Hello Asgardians! Now is your time to let your voices be heard. A new initiative has been approved for deliberation and input from the community for a **mobile application** for Asgardia community members. Please visit the above thread in the Administrative Affairs forum to add your suggestions on what features you think should be in the app. Also keep an eye on more approved initiatives opening up! Kind regards, Rebekah Berg, Lead Community Administrator, Asgardia

Another big question that we have to prepare for during space colonization is that a species might change very quickly once on the new planet. Ecologists are realizing this now because recent research shows that evolution can happen quickly ... An example of the rapid evolution of species we can see occurs on the Galapagos Islands, where the birds change and interbreed, and species disappear and appear.

So even if we bring one species that we've figured out does something, it might change completely within a couple of generations. Ecologists don't even know how many species there are on earth, much less the general rules of how species interact and respond to each other, nor how this changes over time. Ecosystem studies are useful because ecology is just starting to ask these questions. And while we're waiting for space colonization, this ecological knowledge might help us survive on the earth!