Prabhupāda: All right, you can get everything. You will do it. But why don't you do it for yourself that you will not die?
Satsvarūpa: They'll say: "That's all right. I'm working for posterity so that people who come in future generations . . ."
Prabhupāda: What posterity? You cannot take help from your machine. What posterity you will take? It is nonsense. You are starving, and you, you want to speak that, "I will distribute prasādam." What is this nonsense? You are starving, and you are proud of distributing food to others. Is that very good reason, a reasonable proposal? What . . .? First of all, you stop your starvation. Then you can say: "Now I have stopped my starvation, I'll distribute food to the hungry men."
Siddha-svarūpānanda: All the scientists and leaders are all like that. They don't have the vaguest idea. They don't have the vaguest idea . . .
Prabhupāda: Therefore we . . .
Siddha-svarūpānanda: . . . of anything.
Prabhupāda: . . . call them rascals and fools. They may advertise themselves as scientist, but we take them as rascals and fools.
Siddha-svarūpānanda: Some of them so much want to be God, they're thinking they're going to create life and make bodies and this and that.
Prabhupāda: The only question is that first of all, keep your life. Then you create another life. Life in you is already there. Now keep it. Protect it by some machine or by some chemical. Then you talk all this nonsense. What do you think, Viṣṇujana Mahārāja?
Viṣṇujana: At the fairs in the United States, they have exhibits of what the scientists are doing, and one scientist has actually invented a machine, costs one hundred thousand dollars, and this machine can take the head of a man from his body and keep the brain cells still going. And they expect that this machine, they expect . . . they haven't done it to anyone because no one will do it . . .
Prabhupāda: That expectation is always there. Any fool can expect anything. That is another thing.
Viṣṇujana: But they've done it with goat head.
Prabhupāda: We are concerned what you are doing now. That's all. We are not for expectation, future hope. We do not believe in that, "Trust no future, however pleasant." It may be pleasant to you, but we don't believe it. You rascals, you can feel, but history shows that after death, no brain works. So we take this simple conclusion, that this brain is useless. So am I right or wrong?
Siddha-svarūpānanda: You are right.
Prabhupāda: Sudāmā Vipra, you are very critical. You can say. Am I right or wrong?
Sudāmā Vipra: You're right. (laughter)
Prabhupāda: Thank you. That's . . . Svarūpa Dāmodara asked the scientist that, "You are beginning life from chemicals. Suppose I give you chemicals. Can you make life?" "That I cannot say." This is their proposal. This is their . . . all rascals. And they're wasting public money and making other fools. They're going to the Candraloka and this loka, Venus. Simply wasting time. This remark I gave in the newspapers sometimes in San Francisco . . .
Siddha-svarūpānanda: When they asked about the moon.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. It is simply waste of time and energy, that's all. And in 1968 I wrote that Easy Journey, "And this is all childish."
Siddha-svarūpānanda: Sputniks.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Have you read that?
Siddha-svarūpānanda: Yes, yes. It is very nice.
Prabhupāda: So we can boldly say on the strength of Vedic literature that all these attempts are childish, and those who are attempting, they're all fools and rascals. That's all. Now they're silent about moon expedition. They're trying to go to Venus. What happened to moon, moon planet?
Siddha-svarūpānanda: Yeah, right.
Prabhupāda: Another diversion, that's all.