the Federal teat to begin with.   
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