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> Would it not be easier to build this in the ocean?

The Moon is a natural vacuum. That presumably simplifies some design elements.

And as the paper mentions, the lunar night is naturally at superconducting temperatures: no cooling required.




> The Moon is a natural vacuum.

The moon is also naturally covered in microabrasive, statically charged dust, that will happily annihilate any piece of equipment we put there, that is more complex than a lunar rover from the early 70s, in a matter of days.




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