Posted on 08/11/2010 5:28:46 AM PDT by paulycy
Giant Mecca clock seeks to call time on Greenwich
For more than a century, a point on the top of a hill in south-east London has been recognised as the centre of world time and the official starting point of each new day.
But now the supremacy of Greenwich Mean Time is being challenged by a gargantuan new clock being built in Mecca, by which the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims could soon be setting their watches.
Due to start ticking on Thursday as the faithful begin fasting during the month of Ramadan, the timepiece sits atop the Royal Mecca Clock Tower which dominates Islam’s holiest city.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
A giant, gold-lame nightmare.
It’s always ugly o’clock in Mecca now.
I saw the picture and that is one big, ugly, retrograde clock. Once it is built, Muslims will be even more clueless because they will never know what time it really is.
Is it just me or does that clock look like Barad-dur, the great fortress in Mordor where Sauron dwelt?
It’s 9PM....do you know where your goat is?
I just looked at it. It looks exactly like the eye of Mordor in Lord of the Rings! Are the Muslims trying to parody themselves, or did it just happen naturally?
"That's why if someone travels to Mecca or lives there, he lives longer, is healthier and is less affected by the earth's gravity," he said. "You get charged with energy."
I stand in awe of Muslim science.
One of the reasons Greenwich was selected in the late 19th century was that placing the Prime Meridian there, meant the International Dateline passed through the centre of the Pacific Ocean, rather than through a continental landmass.
Mecca would not meet this criteria - if it became the Prime Meridian, the Date line would pass through North America.
They're claiming victory again, just like in NYC. This time it's London. They know political correctness has the world in a strangle hold.
Anyway, their clock is irrelevant. Expensive, yes, but irrelevant. It's a big, expensive knickknack.
This claim that the holy city is a "zero magnetism zone" has won support from some Arab scientists like Abdel-Baset al-Sayyed of the Egyptian National Research Centre who says that there is no magnetic force in Mecca.
"That's why if someone travels to Mecca or lives there, he lives longer, is healthier and is less affected by the earth's gravity," he said. "You get charged with energy."
What a joke. The magnetic pole wanders, so no location can be in 'perfect alignment' with the magnetic pole.
No magnetic force in Mecca? Right. So a compass wouldn't point north there, huh?
Less affected by gravity? So, you weigh less??
Everything in islam is derivative.
CHICAGO
DOES ANYONE REALLY KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS?
As I was walking down the street one day
A man came up to me and asked me what the time was that was on my watch, yeah
And I said
Does anybody really know what time it is
Does anybody really care
If so I can’t imagine why
We’ve all got time enough to cry
And I was walking down the street one day
A pretty lady looked at me and said her diamond watch had stopped cold dead
And I said
Does anybody really know what time it is
Does anybody really care
If so I can’t imagine why
We’ve all got time enough to cry
And I waq walking down the street one day
Being pushed and shoved by people trying to beat the clock, oh, no I just don’t know
I don’t know
And I said, yes I said
Background:
People runnin’ everywhere
Don’t know where to go
Don’t know where I am
Can’t see past the next step
Don’t have time to think past the last mile
Have no time to look around
Just run around, run around and think why
Does anybody really know what time it is
Does anybody really care
If so I can’t imagine why
We’ve all got time enough to die.
Do not submit...do not relent...do not give in....resist the tyranny of Islam.
“meant the International Dateline passed through the centre of the Pacific Ocean, rather than through a continental landmass.”
Great point. I don’t think many people know that. I didn’t.
Here's a perfect gift for your muslim friends..........
Yeah, setting time by the prime meridian makes no sense at all!! /s
The comments at the Telegraph are priceless!
Since Muslims have succeeded in leading the world in....ahem...well....ummmm....precisely NOTHING....I don’t predict much success in this endeavor.
Except it might make sure they are actually on time for meetings! Now that would be a refreshing change.
Two things:
The Virgin Mary stands on a crescent moon.
The USA planted our flag on the moon.
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