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Hmm, Lunar Prospector mapped resources on the moon useful for future human presense, and BTW crashed into the purported deposit to be sure. It happened to carry a non-instrument extra payload, a small quantity of biological material supplied in a sealed container by an outsider and never checked in detail, with only a 2nd-hand documentation of where it came from and how it was prepared.

— Hey, wouldn't it be cool if you could pack remains of a noted scientist as one of your ballance weights? — Sure, cool indeed! Bring it over.

What's really in the vial? Is it too much of a coincidence that it was carefully delivered to a source of ice at the lunar pole, after studying for the best place to drop it?

It happens to be where the sun never shines, and at the pole it is not far to the hidden backside.

The recent increase in observation of transient lunar light flashes is just because of more telescopes w/video recording, right? It used to be that flashes of light in the dark face of the moon (and occasional red bursts) was "unconfirmed" and only tall tales told by amateurs. But now bright flashes are seen and recorded by pros. Impact event, or mining operations to get materials that are hard to find or prepare access shafts uniformly distributed over the lunar maria?

Strange readings only lately suggest that the moon isn't quite as dead and solid as presumed — what's with that?

The more I look into it, the more it looks like it could really be true!

Gotta go: my Internet connextion is acting funny all, of a sudden... and the Wikipedia page is “having issues”…