Prabhupāda: And why there is no life in moon planet? Some scientists say the temperature is two hundred degrees less than the zero.
Hari-śauri: Yes, at night when they said . . . because there's no atmosphere.
Prabhupāda: But why these rascals say it is full of dust? And how from the dust so much light is coming, illuminating the whole universe? What is their logic? They have already brought the dust. That dust does not illuminate.
Hari-śauri: Well, they say just like when the sunlight hits the earth, then the earth appears very bright from outer space. It appears very illuminating.
Prabhupāda: Who says?
Hari-śauri: This is the scientists' excuse.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: They showed some pictures.
Hari-śauri: They showed some pictures taken from outer space that shows the earth glowing very brightly, like the moon. So they say in the same way when the . . .
Prabhupāda: Why the glow of the surface of the globe, earth, does not illuminate? It does not come between illumination?
Hari-śauri: Just like when the sun is here, everything is bright.
Prabhupāda: That's all right, when the sun is there.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: That's interesting. The moon is actually illuminating.
Prabhupāda: Why it does not illuminate?
Hari-śauri: They only say it reflects the sunlight.
Prabhupāda: Kick their face with shoes. That is the only reward for them.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Imagination.
Prabhupāda: And foolish person accepting. Just like sun is illuminating. It doesn't require illumination from any other planet. Similarly, if earth is also illuminating, why does it require moonlight in darkness? This common sense does not come into the brain of these rascals who believe that?
Hari-śauri: Well, they put their scientific reasoning to explain the different things.
Prabhupāda: What is their scientific reasoning? Talking like fools and rascals? If something is illuminating, why extra illumination required to illuminate?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Their theory is that there's a dark side of the moon that we've never seen.
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Their theory is that there's a dark . . . that actually the moon is reflecting the sun's light. So there's a dark side of the moon.
Prabhupāda: So far the world is, where is the dark side and the bright side? If you compare like that, then so far this globe is concerned, which one is dark side, which one is bright side?
Hari-śauri: No, they say the earth is spinning on its own axis, so all parts of the earth at one time or another receive sunlight.
Prabhupāda: The moon does not do that?
Hari-śauri: The moon does not revolve on its own axis.
Prabhupāda: Another foolishness.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Just to fit their speculation.
Prabhupāda: Just see. Simply speculation and misleading people.
Hari-śauri: There's no basis for it. There's no truth to it at all. (laughs)
Prabhupāda: And you people believed that? I'm surprised. (laughter) You are also fools and rascals.
Hari-śauri: This is what they teach in all the schools.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: They have little models, Śrīla Prabhupāda, made out of plastic.
Prabhupāda: Ah, they are . . . Let them; we take them as rascals, that's all. Mūḍha.
Hari-śauri: That other argument that you use about how the moon rays give life to the vegetables, so how is it that there's no life on the moon? If the rays from the moon give life, then how is it there's no life where the rays come from?
Prabhupāda: They have never gone to moon. (laughs) All bogus. And this Mars expedition will be a failure. Let them spend millions of dollars. I told about moon planet ten years ago. Simply it is childish, simply a waste of money and energy. I told this. Now it has proved.
Hari-śauri: There's no more interest in the moon at all.
Prabhupāda: No? Kīrtanānanda said, "It is inhabitable." Ten years ago I said there's no use going there. It is childish, waste of money. But who hears about us? We know moon planet is inhabited by high-class living entities. (laughs) (sarcastically:) And they will allow these rascals to go by their machine.