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When You're In Orbit, Which Way Is Mecca?
New Scientist ^
| 4-21-2006
| Kelly Young
Posted on 04/21/2006 11:46:49 AM PDT by blam
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:46:53 AM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Fortunately, there won't be muslims in the future for this to be a concern.
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:48:22 AM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
To: blam
When you're in orbit, which way is Mecca? Easy. Perform a (human) waste dump. Wherever it heads must be the direction of Mecca.
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:49:35 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: blam
Perhaps we should put some Iranian Muslims in orbit and find out.
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:50:35 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Ignore the drive-by media. Build the fence. Sí, Se Puede!)
To: MeanWestTexan
They are not found in Star trek..
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:50:47 AM PDT
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: blam
Pretty soon....just look for the mushroom cloud...
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:52:00 AM PDT
by
stm
(Our country and world are at a crossroads; taking the wrong path is not an option.)
To: blam
I checked on this yesterday. It turns out that Yamaha Corp. in Japan has already patented a device that points to Mecca - U.S. Patent #6,946,991.
A portable terminal (e.g., portable telephone) is constituted using a geomagnetic sensor for detecting an azimuth, and a GPS receiver for detecting a present position thereof. A direction of a prescribed place (e.g., Mecca) is calculated based on the azimuth information and position information, so that the calculated direction is indicated by an arrow displayed on the screen of a display. In addition, a prescribed message is displayed on the screen of the display, or it is produced as preset vocalized sounds by a speaker. The azimuth information and position information are automatically produced at each religious service time, at which a user, especially a muslim who pray, holds a religious service in the direction of Mecca. In addition, the portable terminal can detect a direction match between the direction designated by the prescribed portion (e.g., antenna) of the portable terminal body and the direction of Mecca.
Too bad we didn't think of this earlier, we could have made a fortune.
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:52:47 AM PDT
by
HAL9000
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To: blam; All
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In space, nobody can hear you scream "Allahu Ackbhar!"
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Well, it looks like the land of the virulently anti-Semitic Mahathir The Moonbat is looking to go to the moon, so-to-speak. But with a space program comes serious, important scientific issues:
How do Muslim astronauts pray in space? Malaysia's National Space Agency is holding a conference to consider such questions as the country prepares to send its first citizen into orbit. A nationwide competition in the majority-Muslim country has narrowed the field to four astronaut candidates, three of whom are Muslims.
Two will eventually be trained and sent into space by Russia, and Malaysia's space agency - or Angkasa - said it had been scratching its head over how Muslim rituals could be carried out properly.
Performing ablutions for Muslim prayers with water rationing in space and preparing food according to Islamic standards will be among issues discussed, said Angkasa's director-general, Mazlan Othman.
Other complications with Muslim astronauts:
- Beheading an infidel with a sword is complicated by the complex locking-collar on most spacesuit helmets.
- Constantly worried about Allah's aim when he hurls stars at devils (Sura 67:5)
- Tang is not halal. (But it does make excellent body-paint)
- Please do not use the AE-35 antenna as a spit for roasting goats. Pretty-please?
- Nice beard. Don't feel obligated to take on air filter cleaning duty, mind you, but it really would be appreciated.
- They use up way too much room in the Sick Bay with all the Filipino and Indian maids they brought along and constantly beat up and rape.
- Um... that's the floor and that's the wall. And that's the "Emergency Airlock Release" button you've covered up with your prayer mat that you keep cycling when you hit your forehead against it.
- The Palestinian flight-controller keeps wanting to change the rocket's course to make it smash into Sderot, Israel
- Those PhD's in Astrophysics, Flight Medicine and Engineering are impressive and might be useful when combined with your many hours of training and excellent physical condition. But tell me again: who's cousin in the Royal Family are you?
- For the last time, those solar panels are Dutch, not Danish. Now quit screaming about cartoons and smashing them or you're going out the airlock.
- About that Israeli boycott - you're gonna laugh - you might want to take a look at those oyxgen tanks on your back.
I'm sure they'll work all of this out.
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:54:01 AM PDT
by
areafiftyone
(Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
To: stm
Pretty soon....just look for the mushroom cloud... It's not too often great subtle humor masquerades as the truth!
bravo
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:54:04 AM PDT
by
CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
(Toon Town, Iran...........where reality is the real fantasy.)
To: blam
Sounds like a question for ASK THE IMAM! Also, how does one perform ablutions in a zero-gravity toilte?
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:54:27 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: blam
From orbit, look down at your @$$. Somewhere in that direction lies the heart of Islamic thought.
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:57:56 AM PDT
by
MortMan
(Trains stop at train stations. On my desk is a workstation...)
To: blam
Not to mention prayer times. If orbiting the earth, how many sunups-sundowns does one experience in 24 hours? May as well just spend the whole trip on the carpet!
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:57:56 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: blam
Which Way Is Mecca?Just follow the smell.
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:59:59 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Florida Gators - 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions)
To: blam
Thats easy Down---TOWARDS HELL where the great prophet Moohamid is.
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posted on
04/21/2006 12:03:54 PM PDT
by
SouthernBoyupNorth
("For my wings are made of Tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel..........")
To: blam
Communion on the Moon by Penn Clark
There is a little known "first" which took place when man landed on the moon with the Apollo 11 space mission. Buzz Aldrin had been given a small communion set by his pastor to take to the moon in his personal preference kit. After the Eagle touched down, Aldrin took out the communion set, laid out the elements, asked Houston for a few moments of silence and took communion alone on the moon. I think this is a great testimony of how we should look for ways to honor the Lord in all we do. It is also interesting to me that the first thing man ever did on the moon was to take communion.
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posted on
04/21/2006 12:06:01 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: blam
Now, if astronauts request it, NASA can send up streaming video of religious services.![](http://www.kinopolis.de/filminfo/a/img/alien.jpg)
In space, no one can hear you stream.
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posted on
04/21/2006 12:07:25 PM PDT
by
kidd
To: blam
I thought only infidels went into space.
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posted on
04/21/2006 12:08:06 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: blam
Put the Kaabla in orbit and watch the fun at prayer times.
To: blam
I can't believe this is even an issue.
Don't muslims believe the earth is flat?
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posted on
04/21/2006 12:10:22 PM PDT
by
TC Rider
(The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
To: blam
Maybe I'm just becoming an old grouch, but I find the general anti Islam and anti Mecca posts offensively ignorant. All moslems are not dangerous, smell, hate America, etc. Only if you have never met any, have never travelled anywhere, are totally ignorant of the world, can you believe such things.
And all the flames in the world aren't going to change that reality. Posting that you can find Mecca from the smell is just childishly bigoted. If you want any examples of good moslems, try our allies in Iraq and Afghanistan for starters.
Jews don't have horns either, and Catholics aren't subversives working for the Pope, etc.
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posted on
04/21/2006 12:12:44 PM PDT
by
Williams
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