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[fontechnician]

Posted: 7 May
From: Anonymous

I fly, yet I have no wings. I cry, yet I have no eyes. Darkness follows me; lower light I never see.

What am I?

[A couple more are added a few minutes later:]

I can bring tears to your eyes, resurrect the dead, make you smile, and reverse time. I form in an instant but I last a life time.

What am I?

I'm measured in temperature and time, but have neither.

What am I?

Comments

[brynwieldr]

You find the nearest landmark or town and direct from there.

It occurs to me that this may be a technological thing that my home world doesn't actually have.

[fontechnician]

It might be, I apologize.

It's latitude and longitude.

[brynwieldr]

Yes, I've never heard of it, if it's back home. Sorry.

[fontechnician]

It's not completely familiar to me, so I think I know of the system, but not in the form used around here.

[The idea of GPS is a baffling but interesting one.]