"Those who are bewildered are attracted by demoniac and atheistic views. In that deluded condition, their hopes for liberation, their fruitive activities and their culture of knowledge are all defeated." (Bg. 9.12) Because they are bewildered, all their hopes are frustrated. That is stated here in  Bhagavad-gītā , and that is actually happening. So many of their big plans, like this moon project, are frustrated, but they still claim that they can dominate nature.
Dr. Singh.  They do not want to come to their senses..
Śrīla Prabhupāda . Therefore they are rascals..
Scientists Bravely Going to Hell!!
Šrīla Prabhupāda.  A sensible man will take a good lesson, but a rascal will never take a good lesson. There is a story of a great poet named Kālidāsa, who was a great rascal also. Once, Kālidāsa was sitting on the branch of a tree and simultaneously cutting it. A gentleman asked him, "Why are you cutting this tree limb? You will fall down."
Kālidāsa replied, "No, no, I will not fall down." So he kept cutting the limb, and he fell down. The conclusion is that he was a rascal because he would not take good advice. By their so-called scientific advancement, scientists are going to hell. But they do not listen when they are told; therefore they are rascals. Rascals repeatedly make a plan, see it frustrated, and again make another plan. This plan is also frustrated, so they make  another  plan. Yet when we try to explain to them that all their materialistic plans will be unsuccessful and useless, they refuse to listen. That is rascaldom. The rascals repeatedly chew the chewed. At home, in the street, at the nightclub, at the theater-wherever he is, sex in its different varieties is his only pleasure.
Student.  Šrīla Prabhupāda, one could say that that is bravery..
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  Yes, you can  say  that, but that bravery is their rascaldom. They are bravely going to hell, that's all. Once, one man was chasing another man, and the man who was chasing asked, "Why are you fleeing? Are you afraid of me?" The other man replied, "I am not afraid of you. Why should I  not  run? Why should I stop?"
In the same way, the gross materialist is bravely going to hell. "Why should I stop with my sinful activities?" he says. "I will Bravely face any reaction."
Dr. Singh , They are crazy...
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  Yes, crazy. The  Vedas  say that once a man becomes crazy, or haunted by ghosts, he speaks all kinds of nonsense. Similarly, anyone under the influence of the material energy is crazy. Therefore he talks only nonsense, that's all. Though scientists are not expert in science, they  are  expert in bluffing others and juggling words.
Mystic Television
Dr. Singh.  They now have things they did not have before, like telephones, televisions, airplanes, missiles and many other new discoveries.
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  But there are better telephones that they do not know about. In  Bhagavad-gītā , Sañjaya demonstrated this when he was sitting with his master, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, and relating all the affairs that were taking place far away on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra. Sañjaya's vision was actually greater than the telephone. It was mystic television. It was television within the heart, for he was sitting in a room far from the battlefield and still seeing everything that was occurring there. In  Bhagavad-gītā , Dhṛtarāṣṭra inquired of Sañjaya, "How are my sons and nephews? What are they doing?" Then Sañjaya described how Duryodhana was going to