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In the early stages of fruit development, a rare earth (strong) magnet is attached to each fruit.
As the fruit grows to maturity the magnet is incorporated or maintained on the exterior.
When ripened and the fruit falls off the tree, a fancy maglev array hiding under a grass lawn modulates magnetic
fields to counter fruit rotation and it's natural inclination to reach the ground.
A robot buggy constructed mainly of plastics runs around deactivating the electro-magnetic suspension allowing the as yet unbruised fruit to fall the remaining 30cm into buggy's padded hopper.
When the fruit is processed for food manufacture, the magnets are recovered.
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Would a strong magnetic field change cellular growth
to give the fruit an attractive taste? |
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How would it be attached without puncturing the skin and letting
the juice out? Would the weight of the magnet cause them to fall
prematurely? And wouldn't it take longer to carefully attach a
magnet to each piece of fruit than it would to simply pick them
gently? (Neutral) |
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Well, I've just come from a trip down memory lane researching the band "Rare Earth", but the story gets so convoluted that I'll let you do your own search for an appropriate link. |
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Are you proposing that the fruit are held, hovering above the ground (Cool!) or held, magnetically to the tree? |
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How about a gigantic roving electromagnet surrounded by nets? As the field approaches the fruits, the magnetic force plucks them off the tree, sending them hurtling towards the collection apparatus? Of course, the nets would billow inwards to soften the impact. |
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//a fancy maglev array // |
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Fancy words for magic. |
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//--- Fancy words for magic.// |
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See appendix A: Flux management system, B: Circuit diagram for power multiplexed array, and C: Controlling software documentation. |
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