XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:22:43 +1300, Your Name    
   wrote:   
      
   >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:   
   >>>    
   >>>    
   >>>    
   >>>>> 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).   
      
   Or sensors that sniff the fruit -- if pickable fruit smells different   
   from not-yet-pickable fruit.   
      
   I say "pickable" because, at least in the past, a lot of fruit was   
   picked when it was not-quite-ripe and allowed to ripen during   
   shipment. But what the current practice is I have no idea.   
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