Comment by metalman

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.