Good day Asgardia!

Asgardia-1 is scheduled to launch tomorrow so we thought it'd be nice that you have your own version of it to build and enjoy! The volunteer teams have put together an Asgardia-1 cutout activity sheet for our citizens of all ages to complete!

You can download the PDF file of the Activity Page here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X2LzeARqai5syx4DkB7YraugMLRs4LpU/view?usp=sharing

Don't forget to share your completed ones on social media with the hashtag #Asgardia1Launch2017 so we can see them!

Stay tuned through out the next couple of days for more activity pages!

It is understandable that many Asgardians are concerned with a government and their promise to stay transparent. This is my solemn vow. If elected into Parliament or any government position, I will be transparent about information pertaining to the Asgardian people and the acts of the government. At no point will I be threatened or bullied into an otherwise position. This is my commitment to you, all my fellow Asgardians.

Needless to say, one is glad that religion strives to work for the  realization of the moral principle. Yet the moral imperative is not a  matter for the church and religion alone but the most precious  traditional possession of all mankind. Consider from this standpoint the  position of the press, or of the schools with their competitive method!  Everything is dominated by the cult of efficiency and of success, and  not by the value of things and men in relation to the moral ends of  human society. To that must be added the moral deterioration resulting  from a ruthless economic struggle. The deliberate nurturing of the moral  sense also outside the religious sphere, however, should help also in  this, to lead men to look upon social problems as so many opportunities  for joyous service toward a better life. For looked at from a simple  human point of view, moral conduct does not mean merely a stern demand  to renounce some of the desired joys of life but rather a sociable  interest in a happier lot for all men.

his conception implies one requirement above all - that every  individual should have the opportunity to develop gifts which may be  latent in him. Alone in that way can the individual obtain the  satisfaction to which he is justly entitled; and alone in that way can  the community achieve its richest flowering. For everything that is  really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in  freedom. Restriction is justified only insofar as it may be needed for  the security of existence.

We need a decentralized self governance, so we can lay the foundation for the distribution and subscription of content, indipendent market  as well as forming a decentralized content entertainment ecosystem. We can build our blockchain based economy. In the new internet era, the legislative power will be transferred from an opaque centralized authority to transparent codes. Rules and protocols will be entirely transparent. We'll become the first free completely distributed blockchain space network. We need to  provide people with the opportunity to connect with each other around the Earth.

Finding a study that seems to redefine reality is a rarity, and a provocative article by physics professor Vitaly Vanchurin of the University of Minnesota Duluth (USA), available in prepress, revaluates exactly our reality in an extremely peculiar way by indicating that we and everything in the universe “at its most fundamental level [is] a neural network.” For decades, researchers have been trying to reconcile general relativity with quantum mechanics without much success. In Einstein's relativity time is relative, but absolute in quantum mechanics. Vanchurin proposes that artificial neural networks exhibit behaviors similar to both theories of physics. He explains that quantum mechanics “is a remarkably successful paradigm for modeling physical phenomena on a wide range of scales” and that “it is widely believed that at the most fundamental level the entire universe is governed by the rules of quantum mechanics and even gravity should somehow emerge from it,” the researcher states.“We're not just saying that artificial neural networks can be useful for analyzing physical systems or for discovering physical laws, we're saying that's how the world around us actually works,” it states in the study. “In this regard, it can be considered a proposal for the theory of everything, and as such it should be easy to prove it wrong."In an interview for Futurism Vanchurin explained a little more about his peculiar idea. According to the physicist when a neural network has a very large number of neurons its behavior can be described very well by equations of classical quantum mechanics, which explains how the physical world works. In the article the physicist explores the possibility that the fundamental structure of everything that exists is a microscopic neural network from which everything emerges; both quantum mechanics (which explains the behavior of very small things), and general relativity (which explains how very large things behave). In a previous article on machine learning, the researcher tried to use statistical methods to understand how neural networks behave, but eventually discovered that, in certain aspects, they are many similar to the dynamics of quantum mechanics which led him to explore the idea that the physical world may be a neural network. According to the recent article The Theory can be proved incorrect and "all that is necessary [would be] to find a physical phenomenon that [cannot] be described by neural networks"” When asking the obligatory question, whether the theory of the universe as a neural network means that we live in a simulation the physicist replied that " no, we live in a neural network, but we may never know the difference."

I believe that space is the next logical and necessary step for the human race as the population continues to grow and natural resources dwindle. Space offers us a chance to leave behind the old paradigms on Earth that divided us by class, creed, color, or religion and instead embrace new ones where everyone is equal among each other and before the law.  I am a scientist and environmentalist, with a focus on increasing support for the sciences and for education.  My goal is to support scientific innovation and education so that the benefit of new technologies may be passed onto everyone in order to improve daily living for all.