space vehicles will never be able to carryhuman beings to outer

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> > Could anyone, please, give some light on the following Prabhupada

> > statement?

> >

> > "Man-made satellites and mechanical space vehicles will never be able to

> > carry human beings to the planets of outer space. Men cannot even go on

> > their much-advertised trips to the moon, for, as we have already stated,

> > the atmosphere on such higher planets is different from the atmosphere

> > here on earth." Easy Journey to Other Planets

>

> I think it means that rockets can't transport people to higher planets, or

> even lower planets. And so far we have seen this is true. Apart from the

> scaled moonlanding that everyone knows was hoax, there has never been

 

In this quote key factor seems to be atmosphere. If i remember properly, one

explanation says that going to the moon in space suit is not really going to

the moon, becaue you still have to carry earth environment with you, and

pack it in your small space suit. So although you may be on the moon, you

are actually not on the moon. It is like licking honey through glass. It is

soooo close, almost there, but still not there yet.

 

Some say, that they never went to moon, others agree, that they may have

succeded. Srila Prabhupada commented on both ideas. In any case, going there

in a micro-earthly-bubble is not really being there, and from your

earthly-bubble and with your earthly trained senses you surely cannot

perceive moon properly. To really be there and perceive things, one needs to

take birth there in another body, as a transmigration of the soul.

 

your servant Giri-nayaka das