RE: space vehicles will never be able to carryhuman beings

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The main point, to my understanding that the planetary realms as experienced

by the demigods is not accessible to the gross bodies of human beings and

mechanical space craft.

 

 

 

> > > 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