11-25-2017, 08:58 PM | #311 |
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Re: Lucy's Choice: Let's make Lucifer Parallels!
That would likely do nasty things to the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, so messing up a lot more than "just" Muslim holy lands.
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11-25-2017, 10:38 PM | #312 |
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If it's only on the scale of the Tunguska Event, Mecca is far enough inland for the Red Sea to be unaffected..
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11-25-2017, 11:11 PM | #313 |
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Inland enough for the equivalent of a 10+ megaton explosion?
Oh, Mecca's further from the coast than I thought. Cursory looks at large maps can distort impressions for a human scale.
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11-26-2017, 11:36 AM | #314 |
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Re: Lucy's Choice: Let's make Lucifer Parallels!
Would such a Tungunska-sized strike on Mecca also level Medina, the nearby second most holy city in Islam?
An interesting addition to this seed (or any other with a Tungunska style twentieth century asteroid strike) - have there not be the actual Tungunska blast. It was just another day in 1908 Siberia. This would mean nothing to the locals, but Homeline & other outtimers would notice the difference. It could indicate that something held up the asteroid, somehow delaying (or speeding up, if before 1908) and targeting it on Earth. Something, or someone, very powerful. |
11-26-2017, 11:48 AM | #315 |
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It would have been mostly a big shrug to the rest of the world. The Kaaba would remain, and there is nothing in Mecca that could not be rebuilt. Now, if it happened after the Saudis took over Mecca in 1932, then it could have been seen as proof that Allah had rejected the holding of Mecca by the Saudis and had rejected the Wahhabi sect that the Saudis had allied with. If that was the interpretation of the rest of the Muslim world held, they might have launched a jihad against the Saudis in order to liberate the ruins of Mecca from the Wahhabi heretics. The end result would have been the destruction of the Wahhabi sect and their Saudi supporters, meaning that the liberal Islamic movements would have not been killed off during the 1950s and 1960s.
By the 2010s, the Middle East might be considered the equivalent of Europe in culture and sophistication, with Islam being considered a quaint tradition by the Arab and Persians, as the majority of the population of the Middle East would be liberal Moslims, and their governments would have been spreading liberal attitudes throughout the Islamic world with the easy money from their oil reserves for decades. You might not have had the dictatorships of the second half of the 20th century, meaning that there would have been more investment in industry and more economic equality. With access to birth control and contraception, the population of the Middle East might be 50% less than in our world, meaning that the population might be equal in per capita income to the USA. It might have been a much better world for everyone, especially the inhabitants of the Middle East, as they would have everything that they desired, including a liberal religious tradition. |
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11-26-2017, 03:32 PM | #317 |
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Medina is some distance from Mecca. Farther away from Mecca than the coast.
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The Kaaba would be turned to powder by a Tunguska type event.
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Couldn't it survive an air burst Tunguska event in the same manner as how a few structures at ground zero survive nukes?
Now while we know why that happens, it would cause a major stir among everyone in 1908 as an obvious miracle.
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