Elon Musk plans to shoot satellites off the moon with a giant rail gun "To get another three orders of magnitude, 1,000x from a terawatt per year, the only way we can see achieving that is on the moon, with a mass driver. You do local production of photovoltaics and solar and radiators on the moon. You need most of the mass to be made on the moon, so you don't have to transport it from Earth" "Because the moon has no atmosphere and only one-sixth of Earth's gravity, you can accelerate the AI satellites into deep space without a rocket. You can basically shoot them into space using an electromagnetic gun, like a rail gun. It's basically a linear electric motor" "It would also mean that if we're bringing that amount of mass to the moon, anyone who wants to go to the moon will be able to go. I think everyone should go to the moon at least once. You can move there if you want. You can go live on the moon"