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public-synthesis:alternatives
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3eb036fce3d711336c8c605625895e8a2e799ab0
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2026-07-25
Primary records
11
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  1. page-synthesis · alternatives

    Alternatives & decision gates

    Record fingerprint
    c8b8eadeeee3aa5141b6320b0131871ddffc97f2b7a3969a57ff36bb6eb6bbf4
    Minimum approvals
    2
    Required scope groups
    domain-method: ethics-planetary-protection, governance-law-rights; rights-public-interest: affected-public-rights
    High-consequence domains
    governance
    Review state
    pending
    Published human decisions
    0
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    ID
    alternatives
    Packet
    alternatives
    Route
    /alternatives
    Title
    Alternatives & decision gates
    Eyebrow
    Alternatives & decision gates
    Heading
    Launch is only one outcome.
    Description
    Compare probes, habitats, waiting, Earth resilience, biological alternatives, non-expansion, and explicit launch, wait, stop, and do-not-launch outcomes.
    Authored Sections
    1. comparison boundary
    2. overtaking argument
    3. noncompensatory vetoes
    4. mission-level system gate
    5. decision dossier
    6. launch, wait, stop, abandon, and do-not-launch outcomes
    Notices And Boundaries
    1. The pathways are not interchangeable engineering options or formal evidence grades.
    2. A benefit in one column cannot compensate for a failed rights, safety, ecological, or legitimacy veto.
    Decision Rules
    1. A mission-level go requires every applicable capability gate and interface to pass.
    2. Prior approval cannot authorize a later irreversible architecture.
    3. Do not launch is a valid final outcome.
    Review Boundary
    Review the comparison frame, normative vetoes, dossier, and explicit outcomes separately from the ten pathway records and twenty system gates.
    What Would Change
    Plural rights, law, affected-public, ecological, planetary-protection, economic, or technical review could revise the comparison or add an alternative.
    Linked Record Keys
    1. alternative-pathway:*
    2. system:*
    3. academy-lesson:lesson-01-04
    4. academy-lesson:lesson-01-05
    Renderer Binding
    Schema Version
    gships-page-renderer-binding-1
    Status
    Source and rendered main bound (exact value: source-and-rendered-main-bound)
    Binding Fingerprint
    313c95d1cb2ae5ac6f9867bc94e69bd7220553677805b3b43beb416925d47693
    Source Aggregate Sha256
    fc3a0a0bf781db22318e37aebd48bc8e4f27b75260bffbe910256503b8106a5e
    Rendered Route Surface
    Route
    /alternatives
    Normalized Main Sha256
    7a8d03b7f4b307c18722a26b8185f591ce7bc59dba9eb49b2a59261614bbba88
    Normalized Main Bytes
    16546
  2. alternative-pathway · earth-resilience-first

    Earth resilience first

    Record fingerprint
    1e22b5b0d04d13ebc15ff2e6e51f1534bf240d32d7d6ba441c4961c7289244f3
    Minimum approvals
    1
    Required scope groups
    bounded-competence: affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection, systems-engineering
    High-consequence domains
    None under the named two-person rule
    Review state
    pending
    Published human decisions
    0
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    ID
    earth-resilience-first
    Name
    Earth resilience first
    Evidence And Readiness
    Observed and demonstrated components; operational to major scale-up
    Human Burden
    No voyage burden; direct present beneficiaries
    Reversibility
    High when projects are modular and locally governed
    Dual Use And Misuse
    Ordinary infrastructure, surveillance, cyber, and political risks still require controls
    Decisive Gate
    Prefer when it closes a more urgent need or when space work lacks an additional Earthside benefit.
  3. alternative-pathway · telescopes-and-robotic-probes

    Telescopes and robotic probes

    Record fingerprint
    3b4cb788f11577042c5786a8add6a43e25ed6fc947f00e26980dab42e69a24f9
    Minimum approvals
    1
    Required scope groups
    bounded-competence: affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection, systems-engineering
    High-consequence domains
    None under the named two-person rule
    Review state
    pending
    Published human decisions
    0
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    ID
    telescopes-and-robotic-probes
    Name
    Telescopes and robotic probes
    Evidence And Readiness
    Operational observation plus demonstrated robotic exploration; interstellar probes remain breakthrough-dependent
    Human Burden
    No inherited human confinement or reproductive obligation
    Reversibility
    High before launch; partial after launch; new probes can supersede old ones
    Dual Use And Misuse
    Autonomy, sensors, propulsion, beams, planetary defense, and surveillance can be dual use
    Decisive Gate
    Characterize destinations and precursor environments before exposing people or ecosystems.
  4. alternative-pathway · solar-system-habitats

    Solar System habitats

    Record fingerprint
    0dbc7115ef990565a3bbec31db32ab5bfd6736318e14a5b8527b4c21af12e284
    Minimum approvals
    1
    Required scope groups
    bounded-competence: affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection, systems-engineering
    High-consequence domains
    None under the named two-person rule
    Review state
    pending
    Published human decisions
    0
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    ID
    solar-system-habitats
    Name
    Solar System habitats
    Evidence And Readiness
    Short-duration habitats are demonstrated; durable closure and settlement remain major scale-up
    Human Burden
    Voluntary adult participation can retain communication, rescue, resupply, return, and changing membership
    Reversibility
    Higher than an interstellar commitment when exit and rescue remain real
    Dual Use And Misuse
    Habitat, nuclear, autonomy, mining, surveillance, and governance systems require review
    Decisive Gate
    Use only as reversible testbeds with participant rights; never market an analog as consent for descendants.
  5. alternative-pathway · faster-propulsion-and-braking-research

    Faster propulsion and braking research

    Record fingerprint
    7bcd32bf7239d7989f464b7daafe97ee5b7fe05a2b005020f25c2c86a7e98b99
    Minimum approvals
    1
    Required scope groups
    bounded-competence: affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection, systems-engineering
    High-consequence domains
    None under the named two-person rule
    Review state
    pending
    Published human decisions
    0
    Inspect the complete frozen review surface
    ID
    faster-propulsion-and-braking-research
    Name
    Faster propulsion and braking research
    Evidence And Readiness
    Separate component demonstrations and models; no integrated crewed stellar transport
    Human Burden
    Can shorten exposure only if acceleration, braking, shielding, heat, reliability, and mass close together
    Reversibility
    Research is reversible; launch infrastructure and destination commitment may not be
    Dual Use And Misuse
    High-energy beams, nuclear systems, antimatter, and autonomous infrastructure have serious dual-use risk
    Decisive Gate
    A faster cruise is not a mission until destination braking and all coupled systems are independently demonstrated.
  6. alternative-pathway · torpor-or-radical-longevity

    Torpor or radical longevity

    Record fingerprint
    6d6c23af23dd9ab84a6c059ac02b35f728b60eb43cc391e95027c2b646248374
    Minimum approvals
    1
    Required scope groups
    bounded-competence: affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection, systems-engineering
    High-consequence domains
    None under the named two-person rule
    Review state
    pending
    Published human decisions
    0
    Inspect the complete frozen review surface
    ID
    torpor-or-radical-longevity
    Name
    Torpor or radical longevity
    Evidence And Readiness
    Early research to breakthrough-dependent; no validated multidecade human state
    Human Burden
    May reduce active generations but creates continuous clinical care, consent, disability, failure, and revival burdens
    Reversibility
    Low after irreversible biological intervention or departure
    Dual Use And Misuse
    Medical coercion, experimentation, access inequality, and control over incapacitated people
    Decisive Gate
    Do not treat reduced headcount as reduced duty of care or a substitute for autonomous medicine.
  7. alternative-pathway · embryo-gamete-or-artificial-gestation

    Embryo, gamete, or artificial-gestation proposals

    Record fingerprint
    c21cd8d1ccd07e1828daad2188ab824117fed1b625bdd61c73feff0f72ca6a04
    Minimum approvals
    1
    Required scope groups
    bounded-competence: affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection, systems-engineering
    High-consequence domains
    None under the named two-person rule
    Review state
    pending
    Published human decisions
    0
    Inspect the complete frozen review surface
    ID
    embryo-gamete-or-artificial-gestation
    Name
    Embryo, gamete, or artificial-gestation proposals
    Evidence And Readiness
    No known integrated path for autonomous gestation, childhood, care, culture, and legitimate authority
    Human Burden
    Transfers the mission to children who cannot consent and requires unprecedented robotic and social guardianship
    Reversibility
    Very low after biological material is committed beyond rescue
    Dual Use And Misuse
    Reproductive control, eugenics, genetic selection, surveillance, and nonconsensual experimentation
    Decisive Gate
    Reject any architecture that needs coercion, hereditary status, disability exclusion, or children as instruments.
  8. alternative-pathway · digital-minds-or-uploading

    Digital minds or uploading

    Record fingerprint
    51f64d96af2eef1df46e810a6dd52c11d540593249f54a06c2584753911e2b05
    Minimum approvals
    1
    Required scope groups
    bounded-competence: affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection, systems-engineering
    High-consequence domains
    None under the named two-person rule
    Review state
    pending
    Published human decisions
    0
    Inspect the complete frozen review surface
    ID
    digital-minds-or-uploading
    Name
    Digital minds or uploading
    Evidence And Readiness
    Proposed and contested; no evidence establishes continuity of personhood or a validated upload
    Human Burden
    Could change mass and habitat assumptions only by changing who or what travels
    Reversibility
    Unknown; copying, deletion, identity, labor, and authority create new irreversibilities
    Dual Use And Misuse
    Mass surveillance, cognitive control, ownership, replication, impersonation, and cyber capture
    Decisive Gate
    Do not use an unresolved identity claim to erase duties to biological people or claim human settlement.
  9. alternative-pathway · self-replicating-robotic-industry

    Self-replicating robotic industry

    Record fingerprint
    29eb1be8cc0afff635bd8bfbdc8b35a72abaeb9d3d4139259e7168facb8fb510
    Minimum approvals
    1
    Required scope groups
    bounded-competence: affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection, systems-engineering
    High-consequence domains
    None under the named two-person rule
    Review state
    pending
    Published human decisions
    0
    Inspect the complete frozen review surface
    ID
    self-replicating-robotic-industry
    Name
    Self-replicating robotic industry
    Evidence And Readiness
    Bounded autonomous mining, manufacturing, repair, and robotics exist separately; open-ended closure is not demonstrated
    Human Burden
    May prepare infrastructure without crew, but still affects environments and future governance
    Reversibility
    Variable; uncontrolled replication or contamination can be difficult to recall
    Dual Use And Misuse
    Autonomous resource capture, replication, cyber compromise, weaponization, and planetary harm
    Decisive Gate
    Require strict resource, replication, shutdown, verification, jurisdiction, and planetary-protection controls.
  10. alternative-pathway · wait-and-preserve-the-option

    Wait and preserve the option

    Record fingerprint
    79c055222e67e778032b40568eebb5900cbbfb443fa42f8ee832fa531b68e8dc
    Minimum approvals
    1
    Required scope groups
    bounded-competence: affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection, systems-engineering
    High-consequence domains
    None under the named two-person rule
    Review state
    pending
    Published human decisions
    0
    Inspect the complete frozen review surface
    ID
    wait-and-preserve-the-option
    Name
    Wait and preserve the option
    Evidence And Readiness
    Operational as a decision; benefits depend on what is learned or built meanwhile
    Human Burden
    Avoids premature inherited burdens while knowledge, legitimacy, and safer capabilities improve
    Reversibility
    High when archives, institutions, and reversible research are maintained
    Dual Use And Misuse
    Delay can still entrench institutions or enable hazardous infrastructure without scrutiny
    Decisive Gate
    Set explicit reopening dates and evidence thresholds; waiting is not passive neglect.
  11. alternative-pathway · deliberate-non-expansion

    Deliberate non-expansion

    Record fingerprint
    fb5f361340e6ddad39689ebb2d72e570b8bfc8fae8e7feba48ec4d62d7afd133
    Minimum approvals
    1
    Required scope groups
    bounded-competence: affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection, systems-engineering
    High-consequence domains
    None under the named two-person rule
    Review state
    pending
    Published human decisions
    0
    Inspect the complete frozen review surface
    ID
    deliberate-non-expansion
    Name
    Deliberate non-expansion
    Evidence And Readiness
    Normative and politically available now
    Human Burden
    Avoids imposing a stellar settlement project; opportunity costs shift to Earth and Solar System choices
    Reversibility
    A no-launch decision can be revisited, but destroyed ecosystems, rights, and budgets may not be restored
    Dual Use And Misuse
    Reduces some deployment risks but does not remove Earthside technology misuse
    Decisive Gate
    Choose when rights, destination duties, public legitimacy, opportunity cost, or safer alternatives remain decisive.
Equivalent record table for this packet
RecordSubjectFingerprintApprovalsScope groups
page-synthesis:alternatives Alternatives & decision gates c8b8eadeeee3aa5141b6320b0131871ddffc97f2b7a3969a57ff36bb6eb6bbf4 2 domain-method: ethics-planetary-protection, governance-law-rights; rights-public-interest: affected-public-rights
alternative-pathway:earth-resilience-first Earth resilience first 1e22b5b0d04d13ebc15ff2e6e51f1534bf240d32d7d6ba441c4961c7289244f3 1 bounded-competence: affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection, systems-engineering
alternative-pathway:telescopes-and-robotic-probes Telescopes and robotic probes 3b4cb788f11577042c5786a8add6a43e25ed6fc947f00e26980dab42e69a24f9 1 bounded-competence: affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection, systems-engineering
alternative-pathway:solar-system-habitats Solar System habitats 0dbc7115ef990565a3bbec31db32ab5bfd6736318e14a5b8527b4c21af12e284 1 bounded-competence: affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection, systems-engineering
alternative-pathway:faster-propulsion-and-braking-research Faster propulsion and braking research 7bcd32bf7239d7989f464b7daafe97ee5b7fe05a2b005020f25c2c86a7e98b99 1 bounded-competence: affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection, systems-engineering
alternative-pathway:torpor-or-radical-longevity Torpor or radical longevity 6d6c23af23dd9ab84a6c059ac02b35f728b60eb43cc391e95027c2b646248374 1 bounded-competence: affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection, systems-engineering
alternative-pathway:embryo-gamete-or-artificial-gestation Embryo, gamete, or artificial-gestation proposals c21cd8d1ccd07e1828daad2188ab824117fed1b625bdd61c73feff0f72ca6a04 1 bounded-competence: affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection, systems-engineering
alternative-pathway:digital-minds-or-uploading Digital minds or uploading 51f64d96af2eef1df46e810a6dd52c11d540593249f54a06c2584753911e2b05 1 bounded-competence: affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection, systems-engineering
alternative-pathway:self-replicating-robotic-industry Self-replicating robotic industry 29eb1be8cc0afff635bd8bfbdc8b35a72abaeb9d3d4139259e7168facb8fb510 1 bounded-competence: affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection, systems-engineering
alternative-pathway:wait-and-preserve-the-option Wait and preserve the option 79c055222e67e778032b40568eebb5900cbbfb443fa42f8ee832fa531b68e8dc 1 bounded-competence: affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection, systems-engineering
alternative-pathway:deliberate-non-expansion Deliberate non-expansion fb5f361340e6ddad39689ebb2d72e570b8bfc8fae8e7feba48ec4d62d7afd133 1 bounded-competence: affected-public-rights, ethics-planetary-protection, systems-engineering

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