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To: george76
positioned their prayer rugs and bodies to face northeast toward Mecca.

They're facing the wrong direction.

8 posted on 08/04/2007 9:15:53 AM PDT by woofer (Some strive to soar like an eagle, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.)
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To: woofer
You caught that too.

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14 posted on 08/04/2007 9:27:44 AM PDT by Lurker (Comparing moderate islam to extremist islam is like comparing small pox to ebola.)
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To: woofer
positioned their prayer rugs and bodies to face northeast toward Mecca.

They're facing the wrong direction.


Great circle route... Of course, I didn't know that Hell was somewhere NE of CU.

21 posted on 08/04/2007 9:32:49 AM PDT by rock_lobsta (Doing my part to warm up the planet... Because Bikinis Beat Burkas!)
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To: woofer; M. Espinola; jan in Colorado; ken21

LOL

to face northeast toward Mecca.


23 posted on 08/04/2007 9:36:13 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: woofer
They're facing the wrong direction.

No, they're correct. Great circle distance and bearing from Boulder, CO to Mecca is 7642 miles at a bearing of 34.6 degrees true north. That's northeast.

35 posted on 08/04/2007 10:07:33 AM PDT by weaponeer
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