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RE: The Yearly Haj Pilgrimage in Mekkah
July 10, 2024 at 9:23 am
Breaking news-there are places in the world that get really hot.
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RE: The Yearly Haj Pilgrimage in Mekkah
July 10, 2024 at 9:24 am
(July 10, 2024 at 9:23 am)arewethereyet Wrote: Breaking news-there are places in the world that get really hot.
How hot?
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RE: The Yearly Haj Pilgrimage in Mekkah
July 16, 2024 at 7:02 pm
(July 10, 2024 at 9:25 am)arewethereyet Wrote: (July 10, 2024 at 8:26 am)Leonardo17 Wrote: No, it’s just that the video is quite impressive. ![Smile Smile](https://atheistforums.org/images/smilies/smile.gif)
I’ve never been to Vegas and it’s difficult for me to imagine a city of 650,000 permanent residents in a place like that.
There is even a book by Jeff Goodell that’s called “The Heat will kill you first”.
So in short: No one should be walking like this in the middle of the Arabian Desert (especially if you are following the strict political islamist dress code – with your body completely covered with tick black cloth).
I don’t call this “pilgrimage” I call this creative suicide.
The best color to wear in the sun depends on your purpose. If you want to protect your skin from UV radiation, you should wear black and dark colors1234, especially dark blue2. If you want to keep cool in the heat, you should wear black and loose clothing5that allows air to get to your body. Bright and vivid colors like red or neon green can also help with UV protection
Why would you wear the one color (black) that absorbs all of the colors (and energy) of the visible spectrum, if you want to keep cool?
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RE: The Yearly Haj Pilgrimage in Mekkah
July 16, 2024 at 7:13 pm
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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RE: The Yearly Haj Pilgrimage in Mekkah
July 16, 2024 at 8:25 pm
(June 22, 2024 at 1:42 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: It was 125°F in the shade at Dhahran in July 1992, when I was flying out of there.
Hah! We were there at the same time! I had the misfortune of being at King Abdul Aziz Airbase from mid-June through mid-September of 1992. You missed the worst of it if you left in July. Starting in late August, the wind shifts so it starts blowing in from the Persian Gulf. It drops the temperature down to the high 90s or low 100s but the humidity sky rockets. I was doing a lot of antenna and giant voice (public address) work so I was outside a lot. I remember chugging one of those 1.5 liter bottles of water they gave us and looking at the empty bottle in amazement that I could drink that much water. Twenty minutes later I was reaching for another one! Fun times.
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