For my part, I'm not one of the most cultured people, I haven't done  any great studies, I'm not a scientist, not even a politician or an  important person...
I'm just a worried young mother for the future we  bequeath to our children, the effects of our actions on the "health" of  our Earth.

We all have a role to play. All in our way, with our means, we can all contribute to Asgardia

I've  faith in Asgardia and I'm convinced that together we can build a better  future for humanity, that Asgardia is the beginning of a more humble,  more peaceful, more humane future ...
A better future for our children

No  religion, political party or personal wealth that governs the nation,  just science, logic, sharing, unity, humanity, equality for all ...

That's what i think about When I think of Asgardia

I  think of honor, freedom, peace, knowledge, equity, compassion, empathy,  education for all, evolution, ecology, respect, tolerance, transcending  cleavages, learning from past, all these topics as different, as  important in a nation such as Asgardia

Maybe it's a dream, maybe it's can be reality

With a concept as new and radical as our Asgardia, a multitude of futures are possible.

We   can hope to build something that has never existed before: a peaceful   state that holds tolerance and logic as its most central principles.

We must now protect our nation and ensure that it remains true to its destiny.

Throughout human history, nations have been prey to conflict.

Asgardia is above the politics and small differences that afflict every earthly nation.
With the light of science and will, we can achieve what has never been done before.
We must now endeavor to refuse to accept that the problems of the past prevail in our future.

We  strive to forge a society and show what the light of logic and the path  of passion can accomplish when each person is considered as the  treasure they are.
In Asgardia, each individual, is an immeasurable resource of unlimited value and potential.
We have a more diverse population than any other nation in the world.
Language, race and land borders do not mean anything to the Asgardians, because we have already transcended these bonds.

By knowing where we come from, we can better know where we are going.

I'm certainly not one of the people who can best apply all of these,
but  I appeal to the people who have the skills and the means to act for our  future, make that Asgardia manage to create a better future for our  children

Give and Receive and do not take and demand. Its one of fundamentals of a loving and peaceful world.
Lets start with earth, if we do nothing else then taking away from  this beautiful world, the earth will
be no longer a beautiful place as it will give us no longer beautiful things. If we do nothing else then making
war and conflicts, then the solutions for peace will be useless as we will only get a more aggressive world.
If we do not care about hunger and diseases then we will receive nothing else in return.

So if we want to make the world a better place then we have to start with ourselves and think about the future.
This is exactly what we can do in Asgardia. We are people from  all over the world and we have all our own
problems with this today world. We can build a place where we can discuss and brainstorm over the world's
problems and find solutions and idea's to make this a more loving and peaceful place.

Asgardia will raise above the earth and we are in the best situation to give good examples. So if we can make
our own world better then the existing one, then we are on the right track. I want to insert here a word of
thank you for Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli to give us all this opportunity for free and with good will. If we grab this
chance with both hands and do our efforts for it in whatever way then we will have a good future. At least
we and the people of the future can say that we have tried and have put the effort in it as good example.

As we will go on with this in mind while we go into space for what ever reason we want to go, then i see
a beautiful future for earth and the humankind. We only have to find an answer to a difficult question:
what can we give to the universe to have a peaceful and loving live in space.

Grtz, Dirk.

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.

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.