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then use a stick™

hint, watch the sticks shadow

other hint, can use almost anything that casts a shadow, as a stick substitute.

* even more hints availible with stick™ pro

I’d like to subscribe to stick™ pro! I tried a piece of string and it waved around in the wind and didn’t work, so I think I may need a paid service for this.

your in luck due to a need to redirect our efforts we are opensourcing, stick™ and stick pro, under the historic source code "anelemma" which is stick™ plus rocks™

instruction manual:place stick verticaly on planet. observe shadow™ and place rock™ at point of of maximum shadow length, each day continue untill the pattern starts to repeat. reverse engineer orbital dynamics and gravitational atraction from resulting pattern. scratch head. build civilisation.

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