> (A meditation for Vyasa-puja)
>
> Srila Prabhupada was firm in his determination to uphold the Vedic
> statements even in the face of apparent contradictions due to modern
> scientific research. The Vedas, coming directly from God, are perfect in
> every respect and therefore are not subject to fault, like the statements
> of ordinary, conditioned souls. Although the scientists might try to
> substantiate their claims with impressive "facts," their information would
> always be defective on account of their imperfect senses, liability to
> make mistakes, tendency to become illusioned, and propensity for cheating.
> God is perfect, and whatever He says is similarly perfect. His statements,
> known as the Vedas, are called sruti, and one who repeats exactly what he
> has heard from his spiritual master in disciplic succession from God,
> without any concoction or change, is known as a bona fide guru: srotriyam
> brahma-nistham. Even at the expense of being laughed at as a follower of
> blind superstition, Prabhupada was not going to "sell out" just to please
> some modern, so-called learned men. He had full faith that what he had
> heard from his Guru Maharaja was perfect, and to reproduce it accurately
> was his highest qualification.
>
> From Servant of the Servant Ch. 8 by TKG.

To follow up on the above posting, here's some latest revelation that
vindicates Srila Prabhupada's statements on the infamous lunar landing
mission.

The US government has just admitted that they have lost all their "original
recordings" of the Apollo lunar missions. In other words, more lies from the
same authorities who foisted the original Big Lie on the entire world --
they never went to the Moon, as Srila Prabhupada consistently pointed out.

For those who have firm faith in Srila Prabhupada's statements, the
following news comes as no surprise. But those who actually believed that
the Americans went to the Moon, this news (filed by Reuters yesterday)
should come as a shocker.

That 700 boxes of material recording mankind's greatest "scientific
achievement" have been "misplaced" by the same government who proudly
claimed credit for that "scientific achievement". Read "misplaced" as
missing, quite certainly, permanently.

At a time when more and more people, even within America, are beginning to
question the authenticity of the Moon landing, especially in the light of
conspiracy theories and documentaries on the subject being highlighted by
the media in recent years, the US government would certainly find it
convenient to have their "original recordings" go missing.

At least now they have a simple answer to probing questions: "Sorry, we have
lost the original tapes."


Your servant,
Goloka Candra dasa

World Updates
August 15, 2006
NASA can't find original tape of moon landing

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has misplaced the original
recording of the first moon landing, including astronaut Neil Armstrong's
famous "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," a NASA
spokesman said on Monday.

Armstrong's famous space walk, seen by millions of viewers on July 20, 1969,
is among transmissions that NASA has failed to turn up in a year of
searching, spokesman Grey Hautaloma said.

"We haven't seen them for quite a while. We've been looking for over a year
and they haven't turned up," Hautaloma said.

The tapes also contain data about the health of the astronauts and the
condition of the spacecraft. In all, some 700 boxes of transmissions from
the Apollo lunar missions are missing, he said.

"I wouldn't say we're worried -- we've got all the data. Everything on the
tapes we have in one form or another," Hautaloma said.

NASA has retained copies of the television broadcasts and offers several
clips on its Web site.

But those images are of lower quality than the originals stored on the
missing magnetic tapes.

Because NASA's equipment was not compatible with TV technology of the day,
the original transmissions had to be displayed on a monitor and re-shot by a
TV camera for broadcast.

Hautaloma said it is possible the tapes will be unplayable even if they are
found, because they have degraded significantly over the years -- a problem
common to magnetic tape and other types of recordable media.

The material was held by the National Archives but returned to NASA sometime
in the late 1970s, he said.

"We're looking for paperwork to see where they last were," he said.


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