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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does it actually have to maintain physical integrity as a single structure? If it's not got a vacuum chamber due to relying on the ambient vacuum, then each section of magnets need not physically touch, so the individual components need only use some of the energy from their power source to actively steer themselves into formation rather than rely on material strength to hold together.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I would expect so on the basis of precision. At scales that large, space itself becomes an unreliable medium...