For half a century, astronomers have dreamed of listening to the universe from a place beyond Earth's electromagnetic din — and the far side of the moon has always been that place. Now, a team at the University of Oxford has formalized the dream into a proposal: a radio telescope on the lunar far side, operational before 2030, when a new wave of orbital traffic will close the window of silence forever. At $150 million and twenty weeks of observation time, the Lunar Farside Transients and Technology Telescope represents not merely a scientific instrument, but perhaps humanity's last unhurried c