Why it matters, objective
Independently survivable human worlds
Settlements beyond Earth that could sustain people if resupply stopped. The derived metric counts them.
- Depends on
- 1
- Depended on by
- 0
- Metrics
- 1
Neighbourhood: what depends on it (left), what it depends on (right)
- Candidate
- Hypothesized
- Mechanism supported
- Causally supported
- Established relation
Systems that would feel a shortage
Downstream: what depends on it
Nothing stored depends on this entity.
Inputs it cannot do without
Upstream: what it depends on
Independently survivable human worlds depends on Space launch capacity3 evidenceMechanism supported
Independently survivable human worlds depends on Space launch capacity.
Mechanism
Any settlement beyond Earth is delivered and resupplied by launch; mass to orbit per year bounds what can be built there.
Evidence
- documentNASA, Humans in Spacenasa.govCrewed missions and their launch and resupply dependence.checked 2026-09-07
- sourceNASA (seeded source)checked 2026-09-07
- metricindependently-survivable-human-worlds
- Status
- mechanism_supported
- Reviewer confidence
- 0.85
- Stated strength
- 0.90
- Lag
- not stated
- Version
- curated_seed_v1
- Reviewed
- 2026-09-07
Confidence and strength are curated judgements recorded with the edge, not measured quantities.
Measured, from the catalog
Linked metrics
measures WLD
1worldsperiod 2026
Named on the edges that depend on it
Substitutes
No substitute is named for this entity on any stored edge.
Derived from curated edges
Bottleneck centrality
- Score
- 0.00
- Downstream entities
- 0
- Direct dependents
- 0
Sum over every entity downstream (within six hops) of the strongest path weight to it, where each edge weighs its stated strength divided by one plus its named substitutes. A graph statistic over curated edges, not an observation. Computed 2026-09-07 22:42 UTC.
Curated paths this entity is part of
Chains
Not part of a curated chain.
Names that resolve to this node
Aliases
- multiplanetary
- off-world settlement
- survivable worlds
slug independently-survivable-worlds, updated 2026-09-07 22:42 UTC