Lunar Mission Proposal - The Flypaper Observer

Today we have with us, a group of students, among America's best. To you we say we have only completed a beginning. We leave you much that is undone. There are great ideas undiscovered. Breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of truths protective layers.
Neil Armstrong, Speech, at The White House, 1994, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.



One can only find it wondrous weird, that at the time of this writing, early in the 21st century, that armed only with a lease back laptop, and a half decent internet connection, one can readily stir up Google Earth and check out any place upon the planet Earth, in rather breath taking resolution in the great majority of cases.  But if you want to do the same thing as regards to any place on the Earth's moon, good luck with that!
 

The Moon - Earth's Cosmological Flypaper...

 All the Oracle of Ottawa can get is those medium resolution (at best) mosiacs by the Lunar Society! You would think that all those greatly talked about high resolution Lunar Orbiter images would have been declassified decades ago, and in turn available to every one with access to the internet, in their entirety.  But that might be true, just that the Oracle of Ottawa can't seem to find them. Why do you think that is Dear Reader?

It has become clear to me recently that all higher life forms through out the Universe will have several things in common, no matter their differences in biological origin and/ or appearance. Let us go over a few of them. First is that all higher life forms fabricate stuff. The higher the life form, the bigger and more voluminous the stuff fabricated. Secondly all higher life forms litter! This may ironically be the one thing that all life forms of the Universe have in common.  Thirdly higher life forms love to build tributes to their awesomeness! And again the higher the life form the more grand the artifacts.  

The Moon is 4.5 billion years old, slightly younger than the planet Earth. We the people of the planet Earth were gifted by the Force with something very valuable. A piece of cosmological flypaper. In 4.5 billion years what do you think the chances are that something and or someone crashed, built, fought over, destroyed, rebuilt, harvested and left the wreckage behind? In 4.5 billion years what are the chances that some higher life form claimed the moon with the construction of a very grand monument to their awesomeness? The Oracle of Ottawa would have to say, greater than 50 -50 easy.  
(Google - Moon Shard)
 

 What the Oracle is saying is that if I can see the painted parking lines that are a mere 4 inches wide (really, I measured!) on Google Earth for my hood in Ottawa Ontario, why is it that we can't arrange the same coverage of the Moon? Can't something be arranged that will map the shit out of the Moon and put all the images out to crowd sourcing Earth wide? Wouldn't it be great to show your grand children where Apollo 11 landed? (It did really land on the Moon didn't it?) And I figure that there are a ton of fascinating artifacts to be found. What the hell are we afraid of ? Think of the paradigm technological leaps we could make in one fell swoop! Just by cataloging these artifacts and sending up a rover with a hand held X-ray spectrometer?

Of course the whole thing could be a bust, in that we discover some of the most interesting naturally occurring  geologic anomalies known in the Universe so far. In that case the Oracle of Ottawa will revert back to his existentialist kick, and read that first edition copy of Being and Nothingness by Sarte. (With the original dust jacket of course!) With the greatest comfort in that at least, even as an old man, I stepped into the arena...