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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
[[Category:Questions On... Other Planets]]
[[Category:Questions On... Material Creation, Universe]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">No, according to them if sun is first, then it will be ninety-three million miles. And if the moon is still away, one million six hundred thousand miles, it becomes ninety-five million miles. How they are going ninety-five millions of miles in four days?... Therefore I say they couldn't go there. Their asset is Arizona, that's all. All this propaganda is gone, and at last they wanted to satisfy by delivering some sand and rock, that's all. Actually the business was not done.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- July 10, 1976, New York|Room Conversation -- July 10, 1976, New York]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: You have seen this article?</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: No.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Other news, after Mars? No?</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: I haven't seen the newspapers yet. Might have some more, been taking pictures, photographs.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Prabhupāda explained that the picture they took of Mars, they now say that there's..., they pointed out that there's a similar canyon, the Grand Canyon, in Arizona. So they were reporting like this, and Prabhupāda said this is an indication that actually it is a picture of, they have unintentionally they have let out the information that actually the photo is simply a photograph of the Grand Canyon.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: He gave an example. There's a man in his room at night, and he hears a noise. So he says "Oh, what's that sound?" And then back comes the reply, "I am not stealing." So no one asked the man to say what he was doing, but he unintentionally let it out what he was actually doing there. He just asked what the noise was, but he said "I am not stealing." So in the same way no one asked them to say anything about Arizona, but they let it out.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They have disclosed unintentionally. That is going on. It is beyond their dream to go either to the moon planet or Mars planet. It is not possible. Not nowadays I say—I said it ten years ago.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: We're going to have a difficult time, with the scientists, about the moon.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm?</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: We're going to have a difficult time about this moon and the sun relationship.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Sunday, Monday.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: This is a lifelong project. (laughter)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Nobody could answer, a simple question. (Hari-śauri explains "Sunday, Monday" question to Svarūpa Dāmodara in background(?)) According to Vedic astronomical calculations, sun is first.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: But does it have to do anything with distance, Prabhupāda?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hmm?</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Does it have to do anything with the distance? As the sun is recorded first?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, according to them if sun is first, then it will be ninety-three million miles. And if the moon is still away, one million six hundred thousand miles, it becomes ninety-five million miles. How they are going ninety-five millions of miles in four days?</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: No, on that ground it is reasonable to know that they couldn't go there, but...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Therefore I say they couldn't go there. Their asset is Arizona, that's all. All this propaganda is gone, and at last they wanted to satisfy by delivering some sand and rock, that's all. Actually the business was not done.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: They say even if there's life on another planet, at most it could be bacteria.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Nonsense. If bacteria is there, why not others?</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Well the thing is that if they say that there's other life, then they'd have to show it. But they don't know what's there because they've never been. So they have to show either there's no life and here's some rocks, which they got from this planet, or at most there's only bacteria, which they can also produce here and say it's there. But they can't show any advanced life because they don't know.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They have never gone. Simply bluff. That is my point.</p>
<p>Ṛṣi-kumāra: Whenever they don't know something, they say it doesn't exist.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I have got evidence, our Vedic literature.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: We have other informations other than Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: We have other evidences?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: We have evidence from astronomy, Jyoti-śāstra. Jyoti-śāstra.</p>
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