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Muslim astronaut in space worship problem [HOW do you pray facing Mecca five times a day in space?]
news.com.au ^
| May 02, 2007 01:00am
| staff writer
Posted on 05/01/2007 10:54:39 AM PDT by bedolido
HOW do you pray facing Mecca five times a day when you are circling the Earth 16 times every 24 hours?
This is one of the problems facing Malaysian authorities as they prepare to send their first man into space. There are others: how to hold the prayer position in zero gravity, ensure that only halal freeze-dried food is in your space cupboard and perform your ritual ablutions before worship?
They have all been answered by a team of Islamic scholars and scientists that has spent more than a year working on guidelines for the astronaut.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: astronaut; idiotalert; islam; islamicscholars; malaysia; morons; muhammadsminions; muslim; muslims; space; stuckonstupid; worship
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posted on
05/01/2007 10:54:43 AM PDT
by
bedolido
To: bedolido
Tell him to stand on his head.
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posted on
05/01/2007 10:55:47 AM PDT
by
FormerLib
(Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
To: bedolido
Anti-satellite missile. Problem solved.
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posted on
05/01/2007 10:56:14 AM PDT
by
sam_paine
(X .................................)
To: FormerLib
Hang him upside down..preferably outside the spacecraft.
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posted on
05/01/2007 10:56:28 AM PDT
by
Wombat101
(Islam: Turning everything it touches to Shi'ite since 632 AD...)
To: bedolido
It happens when you let a fanatic cult religion run your life...
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posted on
05/01/2007 10:57:55 AM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: bedolido
Yep...I guess we’ll have to retrofit the space station with a Muslim foot washing station. It’ll only cost a few billion more, which the taxpayer will have no vote in paying.
To: Wombat101
tell him to wait for muslim technology to get him there,
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posted on
05/01/2007 10:58:27 AM PDT
by
tm61
To: bedolido
And they wonder why Islamic countries have remained so backward.
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posted on
05/01/2007 10:59:13 AM PDT
by
sageb1
(This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
To: bedolido
Trick question. Islam will never have a space program and if someone is that devout a muslim, he wont make it past the psycho screening for astronauts that functional cultures put into space.
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posted on
05/01/2007 10:59:14 AM PDT
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: bedolido
OK guys walk out of the Airlock naked and.............
To: bedolido
Muslim astronaut in space worship problem [HOW do you pray facing Mecca five times a day in space?]Easy. Point spacecraft at Mecca. Engage thrusters.
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posted on
05/01/2007 11:01:13 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(JimRob's 12th Commandment: Thou shall not trash actual pubbies on FR to pimp false pubbies)
To: bedolido
Spin the spacecraft around at 30,000 rpm. He'll face mecca 500 times every second.
That should do the trick.
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posted on
05/01/2007 11:01:32 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(I have a big carbon footprint and I'm not afraid to use it.)
To: bedolido
Vaporize Mecca, distribute it about the Earth’s atmosphere, then it should be easier for Ramsey Al-Kaboom to find it from space.
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posted on
05/01/2007 11:01:50 AM PDT
by
loungitude
(The truth hurts.)
To: bedolido
They have all been answered by a team of Islamic scholars and scientists that has spent more than a year working on guidelines for the astronaut.Wait until the guy figures out that they were too busy figuring this out and didn't spend enough time developing a zero-G toilet for him.
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posted on
05/01/2007 11:02:01 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(JimRob's 12th Commandment: Thou shall not trash actual pubbies on FR to pimp false pubbies)
To: bedolido
Maybe they could find a god that wasn't so damn finicky.
Just a thought.
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posted on
05/01/2007 11:02:09 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: bedolido
Space travel is for advanced people. If such trivial sh*t is on your mind while you are cruising at thousands of miles per hour in the vacuum of space...you have no business being there.
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posted on
05/01/2007 11:02:20 AM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: bedolido
HOW do you pray facing Mecca five times a day when you are circling the Earth 16 times every 24 hours?
Easy, spin the person like a satellite and tell them to keep praying until they land back on earth.
To: dirtboy
I had some comments to make about this, but those of you who’ve already commented have said it all!
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posted on
05/01/2007 11:03:42 AM PDT
by
American Quilter
(You can't negotiate with people who are dedicated to your destruction.)
To: bedolido
Pat, I think I’ll spin....
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posted on
05/01/2007 11:03:55 AM PDT
by
azhenfud
(The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
To: bedolido
Reminds me of an old Star Trek joke....
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posted on
05/01/2007 11:03:59 AM PDT
by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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