the art has been submitted: https://asgardia.space/news/155-Works-from-Many-Countries-Submitted-for-the-Bridge-to-Space-International-Contest What i find interesting is how we could use these art-works to promote Asgardia in visual ways. like for example on a billboard somewhere in a capital-space-city or even air/space-ports.. making a calendar would also be a nice promotion.. for the kids maybe a card-game.. post-stamps which could go from low to high prices.. phone- , pad- and laptop covers.. posters for in the ISS.. etc etc etc.. Grtz, Dirk.

today my brain seemed to be ready to do some covid19 reflections so here it goes.. as i am still recovering it will not be to deep but the last days my brain seems to kick in again.. the world has been taken by a new flew, its called covid19 as from the year 2019. all other flew versions seemed to be have been pushed to the background by these new strings. many people have been very sick from the first rounds especially the ones who had already to endure other sicknesses and weak immune-systems.. now the virus seems to go for difference instead of strength and will so engage the world for some following times. i was sick in the winter 2019/2020 and probably that was my first encounter. later now begin this year 2021 i had to go in quarantine and that was the perfect setup to be infected. i have had 2 weeks very bad time at home while other family members where at hospital for treatment. now my family is back home but i am still suffering on my lungs, also due the work i do.. i have been back at work this week and it seems to go albeit a bit slower and thought-fuller.. now.. the big discussions is what about those vaccines and new medications.. for immediate action it is good to preserve the vaccines for the weak and important groups.. on a medium run i would say all social gatherings and schools should be invited to take the vaccines to protect the weaker ones.. now if we would further our thinking process we have to be aware to not over-specify vaccines as we also need to think about the future with the aspect to being in fortune as a part of rich- and industrialized country's. all people should have access to the basic vaccines and the ones who preserve their shots for other poor people or poor country's should be praised and not hunted.. if i can give my shot to somebody else these coming months i will do that within the good spirit, but if i need to take it because i remain sick then i will take the shot.. it is something everybody should be able to choose for themselves by searching for a balance between preserving for more needed people and making a best choice to fight the sickness.. Grtz, Dirk.

It will probably not be a fully equipped space lab. As i see it this node is to connect other carbines and is given the name Asgardia (Earth Ark). Hopefully we will be able to put some modules in it, like for example a small computer with open hardware and open software. What i would like to see, but this is just a personal dream, that is to put the harddisk or even a copy of Asgardia 1 into the node as the core of our digital space nation. That way we could also connect it to an onboard computer and update and reorganize it from there. Grtz, Dirk.

As we are closed to the sun now and have some rising in earthquakes and volcano's my thought is that there must be an underlying force that makes that happen. What i think is that when cores approach each other that they heat up and expand themselves. That is why we see magma and lava rising. If we would look at this the other way around we could also conclude that cooling of the cores should make hollow rooms and tubes around the cores. Maybe that is why we can hear hollow sounds in the moons and planets. Just a quick thought. Grtz, Dirk.

I still follow my same old thought to build Asgardia from the bottom up. What we want is to increase members, paying members and local leaders. If we would switch to a basic user-base that would pay 10 euro to access the website for a year and following up with a election of the user-base for the best helpers and give them Solars back in respect to their efforts. Then the next level could be 100 euro for the chosen-ones or the ones that want to invest. Again an online election and the best would have a change to obtain a 1000 euro citizen level and again users that would like to invest in that level with also a say in parliament. It would also picture the real committed users without the ones who have long forgotten Asgardia. As an extra there could be regular prizes in Solar for nice works in Asgardia. I am sure we could find many ways to reward users for there unpaid efforts in Solar. Just a short reaction to the new letter from head of nation. Grtz, Dirk.