real problems of life-birth, death, old age and disease-and therefore all their programs are taking place on the utopian platform, which in Sanskrit is called  ākāśa-puṣpa .  Ākāśa-puṣpa  means "a flower from the sky." All their efforts to know the truth by exploring outer space are like trying to pluck a flower from the sky.
To give another example, the scientists act like foolish ducks. In India we may sometimes observe a duck following all day behind a bull. The duck is thinking that the testicles of the bull are a fish. In India this is a common sight. The bull is walking, and all day the duck is walking behind, following that big fish and thinking, "It will drop, and I will eat it."