It's been nearly two years since the announcement on October 12th, 2016 on the establishment of the Asgardia initiative by Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli. Since then, the population size has grown and ebbed, grown and ebbed in a repeating cycle that closely resonates with the movement of life itself. Above ...
It's been nearly two years since the announcement on October 12th, 2016 on the establishment of the Asgardia initiative by Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli. Since then, the population size has grown and ebbed, grown and ebbed in a repeating cycle that closely resonates with the movement of life itself. Above all, the hopes of many for the project are very much alive, and with the Inauguration of our head of state and receiving a blessing from Astronauts on board the ISS, the promise of Asgardia seems to be more real than ever.
But another issue that Asgardians seem to overlook is their place in the nation, it's growth, and it's success. It's one thing to sit in your mom's basement being a keyboard warrior for justice and equality, it's another thing to launch a rocket full of supplies into space, and an even further thing to build something in space; that simply cannot be done from your mom's basement.
Many public figures have come and gone, myself included. I started right at the forefront of the initiative, assisting Civic Asgardia in their formation, building Voices of Asgardia, and I assisted in setting up the first live stream.
But reality struck, and when my real life overcame my virtual one, I was forced to point my attention back to my life situation that needed it. In the process, I fell off the wagon. Now I'm looking down the road at my colleagues who nearly a year later are travelling, making official events and hanging out with the real forces that drive the country - and I'm so far behind I don't know if I'll ever catch up.
So to those of you like myself, who's real lives have not afforded them the luxury and the freedom to be a major contributor to Asgardia, I ask you now - what can you bring to the production of our nation, and do you think it will be significant? I ask this question because the people from the Room, the AIRC, and Asgardia are mostly aerospace engineers and contributors, and have been involved with the industry for years. I don't even know anybody in the aerospace industry outside of my brief conversations with them. How can I be significant?
My associates and I spent nearly a year using every waking hour to run the radio station that went nowhere. Perhaps in the beginning it fit, but towards the end of our time there the focus was so heavy on governmental development that we lost our ability to truly contribute - and so, we lost our support.
I'm not rich. I'm not in the aerospace industry. I don't even have a degree (though I have returned to college). So what good am I when compared to the engineers in the AIRC that hold multiple degrees, and some even multiple PhDs?
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