Moral excellence is one of the foundations to swiftly move forward in the right direction as a species. Together with knowledge and hard (team)work, nothing would stop us.

I would be happy to receive your vote. This way I will be able to help Asgardia become an example for the rest of humanity.

Kind regards,

Wesley Heylbroeck
[Engineer interested in STEM, culture and abstract thinking]

“The desire to fly, is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air.” [Wilbur Wright]

"These beings, with soaring imagination, eventually flung themselves and their machines into interplanetary space." [Carolyn Porco ]

I'm member of the Pirate Party (on earth), and ran in elections on earth. I'm a strong defender of an open, liquid democracy.
Democracy is deciding where to go to and how to organize given reality.
Other important topics I defend: Critical thinking and transparency.
The right and freedom to share and copy-paste-adapt (thus a total IP reform) should be completely legal and without barriers
Note: I noticed the cicada project recently. I think Asgardia can greatly benefit from adopting these ideas! http://iamcicada.com/

I am a normal guy who thinks the current political system is not in touch with the common people. They stand way above the rest and do not understand everyday problems. I want to represent us as just a normal guy who thinks like you and will act accordingly. Power to the people!

Since I'm now an Asgardian, and being serious about it, I guess I'll have to start by introducing myself. Asgardia really feels like a place I've always been looking for. I know we're a space race and the universe is our future (and probably our past as well). So being Asgardian feels really natural to me. I'm actually very proud to be part of this community of likeminded people. What I want to contribute to Asgardia ? In short : space music ! I've been an ambient music producer for decades, and more and more my music has been becoming free of traditional earthy rules like timing and tuning signatures. My ambient music is based on randomness and unpredictability, very much like life and the universe itself, and I always picture it as being the perfect soundtrack for space travel in hybernation, or just working on board of a space vessel, while occasionally looking outside to wonder off into deep thoughts. So expect some links to my cosmic soundscapes here soon, as well as some of my deeper reflections about the place of us humans in the universe. The picture above is one I made of an imaginary planet landscape, and is the artwork of one of my DeepMind ambient pieces. Give it a listen while you're here in Asgardia : I think you'll find it goes really well with being in space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2APzMIXoHQg&t=7209s

Thanks so much for accepting me as an Asgardian. I look forward to see this place grow into a fantastic community.

How do we see the future of our nation evolve?

I joined this nation in the hopes of finding people of equal mind. People who think that earth is not our final destination as humans. As earth is finite, we need to find our home amoung the stars. Asgardia is my hope for the future of humans who think. I would like to see a nation build on reason, where the principles of scientific progress and research are our first priority. Because only by progressing can we find our homes amoung the Stars. So i aspire to help anyway i can. I will listen to people who are smarter then me and help where i can.

Chers amis, chers membres de la rebellion !

Notre vaisseau amiral est enfin prêt ! Durant 6 ans, nous l’avons éprouvé sur diverses campagnes :
Equipage : 12 membres nommés et 2 en formation.
Armement :
- Canon « journalisme », efficacité théorique et nominale de 9900 sur Facebook, 12400 sur Linkedin et 9000 sur le web.
- Missile « Associations des médias et des journalistes », efficacité contre l’usurpation de titre professionnel et délits à la profession.
- Missile « Procédure judiciaire » efficacité contre les attaques directes, indirectes et dissimulées, à déjà prouvé son efficacité dans une bataille ultérieure contre le perfide seigneur mytho Ray Jorel !

Tous ceci pour dire à notre noble adversaire des toilettes intersidérales que nous sommes prêts à riposter au moindre faux mouvement.

Que la trollerie soit avec nous !

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Dear friends, dear members of the rebellion!

Our flagship is finally ready! During 6 years, we have experienced it on various campaigns:
Crew: 12 appointed members and 2 in formation.
Armament:
- Canon "journalism", theoretical and nominal effectiveness of 9900 on Facebook, 12400 on Linkedin and 9000 on the web.
-  Missile "Associations of media and journalists", effectiveness against  usurpation of professional title and offenses to the profession.
-  Missile "Judicial Procedure" effectiveness against direct, indirect and  concealed attacks, already proved its effectiveness in a later battle  against the perfidious mytho lord Ray Jorel!

All this to tell our noble adversary of the interstellar toilets that we are ready to respond to the slightest false movement.

Let the trollery be with us!

Dear fellow Asgardians,

How can I help advance your business in Asgardia?

I'm a serial entrepreneur with nearly 15 years experience in management consulting, technology transfer and venture capital and would like to put this experience to good use for the citizens of Asgardia.

Having worked with leading academics to launch their spin-offs based on cutting edge innovations in various domains such as blue biotech, medical devices, satellite technology, red biotech, artificial intelligence, etc., I thrive on developing high-tech enterprises and would love the opportunity to represent next generation entrepreneurs in Asgardia.

I believe the Asgardian Chambre of Commerce should offer an efficient & stimulating support to entrepreneurs who wish to set up their business under Asgardian corporate legislation, which I hope to help shape.

Let me know your expectations and ideas for doing business in Asgardia and I will leverage them to expedite a blossoming new Asgardian economy.

Your vote will help me to represent your business!

Peace and warm regards, H.

Hi there,

Welcome to my first blog. I’m completely new at this (don’t even have a Facebook account) so bear with me if I breach the blog netiquette.

A brief introduction: I’d like to think of myself as a scout, not only in the domain of science & technology (“The Sciences”), but also in the field of “The Humanities” (philosophy, psychology, sociology and economics).

More in particular, I’m interested in R&D that is able to link the “state-of-the-art” in the exact "STEM" sciences with new insights in The Humanities (aka “Liberal Arts”). After all, it’s the relation and tension between both domains that makes us "human" (Experience some of the tension on the subject in the comments posted below the article here: http://thoughtcatalog.com/skylar-grogan/2014/02/the-humanities-vs-the-sciences-who-wins-out/ )

If you look up the word “scout” on Thesaurus.com (“detective, explorer, lookout, pioneer, spotter, adventurer, guard”), you’ll understand why I do not like to limit myself to just the state-of-the-art in both domains. I prefer to anticipate future developments and venture “educated guesses”.

How well educated are my guesses? Probably not particularly better or worse than anyone else’s.

Thanks to the growing venture capital industry in continental Europe, I’ve just been extremely fortunate to have worked closely together with a number of brilliant researchers who compete with the best in their field. This includes researchers in the field of neuro-science, artificial-intelligence, satellite communication, bionics, functional food, robotics and immunology. My partnerships over the last 10 years with these researchers have allowed me to better understand the state-of-the-art in various R&D domains, making it all the more tempting to speculate about the future.

For a scientist, speculation of any sort is typically frowned upon. At the risk of academic suicide, researchers are required to base their statements on experimental proof.  Only a handful of the world’s leading scientists, the ones that supersede the mainstream academic community through prestige,  dare to share their views on the future. A nice example is Brian Greene’s freewheeling on page 306 of his 2015 hardcover publication “The Hidden Reality”, where he suggests we are living in a simulation.

Fortunately, for “laymen” or “scouts” like myself, it is much easier to speculate publically about our future.   Especially in this interesting new environment, I feel encouraged to share views on such topics and seek the opinion of an early adopter crowd, which I'm hoping to address here.

This brings me to Asgardia. A wonderful enterprise based on noble principles I can relate to. I am anxious to see how this nation will evolve and hope I can contribute based on my personal and professional experiences in the early stage venture capital industry.

I’d love to interact with fellow Asgardians to exchange experiences and views. In particular, I love pondering the bigger questions related to our multiverse and conscious being. Recently, I stumbled upon a publication that continues to resonate with me: https://www.p2p-simulation-hypothesis.com/ . If you share my intrigue into this particular hypothesis, please leave a comment.

Sex in space: Sex sells, so I thought to start with that :) I think we'll manage sex, what comes after it another matter. I think human babies will not be able to form a normal bone structure without gravity. For colonization in the future we'll have to solve those issues and also related issues for plants and animals.

Think clearly: Humans make the same mistakes over and over again. A good book is 'The art of thinking clearly' from Rolf Dobelli (2014, ISBN 978-1-444-75956-3). Even he makes thinking mistakes when explaining other mistakes. Better read it and avoid most of those mistakes.

Keep it simple: rules, finance: For some reason people like to make things complicated. The want to solve problem with new rules and regulation even when the return on investment is clearly negative. Go for the pareto rule: 80-20, 20% of effort for 80% of the solution. Stop there unless human lives are at stake (1/10000 to die, also stop there). And only solve problems where more than 5% of the population has severe difficulties and history has proven that they can only be adressed by setting some rules.

For finance, make no debt as a nation, for firms it's fine if they have a fair chance that the interest payments are more than 5% lower than the added value gained. For individuals, there is a good book 'The richest man in Babylon' from George S. Clason (1926, free eBook on the internet).

To grasp how economy works look at 'How the economic machine works' from Ray Dalio (2013, video on youtube; there is also a paper that goes in more detail).

For terrestrial nations I find there should be only 2 taxes: on the amount of territory you use for your activities (like living, industry; i.e. 70 €/m2) and value added tax (i.e. 10%). Also I'm for a base income. It's a completely different approach but it's simple and effective. Companies would only need 2 registers: in and out. On buying products they pay value added tax like everyone, on selling the customers pay them. That is it: no tax on profit, financial transaction, wages, ... The strategic advantage that a nation would get over other nations that will still use the current system will be astronomical.

Vote for arguments, not rules: When making rules, the individual arguments (including those that were not followed) are almost never present or explained and why they are withoutheld and why not. So future generations always have to guess why a rule is made. This is also the case with the Asgardian constitution. I see rules that conflict each other so I'm missing information. With the opportunity for a new nation I find we need to get at least this right.

Language: When going to 1 language, it's better to make a new one. Start with the human side, an alphabet that is easy to write, a simple and consistent speech and then make it suitable for electronic communication. Just a few elements to consider: 1,i,l look too much alike; so keeping only figures, steno would be nice but will be impractical to adapt for electronic communication, spoken japanese is very consistent and has a logical structure (but maybe better not to put the verbs at the end) and don't forget people who are impaired.

Privacy: In these times where everyone finds it normal that everything is puplic, it's actually not such a good idea in general. It is essential that people have their private space. I'm strongly opposed to a world like in 'Brave new world' from Aldous Huxley (1932, free eBook on the internet). The way things go, we might end up there sooner than later.

Green-house effect: The solution lies in changing the refraction of the planet. Current measures won't do. I'm estimating a rise in sea levels in the next 10 years for at least a few meters.

Extra padding: Some people have aquired some extra padding. Look how glucose is processed in the body and realize that is prevent the buring of fat.

Last note: Time is precious, so I will only elaborate on these topics if it makes a difference. I'll defend the ways of logic while stressing that rules should be used sparsely so people can live instead of just survive.