[Posted
August 30, 2009]
BBC News Aug 28, 2009
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SVARUP DAMODAR: Actually the rocks are being distributed all over the world.
PRABHUPADA: Ah?
SVARUP DAMODAR: For analysis. Little portion of the rock that they have brought from different stratas, they have distributed all over the world. And the report is coming that a portion of the elements [indistinct], so from there they calculate how old the moon is. It's about the same age as the earth, about 4.5 million years.
PRABHUPADA: They say similar rocks are available here.
SVARUP DAMODAR: Yes.
PRABHUPADA: Then why they bother about bringing rock from there?
SVARUP DAMODAR: To investigate more.
PRABHUPADA: What is investigation? Simply bluff.
HARI-SAURI: Similar rocks are available here, because the same rock was taken from here.
TAMAL KRSNA: Prabhupada 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 Prabhupada 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.
HARI-SAURI: 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.
PRABHUPADA: 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.
SVARUP DAMODAR: We're going to have a difficult time, with the scientists, about the moon.
PRABHUPADA: Hm?
SVARUP DAMODAR: We're going to have a difficult time about this moon and the sun relationship.
PRABHUPADA: Nobody could answer a simple question. According to Vedic astronomical calculations, sun is first.
SVARUP DAMODAR: But does it have to do anything with distance, Prabhupada?
PRABHUPADA: Hmm?
SVARUP DAMODAR: Does it have to do anything with the distance? As the sun is recorded first?
PRABHUPADA: 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?
SVARUP DAMODAR: No, on that ground it is reasonable to know that they couldn't go there, but...
PRABHUPADA: 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.