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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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To: American Quilter
To: bedolido
I heard they now make a tasty pork-flavored space food stick.
To: tm61
“muslim technology” is an oxymoron.
Even the “technology” involved in creating an IED comes from Western sources.
I can’t recall a Muslim technological or technical breakthrough in the last 1,000 years, and even then, many of the accomplishments normally accredited to Muslim society is actually of foreign (Greek or Indian) origin..
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posted on
05/01/2007 11:04:58 AM PDT
by
Wombat101
(Islam: Turning everything it touches to Shi'ite since 632 AD...)
To: Photo Finish
Ping to you, PF—I think you’ll enjoy this thread!
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posted on
05/01/2007 11:05:10 AM PDT
by
American Quilter
(You can't negotiate with people who are dedicated to your destruction.)
To: reagan_fanatic
I’m stealin’ your tagline.
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posted on
05/01/2007 11:05:19 AM PDT
by
pigsmith
To: dragonblustar
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posted on
05/01/2007 11:06:27 AM PDT
by
bedolido
(I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you for forcing me to kill your sons)
To: bedolido
And don't forget lunch!!!!
To: bedolido
Oh my god!! You and I were thinking alike!
To: bedolido
Sounds like a Saturday Night Live skit.
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posted on
05/01/2007 11:08:38 AM PDT
by
svcw
(There is no plan B.)
To: pigsmith
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posted on
05/01/2007 11:08:48 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(I have a big carbon footprint and I'm not afraid to use it.)
To: bedolido
Feh. Stupid article. Already been figured out, over 20 years ago, when a Saudi flew on the Shuttle.
They set a clock to Mecca time, and he prayed according to that.
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posted on
05/01/2007 11:09:09 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: dragonblustar
Oh my god!! You and I were thinking alike!Very scary!!!
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posted on
05/01/2007 11:09:16 AM PDT
by
bedolido
(I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you for forcing me to kill your sons)
To: bedolido
At that distance, even being off an inch you could be pointing 1000 miles away from Mecca
If we colonize Mars, Muslims certainly can't go as when there are long periods of time where Mecca will be facing the other way on the other side of the sun. And of course even if they manage to point in the right direction, due to orbital speeds one second later they won't be
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posted on
05/01/2007 11:10:20 AM PDT
by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
To: bedolido
Make the Christians on-board acquiesce something, anything, through guilt?
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posted on
05/01/2007 11:10:22 AM PDT
by
Ghost of Philip Marlowe
(Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
To: Grimmy
Why are there no Muslims on Star Trek? That’s right. Because it’s in the future.
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posted on
05/01/2007 11:11:50 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: bedolido
Put him in the airlock, close the inside door, open the outside door, then de-pressurize the airlock.
Did I put something in the wrong sequence? Oppsie!
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posted on
05/01/2007 11:12:03 AM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
("Wave Britainnia...Britannia waives the rules!")
To: bedolido
Well if your society can’t quit killing each other long enough to build a rocket its not a problem...... So, its not really an urgent concern.
What are the odds the rocket will be attacked by rebels before launch?
To: bedolido
Sounds like their moon “god” wants to make sure they don’t get too close. I guess he’s worried about suicide bombers, too.
To: bedolido
Give the guy a GPS.
Mecca-lecca-Hi, Mecca-heinie-ho!
To: bedolido
Would an Orthodox Jew have the same sort of questions? (OK, don’t clutter this thread with all the “Jews in Space” stills you can find from that Mel Brooks movie!)
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