Morning Walk Conversation
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
January 20, 1974, Hawaii

Prabhupada: The pilots do not like to go?

Nitai: There’s nothing for them to do there.

Satsvarupa: There’s no life there, they want to go where there may be life. Now they know there’s no life there; so there’s no point in going. There may be life on Mars.

Prabhupada: Then let them go. They are life. And colonize. Where is life? Which planet, they say, there is life?

Nitai: Venus and Mars. They suspect life on those planets, especially Mars.

Prabhupada: So they are going there?

Sudama: Yeah, they’re making plans to go there.

Nitai: It’s quite a bit further than the moon. They watch through their telescopes and every year they see that the surface of the planet changes, that there’s certain dark areas which grow and then they recede.

Prabhupada: Every day, every year changes? Why?

Nitai: Well, it appears to be like seasons. First they grow big, and then they grow small, then they grow big.

Prabhupada: Moon planet?

Nitai: No, this is the Martian… They call them “the Martian canals.” So they think that although the life there may not be like we have here, that there may be some living beings there. They consider… What they consider living being is something that could live on this planet. That’s what they consider living. So they think that Mars and Venus, because they’re very close to this planet—out of all the planets that they know, those two are the closest—that on those two planets, there may be life like on this planet. (end)