what would happened if we nuked mecca?

[TheABELBOTO]

no, it is just a theory

we need to test it first

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[Rigel]

when the muslims go to pray, they spin on a circle on their mat because mecca is no more

[Nonnel]

speaking of, how do muslims determine the best way to face toward mecca? do they use the google earth distance tool and find out which direction is the most direct? do they just point east or west based on our euro-centered maps? how do they do it?

[TheABELBOTO]

speaking of, how do muslims determine the best way to face toward mecca? do they use the google earth distance tool and find out which direction is the most direct? do they just point east or west based on our euro-centered maps? how do they do it?

http://qib.la/

[Nonnel]

http://qib.la/

exactly the sort of thing i was hoping for

[McJob]

Nuking the spot doesn't remove the spot. It just removes whatever was on the spot. The location doesn't stop existing. It doesn't create some empty black hole.

[Red Spy]

A modern day Nuremberg trial

[Hansome duded]

rip the Islama Momma city

[Tactical Nuke]

we'd lose all the oil

it's one of those ideas that's too good to be true man

[Badpost]

A better question would be what if we took over?

[Jairo]

speaking of, how do muslims determine the best way to face toward mecca? do they use the google earth distance tool and find out which direction is the most direct? do they just point east or west based on our euro-centered maps? how do they do it?

compasses were invented in the arab world for this very reason

[Tactical Nuke]

compasses were invented in the arab world for this very reason

Mecca isn't a magnetic pole how tf would that work

[Ragequit]

people sand monkeys would die

[Jairo]

Mecca isn't a magnetic pole how tf would that work

you can calculate an offset

it also involves the sky but I'm not well versed in the process

[Magus]

Arrested, tried by the UN, and executed for crimes against humanity.

Plus you'd piss off 1.6 billion people.