What the author thinks of his own premise: "The real problem is how to get free of birth, death, old age and disease. This cannot be solved by simply wasting time traveling within this universe. Even if one goes to the highest planet, this problem cannot be solved, for there is death everywhere."

Maybe the most frustrating passage I've read in years: "If one wants to go there, he must simply become Kṛṣṇa conscious and try to understand how Kṛṣṇa appears and disappears, what His constitutional position is, what our constitutional position is, what our relationship with Him is, and how to live." HOW?!! He goes on, irritatingly: "Simply try to understand these ideas scientifically. Everything in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is scientific. It is not bogus, whimsical, sentimental, fanatical or imaginary. It is truth, fact, reality. One must understand Kṛṣṇa in truth."
Really? No doubt at all? How do we DO any of the things you say must be done? How does drumming in the street and letting vegetarian food get cold in front of a statue you poured honey on all morning before sunrise accomplish anything? It's not fanatical or imaginary to rely on something as old as the Vedas to confirm what are recent discoveries? Why wasn't space travel possible in India for 5000 years if Sanskrit texts are the "True Source" of knowledge about this?

Plus, what is worse -- I wanted to see Saturn and you lied to me.