Svarūpa Dāmodara: This is called Martian Grand Canyon, and an ocean meandering gorge ten times the size of Arizona's Grand Canyon.
Prabhupāda: That we can photograph it and make ten times, hundred times. Their business is in Arizona.
Rūpānuga: I think so.
Prabhupāda: And this is only propaganda.
Rūpānuga: I agree. I think it was all like a movie set.
Prabhupāda: That's all. They are not going. Arizona is there, only asset. Why they are taking Arizona? That means they are in Arizona. Just like one man was stealing from the room, and there were some sounds, and the master of the house said: "Who is there? What is that sound?" The man said: "No, I am not stealing. No, no, I am not stealing." It is like that. (laughter)
Rūpānuga: Throughout this article they make comparisons with earth, you know, approximations.
Prabhupāda: And there is no man. Just see the foolishness. The same logic, "No, no, I am not stealing." Who asked you that you are stealing? He asked for the sound, but he disclosed. It is like that. Why they are bringing Arizona?
Rūpānuga: Śrīla Prabhupāda, you catch them red-handed.
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes, that I can do. It is like that. Who asked them to speak of Arizona? You are speaking of Arizona. "No, no, I am not stealing." (laughter) It is like that. They could have mentioned other places.
Rūpānuga: Arizona is convenient.
Prabhupāda: That means they are working in Arizona. The mind is there. Arizona-minded because they are working in Arizona, so they are disclosing mind.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: But they are claiming that this photograph was taken two hundred million miles away from the earth.
Prabhupāda: That, they can say anything, but they are doing everything in Arizona.
Vipina: What is the point then, Prabhupāda? Just to take money and use it some other way?
Prabhupāda: No, no, just to cheat people that they are very big scientists, give them fat salary. That's all. But what people will benefit by this?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: They want to study whether there is life there or not.
Prabhupāda: There is life. You do not know.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: They are not sure yet.
Prabhupāda: There is life everywhere. We can say from the śāstra. There cannot be any place vacant. It is not possible. Must be life there. All planets are vacant, simply this planet is congested, overpopulation . . . what is this nonsense? What is the difference between this planet and other planets, chemically or physiologically?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yeah, there are differences.
Prabhupāda: Huh? Differences, that may be little, the difference between cat's body, dog's body, man's body, little difference must be there. But the elements are the same. At least, I'll not believe. No, I am not blind, but in the śāstra, every planet is congested. That is in the Bhāgavatam.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes, actually we also have some information even in science that there must be life there in other planets.
Prabhupāda: I . . . he was of my age, perhaps you know his name, Dr. Shah? Menga Shah. So he was my friend in Allahabad. So he said, "No, there is life." He said, Dr. Menga . . . there is no question of disbelieving, he said, and he is also big, big scientist. Dr. Menga Shah is very known scientist. Yes. Dr. Menga Shah, Dr. Nilratan Dhar . . . (indistinct) . . . they were all my customers.