Prabhupāda: First of all to go there, two million miles away?
Śyāmasundara: It is near nine, nine million miles.
Prabhupāda: Nine million. So the gasoline taken from here nine million to come back. That is the problem.
Hanumān: It is not exactly gasoline; it is solid. It is solid gasoline, Prabhupāda. It is solid, a kind of . . . very chemical . . .
Śyāmasundara: Yes.
Hanumān: . . . it is not exactly the same kind of chemical. And for a while also the Sputnik, they worked with the . . . the those . . . (indistinct) . . . in other words, they . . .
Prabhupāda: So why the astronauts are taking so much trouble? Why don't they stay? And they do not take this Kṛṣṇa consciousness and go back to home? (laughter) What is the profit by doing such business, by bringing petrol from moon planet and use it here and drive motorcar? Why they are taking so much trouble?
Hanumān: Because they are rascals. (laughter)
Indian Guest: One more thing Swamiji . . . they say why there is no living entities, because if there are any living entities then there would be some changes on the surface of the moon. Because whenever there is the living entities, there would be something there, actively, and so the actual surface of the moon would be changed. But they don't see any changes there, if there is animals. They would do some kind of activities . . .
Prabhupāda: There is no trees or . . . (indistinct)
Indian Guest: Only a rock, plain rock.
Prabhupāda: But here, so far we have already seen it, rock is reserve of living entities.