[Posted
March 19, 2007]
Don't
Come Back
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
 
Earthlings
to wear Buzz Lightyear space outfit and head bubble to protect against
harmful particles in Earth's atmosphere.
Wonder
if my cell phone's microwaves can pave my dusty driveway? |
 BBC
News
- Sun 18 March 2007 - PAUL RINCON Lunar dust 'may harm
astronauts'
Scientists
are investigating the possible threat posed to astronauts by inhaling
lunar dust.
"I discovered that if you put lunar soil in your microwave oven, next
to your tea, it will melt at 1,200C before your tea boils - which is a
magical thing," he [Professor Larry Taylor, director of the Planetary
Geosciences Institute at Tennessee] said.
This property is almost entirely due to a coupling effect between the
microwaves and the nano-phase iron in the dust.
The molten dust from the microwave treatment hardens into solid glass,
which has given rise to the idea that robots could be sent ahead of
human missions to "pave" landing pads and roads by firing microwaves at
the lunar soil.
Professor Taylor has come up with a concept for a wheeled vehicle, much
like an ice-rink resurfacer, that could perform the task, and has
developed a prototype microwave device that could be carried to the
Moon.
Paving the Moon would prevent dust being kicked up by the manned
spacecraft and vehicles which would follow to the surface, but some of
the finest dust may be "levitated" electro-statically above the
surface. This is relevant not only for the health of the astronauts,
but also for astronomy on the Moon.
"If they are going to do any work on the Moon, they don't want dust in
the way, so there is a big effort to minimise it," Dr Eimer told BBC
News.
He has been working on ways to filter dust out of habitation modules
and vacuum it up from the surface with devices that use magnets to
attract the lunar soil and dust. go to story
Dust
is all there is?
excerpt
from Answers to a Questionnaire from Bhavan's Journal, Vrindaban, June
28, 1976
|
Return
to the Moon 2020
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Failure
of the Moon Expedition A.C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami
Devotee
(3): Prabhupada, when they said they went to the moon and they showed
films of them landing and walking on the moon, was this all a bluff?
Prabhupada: Yes, here they... All laboratory work, that's all.
Devotee (3): They all made it up?
Prabhupada: Yes. more |
Prabhupada: Just like these people are
going
to the moon planet and.... Actually whether they have gone or not, that
is a doubtful thing, but the thing is, why they are coming down again?
That is our challenge. If you have gone to the moon planet then
colonise there. But why you have come down again and do not talk
anything about? What do you think?
Brahmatirtha: Well I couldn't
say. They've been there they say.
Prabhupada: They say, you
believe, but we are common man, lay man, we say that if you have gone
there, why you do not live there?
Brahmatirtha: Yes, they just
bring back rocks to show us, we have rocks here.
Prabhupada: If there is rock,
if there is sand, then why don't you colonise there? What is their
answer? If there is same sand, same rock there, then why not... [break]
...some money and can bring some sand and bluff people that you have
gone to moon planet. And people are satisfied, they're paying for
another excursion to the Mars. This is going on. If you have gone
there, there is land. If you fly in the sky and if you get a land then
you can stay there. And because you cannot stay there, you come back
again. So their... The Mayavadi's position is there, aruhya
kricchrena param, they merge into the impersonal Brahman but there
is no place to stay, they come down again to this material world. You
may go many thousands and millions of miles in the sky but you want to
stay somewhere. But if you cannot get any place to stay then again you
come to this Moscow and New York. So our enquiry is that if you have
gone there, then why don't you stay there? What is the answer? Hm?
Kirtanananda Maharaja?
Kirtanananda: They say the
atmosphere is not suitable.
Prabhupada: Then why, rascal,
you go there? [laughter] And spend so much money, rascal? You could not
understand the atmosphere is not good for us, go there and spend so
much money?
Brahmatirtha: They impress
the people.
Prabhupada: That means they
are bluffer and they bluffing the all fools and rascals. That's all. He
could not understand before going there, before spending so much money
the atmosphere is not good?
Hari-sauri: But without
personal, direct experience they...
Prabhupada: For your direct
whims you have to spend so much money? The people are so befooled they
do not challenge them. Yes. Everyone knows, suppose one is coming to
the western country, Europe and America, we knew it, that it is cold
country, we must take proper dress. And we have come and we are
staying. So this is knowledge. So if you do not know what is the
atmosphere there, what do you spend so much money? And again you are
going to the Mars. Are you fixed up what is the position there? Then
you'll again bring something, some dust and rock. [laughter] This
business will go on at the expense of the... You can do. You have got
money. You can do that. But we are Indians, we are coming from poor
country. If you spend so much money for nothing, that is very, not very
palatable for us. If one tenth of the expenditure you would have given
to us for spreading this Krishna consciousness movement... No. Not a
single paisa they will give. And they'll spoil money for going
to the moon planet and bring some dust. That's ... Kirtanananda
Maharaja is struggling to construct a small residential quarter here,
and he has to beg, he has to collect, he has done... Why the government
does not pay? "Here so many people are living. Let them live
comfortably." But they'll spend this money, millions of dollars [actual cost of the Apollo moon mission was estimated
at $25 billion, now more than 30 years ago], and to bring some
dust. Is that very sane government? And people are so fool that they do
not challenge the government, "Why you are spending for nothing?" They
can do that. They brought back Nixon. Why not stop this unnecessary
expenditure? Hm? Kirtanananda Maharaja?
Kirtanananda: It makes
perfect sense, Prabhupada.
Prabhupada: Yes. For nothing.
And it is sure certainly you can write down, their Mars going also will
be failure. Let it, you take in writing. I may die. I am old man. Take
it down. It will be failure. I told ten years before that "It is
childish." One press reporter inquired in San Francisco, what is
your... "No, this is childish, wasting money." The reporter came to see
me in Los Angeles. He remembered that. If you want to spend for nothing
like that, you can do that. You have got money.
Brahmatirtha: If you say to a
politician, "Give Srila Prabhupada money..." Like I said to one man
running for governor of this state, I said, "Why can't you help the
community in New Vrindaban?"
Prabhupada: Oh, you said?
Brahmatirtha: He cited to me
so many rules and regulations. They're not interested. They're
interested in pleasing themselves. A man runs for government, his whole
position to run for governor is to please himself so that he can become
rich.
Prabhupada: That's it. Here,
you are right. Sense gratification. Nobody wants to do anything. Nixon
captured the presidential post for his own satisfaction. And when the
people found that "Here is a trick," they agitated and got him down. So
this is the difficulty, that andha yathandhair upaniyamanas the
'pisha-tantryam uru-damni baddhah [Srimad-Bhagavatam
7.5.31]. We are blind and we are being guided by blind men. So the
result is catastrophe.
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