# GShips offline review-notes worksheet Status: blank notes companion; not a decision bundle Packet: `systems:ethics-alternatives` Packet SHA-256: `93f6b474c1088873f7670a431bc86a58cb6f0fb7ea61119a1611b7328d056d3a` Release: `public-alpha-2026-07-26-research-visuals-r14` Source commit: `3eb036fce3d711336c8c605625895e8a2e799ab0` This readable worksheet is for local notes only. It cannot satisfy the closed decision-bundle schema and is not input to the validator. Use the fingerprinted JSON template for any future structured decision. This worksheet appoints nobody and records no completed review. Do not put identity documents, private contact data, medical or accessibility records, confidential conflict evidence, controlled material, or exploit details here. Keep notes offline until a separately authorized private handoff exists. ## Reviewer declaration Opaque public reviewer ID: Public label: Controlled scope codes: Qualification basis: Independence status and bounded basis: Conflict public summary: Compensation status and public summary: AI assistance and human-verification statement: Publication consent selections: ## 1. Ethics, alternatives & decision gates - Record: `system:ethics-alternatives` - Record SHA-256: `26d441fab037ca844574808a36eeb2af90f2fefe25bb571d8c8793c3249dd9ec` - Public record: /systems/ethics-alternatives - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 2. The program must preserve the option never to launch; success may be proving that robotic probes, Solar System habitats, Earth resilience, waiting, or non-expansion are better. - Record: `claim:claim-19-01` - Record SHA-256: `32805ff9263f5247d2560948101a3f89acb60792d5c3e7c8ba6e23be6259d0c4` - Public record: /claims/claim-19-01 - Minimum independent approvals: 2 - Required scope groups: domain-method (ethics-planetary-protection, governance-law-rights); rights-public-interest (affected-public-rights) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 3. Robotic probes remove the life-support, reproduction, and confinement burden and provide a lower-rights-burden precursor; treating them as the priority is a normative recommendation, not a technical fact. - Record: `claim:claim-19-02` - Record SHA-256: `cd9d83e9969963c59f833a15640009ae664e3439f8508c61085ae739fc0ef7fb` - Public record: /claims/claim-19-02 - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 4. Solar System habitats can test many enabling systems with shorter communication and possible rescue, but do not directly validate centuries of duration, interstellar gas and dust, or multigenerational institutional continuity. - Record: `claim:claim-19-03` - Record SHA-256: `2f9d99d2205a1d1fc6cb6017c64ebba6a7855fe37d5107530e49906243030f9c` - Public record: /claims/claim-19-03 - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 5. Torpor, embryo architectures, mind uploading, self-replication, and radical longevity have different evidence and ethical boundaries and must be assessed separately; none currently closes a generation-ship mission. - Record: `claim:claim-19-04` - Record SHA-256: `2fe7feff6613e211ffb99ecb14921cc121aa84a703f6522408c4f350a569a43b` - Public record: /claims/claim-19-04 - Minimum independent approvals: 2 - Required scope groups: domain-method (clinical-health, ethics-planetary-protection); rights-public-interest (affected-public-rights) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 6. The value of geographic redundancy must be weighed against contamination, coercion, weaponization, and opportunity cost. - Record: `claim:claim-19-05` - Record SHA-256: `868ebb8ae52bf864c4946744e5502906415fb15f62cda6b472a07b9325853cb1` - Public record: /claims/claim-19-05 - Minimum independent approvals: 2 - Required scope groups: domain-method (dual-use-risk, ethics-planetary-protection, governance-law-rights); rights-public-interest (affected-public-rights) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 7. Gigawatt beams, nuclear systems, asteroid movement, autonomous mining, synthetic biology, and replication have serious dual-use potential. - Record: `claim:claim-19-06` - Record SHA-256: `29e89a4852ad65b9f284304aeecd72e308d34de824d175dd7fa42b632d689ed9` - Public record: /claims/claim-19-06 - Minimum independent approvals: 2 - Required scope groups: domain-method (defensive-cyber-safety, dual-use-risk, ethics-planetary-protection, governance-law-rights, nuclear-safety); rights-public-interest (affected-public-rights) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 8. No private organization can legitimately claim to act for all humanity. - Record: `claim:claim-19-07` - Record SHA-256: `ab2c3b19dad8592ab24b3613274232c687ba84ed49d684f0b119f9665a5d0d48` - Public record: /claims/claim-19-07 - Minimum independent approvals: 2 - Required scope groups: domain-method (ethics-planetary-protection, governance-law-rights); rights-public-interest (affected-public-rights) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 9. A reversible, option-preserving roadmap directs investment toward water, food, health, autonomy, and governance that help now. - Record: `claim:claim-19-08` - Record SHA-256: `e7e5ccd25f5207c8418f6fd8ecf0c7f84d41ad65778db6ee2bfae739bcfc4c24` - Public record: /claims/claim-19-08 - Minimum independent approvals: 2 - Required scope groups: domain-method (dual-use-risk, ethics-planetary-protection, governance-law-rights); rights-public-interest (affected-public-rights) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 10. Explicit stop rules and red teams counter sunk-cost escalation and megaproject hype. - Record: `claim:claim-19-09` - Record SHA-256: `43e7a5b57152cdf833a12d0446329c9b148c244b43d335dba9feefe6285fd9d7` - Public record: /claims/claim-19-09 - Minimum independent approvals: 2 - Required scope groups: domain-method (dual-use-risk, ethics-planetary-protection, governance-law-rights); rights-public-interest (affected-public-rights) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 11. At every major stage, rerun launch, wait, habitat, probe, and do-not-go alternatives; treat pause or abandonment as valid outcomes. - Record: `claim:claim-19-10` - Record SHA-256: `47b15ed3c825ade63115963137b3e62f9392d2cde38ee2c97ce4bafb49f5eedf` - Public record: /claims/claim-19-10 - Minimum independent approvals: 2 - Required scope groups: domain-method (ethics-planetary-protection, governance-law-rights); rights-public-interest (affected-public-rights) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 12. Export Administration Regulations - Record: `claim-source:src-cd-bis-ear` - Record SHA-256: `622d3178f5899e5fcb02ff404fcd533a9408344fbf538e9263f441a5e8467b87` - Public record: https://www.bis.gov/regulations/ear - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 13. Nuclear Security - Record: `claim-source:src-cd-iaea-nuclear-security` - Record SHA-256: `60f87f44a4c371347b1b1084d686ee508d40ae5372a42e16c25a313d69a297e1` - Public record: https://www.iaea.org/topics/nuclear-security - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 14. Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) - Record: `claim-source:src-cd-nasa-dart` - Record SHA-256: `47d50a22dd5d5414efdb9f56a59aa079da39030a4bbac4fe0010e7e0e6e126b8` - Public record: https://science.nasa.gov/planetary-defense-dart/ - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 15. Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Record: `claim-source:src-pa-un-udhr` - Record SHA-256: `76b5e1ece5856aeab6c21041a99a08471e25a38c6e310eeb39620a6ec3c68044` - Public record: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 16. Relativistic Generalization of the Incentive Trap of Interstellar Travel - Record: `claim-source:src-po-heller-overtaking` - Record SHA-256: `106323d3c29531ff4a283de4ed1bbb882bd5246f5ba1a3f8f52d44ffc46710d4` - Public record: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.01481 - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 17. Advancing Torpor Inducing Transfer Habitats for Human Stasis to Mars - Record: `claim-source:src-po-nasa-techport-torpor` - Record SHA-256: `4554887675fd550fe9fc3730d177f554677183df5aa38712eac13e947549ffb5` - Public record: https://techport.nasa.gov/projects/88911 - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: