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Hajj is the annual pilgrimage that Muslims undertake to Mecca. (see original idea).
At the centre of a large space is the Kaaba ("cube") around which thousands of pilgrims walk respectfully in a counter-clockwise direction.
Obviously this takes up quite a bit of time and only so many can share
the amazing experience due to the duration and dynamics of the moving mass of people.
To speed up the whole event, and allow an even greater number to participate, we propose creating a massive cone spinning at high speed around the Kaaba, thus allowing the ritual to be performed in a matter of seconds.
Pilgrims enter at the bottom and slide progressively up the wall to the to rim, where they are flung off onto piles of soft cusions and/or other pilgrims who were a bit slow in getting out of the way.
No modifications to the original sacred site are required.
Rotating Kabba Hajj
Rotating_20Kabba_20Hajj
Original idea [8th of 7, Oct 10 2010]
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If Bob Newhart didn't do a sketch about this whole "we have
to walk around the cube seven times" thing, then he should
have. |
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Echo ideas can attract the wrath of the bakesperson. (see help file) |
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We know that, but we are totally prepared to make a human sacrifice to propitiate the Goddess of the Halfbakery. |
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I'd be more concerned with being the subject of an extermination Fatwa if I was you, which makes me glad to be me and not you! |
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Lesser mortals have tried to off [8th] and failed, I feel. |
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I don't read this as a criticism of the other idea, just as an even sillier solution to the same problem. You don't need to read the other one to find this one funny. |
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The last time I rode the wall-of-death thing, it took about three two-minute rides to make me very nauseous indeed (after stopping and stumbling into a safe distance). So, there may be a need for some sort of spittoon system. |
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Are there prizes (Baklawa, Mahmoul, Halwa, Sfouf) for those pilgrims who fly farthest / highest / longest, [8/7]? |
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It seems to me there is also quite a bit of scope for making a book on the event. Arabs just love to gamble. Lucrative spinoff to be had here (pun intended). |
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I want to be a human sacrifice, can I be a human
sacrifice? can I? please? |
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//The last time I rode the wall-of-death thing....// |
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I am trying to envisage [Jutta] on a motorbike in leathers.
But that is neither here nor there. Is "wall-of-death", then,
also a term for those fairground spinny-round drums? Or have
I misunderestimated [Jutta] ? |
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//So, there may be a need for some sort of spittoon system.// |
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The wall itself could be perforated to allow the sacred oral fluids to be centrifugally projected there-through and onto the waiting masses, whereby the subsequent generation of pilgrims might be anointed and their production of the sacred fluids enhanced. With sufficient rotation, the pilgrims themselves might be projected there-through and into the delightful paradise of the next world. |
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[8th], this is brilliant. Is there a way to bring it up to ~15g's before ejection? Just curious. No matter, Bun! [+] |
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No [Voice].
No you can't, you did that last life and now you're just trying to bogart all the martyrdom. |
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