I have often wondered, when Muslims are travelling, how do they keep track of the right direction for Mecca. (This is the way they need to face whenever it’s prayer-time.)
I once flew to Australia on Air Jordan, and they had a screen displaying the correct direction to Mecca at all times.
Then the iPhone came along, and suddenly there is a widely-available, handheld device that contains a GPS and a compass. Bingo. And what do you know, someone has made the app.
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http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/col/smith/2003/03/07/askthepilot31/index.html
“I near a bank of payphones where, on the floor, three African Muslims are crouched toward Mecca. Actually, they are crouched more toward Bridgeport, Connecticut. Being a pilot I tend to have a reflexive (conditioned, if not natural) awareness of compass points and things geographical, and I notice they are facing the wrong direction. I choose to tell them, and when I do they are surprised.”
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