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How does an Islamic astronaut face Mecca in orbit?
The Christian Science Monitor ^
| 10/10/07
| Bettina Gartner
Posted on 10/09/2007 7:17:02 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Allah is watching even in outer space. And that poses a problem for a devout Muslim astronaut who is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Russian rocket this week.
Imagine trying to pray five times a day in zero gravity while having to face an ever-shifting Mecca hundreds of miles below. How do you ritually wash yourself without water? And, now that it's Ramadan, how do you fast from sunrise to sunset when you see a sunrise and a sunset every 90 minutes? Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, a Malaysian astronaut, must decide before the Oct. 10 launch.
"I am Islamic," Sheikh Shukor told a press conference in Moscow, according to the Associated Press, "but my main priority is more of conducting experiments."
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: deathcult; space
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posted on
10/09/2007 7:17:51 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Mitt Romney 08)
To: KevinDavis
"but my main priority is more of conducting experiments."Uh oh, you know what that usually means.
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posted on
10/09/2007 7:19:08 PM PDT
by
jdm
To: KevinDavis
Let him point through the atmosphere at 20,000mph.
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posted on
10/09/2007 7:20:07 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(George Orwell was a clairvoyant.)
To: KevinDavis
How does an Islamic astronaut face Mecca in orbit? Um. . . . down?
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posted on
10/09/2007 7:22:16 PM PDT
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
To: KevinDavis
"How do you ritually wash yourself without water?" Seems to me a whole bunch of terrestrial moslems have found a way to do it without soap....
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posted on
10/09/2007 7:23:19 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: KevinDavis
Shove his butt out the hatch and let him pray in any direction he wants to.
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posted on
10/09/2007 7:23:29 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Fred Thompson '08)
To: KevinDavis
Who cares? Allah/Satan is not worthy.
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posted on
10/09/2007 7:25:23 PM PDT
by
brityank
(The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
To: KevinDavis
"
How does an Islamic astronaut face Mecca in orbit?" By slowly rocking back and forth in his chair while looking up!
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posted on
10/09/2007 7:26:57 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
To: KevinDavis
Ali Bin Kaboomie should spend the whole mission duct-taped to the bulkhead, so he can’t touch the airlock or the fuel cells.
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posted on
10/09/2007 7:36:00 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
To: editor-surveyor
To: KevinDavis
You’ve heard, perhaps, of the Whirling Dervish?
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posted on
10/09/2007 7:41:51 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE)
To: KevinDavis
By using a Lazy Susan?
To: KevinDavis
Well, this calls for a multi-billion dollar research program to create an unnecessarily complex device that will allow orbiting Muslims to always be pointed at Mecca. I’m thinking a GPS compatible, gyro-stablized, RCS propelled, smart rug.
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posted on
10/09/2007 7:54:30 PM PDT
by
Reaganesque
(Romney for President 2008)
To: KevinDavis
A real entrepreneur would sell these to Muslim Asstronaughts.
To: TigersEye
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posted on
10/09/2007 8:02:36 PM PDT
by
pandoraou812
( zero tolerance to the will of Allah & Muslims ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
To: KevinDavis
If this were in the USA, the left wing nuts would be demanding the postponement of all missions until the muzzies could be accommodated.
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posted on
10/09/2007 8:29:43 PM PDT
by
cowboyway
(My heroes have always been Cowboys)
To: KevinDavis
In space, no one can hear you fart.
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posted on
10/09/2007 8:37:37 PM PDT
by
weegee
(NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
To: KevinDavis
Face first, from straight above, after he’s kicked out the hatch?
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posted on
10/09/2007 10:44:51 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Profile updated Friday, October 5, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: SunkenCiv
Yepper...he can do it any way he wants to, once he’s launched from the shuttle.
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posted on
10/10/2007 7:00:43 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(It's time for Halloween, so practice safe hex.)
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