(May 16, 2014 at 4:19 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Muslims pray five times a day. Each prayer requires and average of seven minutes to perform, for an approximate total of 35 minutes on the mat.
The International Space Station orbits the Earth about one every 90 minutes. 90/5 = 18. Thus, every 18 minutes, a Muslim astronaut would have to stop doing whatever it is people on the ISS do and do his (or her) seven minutes of obligatory groveling. Not very productive.
Furthermore, Muslims must face Mecca during these prayers. With the station moving at about five miles per second, I suspect that the Muslims supplicant would have to be installed in some sort of whirligig and be spun about like a pinwheel in a cyclone in order to face the proper direction. I'm not sure NASA could spare the payload.
Boru
You know why this is no Muslim astronauts? They don't want them near the rocket fuel, too expulsive.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
