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The Qibla (Entry 1016.PS5517)

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 November 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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In which the Islamic practice of facing Mecca in prayer becomes a thorny theological and geographical question, particularly for Muslims in Alaska, French Polynesia, or low-earth orbit. Certificate #2405.

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Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

0:10.0

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

0:15.0

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

0:19.0

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

0:23.0

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

0:26.0

Piando Ferries, there is another way. We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

0:37.0

We are receiving this message.

0:41.0

We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can

0:46.0

only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.

0:50.9

Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this

0:55.6

monumental reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

0:58.9

These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost.

1:05.0

So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions,

1:11.0

this is our legacy to you.

1:13.4

This is our time capsule.

1:15.4

This is the omnibus. So, You have accessed entry 1016 dot P.S. 5517 certificate number 2405, the Kibla. Keepla is a word that has a cube but no you.

2:14.0

One of the rare ones, but it's in Scrabble.

2:17.0

But it's in Arabic words.

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Like many of those words.

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So, yeah.

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But you can use it in Scrabble? Oh, well this is a question we had earlier. Is it capitalized or not? Is it a proper name or is it a just a cardinal direction? Lots of religious words tend to get capitalized, especially on the internet where people are like capitalize everything.

2:37.0

Right. I mean the president capitalizes things like country.

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