> You told me "there are no secrets here" so, please, explain me why I'm reading "Fixer, this is a great post" right after yours (here https://asgardia.space/en/forum/forum/general-discussion-14/topic/who-are-among-the-first-100k-2998/) but I can't read Fixer's post anywhere?.. is it my bad interpretation? I read (user) Fixer's posts elsewhere, so I believe he/she is an asgardian. I changed my nickname to reflect my online presence. I was originally called Fixer on here (which I am generally called IRL because I make things work), now I am asking to be called Phicksur (same phoenetics), which is more my online tag, which can even be googled. Googling Fixer comes up with a whole host of nonsense, but there is only one Phicksur I am aware of. > Last (but not least): https://asgardia.space/en/forum/forum/general-discussion-14/topic/hey-you-listen-no-seriously-this-is-actually-important-3013/ leads to HTTP 404 "Page not found" error... are we having... secrets? (joking: maybe it's just a wrong URL ;-))) Apparently someone deleted my post, dammit! WTF? I wanted more input from everyone. WTF are they doing now?

Thank you VERY much, @Phicksur, for your post here and, even much more for pointing me to your threads! I've to say we're ***sharing the same feelings*** about things are going on. Let me do some clarifications anyway: 1. as far as I can read, you gave links to many of the things are going on... ***but*** we're still lacking a "***summary (web) page***" where to read something like: a. ***Contests***: overall 90% done (100% proposal gathering, redline for voting will close 15 march 2017 12:00Z (GMT)) b. ***Government***: overall 40% done (30% Ministries candidates gathering, 10% online vote developed, 10% Ministries' programs acquired) c. ***United Nations***: overall 50% done (100% target people gathering, 10% Constitution made, 40% Government made, 0% proposal request sent) d. etc. etc. and/or things like a GANTT ( ) 2. all that ***souldn't stay*** into this forum: some Official should take your thread, make a web-page and place it as a section into asgardia.space's website, the same way there is a Government section, a Citizenship one, etc. 3. if we need to keep some projects "***private***" (AKA "*visible by registered members only*"), the web-page should not list it unless you register (actual CMS can do that). 4. I didn't write *in any of my posts* that there is *something **secret***: what I wrote is the ***existing*** informations can be gathered with GREAT difficult: that's makes a (wrong) sense of "*there's nothing going on*", or "*so much **WORDS** but where are the **FACTS**?*" and, I'm sure, "*I can see so much blablabla but what I can't see are the projects: are they **secret**?*" (e.g. ) 5. something I'm sure I'm not the only one asking to myself is "***WHO** is doing what?*": there should be a (public or private) web-page which lists the names/nicks of people which is contributing with facts: I mean **Mods**, **IT Team**, **lawyers**, etc. etc. I wrote "a web page" as, having all these informations *scattered into the whole forum AND FaceBook* (where I've ***no access*** at all) leads to the questions of ***point 4***, as you may figure. 6. the lack of a ***Search*** function, in the forum, makes all searches a pain (and **NO**, I don't think we should make our forum indexed by Google). So, I thank you very much for your post, and even more for your trial to create something useful as a "*forum's roadmap*", but that's not what I asked for (to the "officials"). Nonetheless I believe your is a ***great work*** and the only "roadmap" we'll have for a while, so ***thank you*** again. ;-) P.S. You told me "*there are no secrets here*" so, please, explain me why I'm reading "*Fixer, this is a great post*" right after yours (here ) ***but*** I can't read Fixer's post anywhere?.. is it my bad interpretation? I read (user) Fixer's posts elsewhere, so I believe he/she is an asgardian. Last (but not least): leads to **HTTP 404 "Page not found"** error... ***are we having... secrets?*** (joking: maybe it's just a wrong URL ;-)))

Thank you VERY much, Jason: you answered me at the best. I was thinking to subscribe there, as it seemed to me that forum was more advanced than this one, but the domain made me to ask some questions, so I wrote here. :-) Btw: is it possible to have, here, some features of that forum? I know phpBB and it's really a nice product: we're lacking a lot of it's features here (e.g. the ability to quote while answering, but not ony). Elwe

Hi Elwe Thor, that website and forum are part of an "old" project started by one of our members before Asgardia.space opened these forums. To the best of my knowledge the project has been abandoned , however the page is still intact. I hope that this answers your questions

There are many talks about LENR. But I certain about next things: 1) To provide such type of reaction you need something like NIF or JET (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_European_Torus respectively). This technologies works, not good but works. 2) Or you may use muon catalysis for a really "cold fusion", but here is a one big problem. The creation of one muon need 5-10 GeV and reaction with that muon will give only 2 GeV (at present level of technology). I think that this type of reactions is the future source of power for humanity, but there are a lot of technological issues that must be solved before this technology will be common in any part of the world.

That's one way - there are others. LENR is something that's been talked about for a long time, and I've heard rumour o a few feasibly operable reactor designs. It's certainly something that hold potential as productive area of research. Fusion being a lot more sensible than fission. I did find Rossi's E-Cat reactor quite interesting because the energies released and the matter changes suggested fusion - and this was taking place unprotected in a room full of people leaving no neutron trace.

A specific section for people to place their studies, research, projects etc for peer review is a good idea. Maybe not in the forum, the structure is "wrong" - but there's existing open spource solutions that would fit the bill and bolt on in a seamless and modular fashion. It would help starting an archive of knowledge, as much as the critique(including chance for rebuttal. The forum structure could suit this purpose). Both halves crucial for a rounded view. I agree with the "free access" specification, too. This conforms well with founding ethics. This would also give the scientists within our midst the chance to shine and establish ourselves as a center of technical excellence and expertise in all fields... Which in turn will not only strengthen our reputation, but that of our educational system - when we eventually have one. Nuclear weapons and nuclear energy are indeed not the same thing, and there are some misconceptions amongst the uneducated. However, I don't think the "issue" is with this topic, specifically. More being the educational lack leading to the misconceptions. The only possible use we could have for a "weaponised" nuclear system is for the deflection of an inbound asteroid of serious potential to cause the Earth harm... And this would most effective a significant distance off... However, stealing these from their problematic orbits and parking them in a less problematic one has better long term mining prospects, and could double as clearing the solar system of hazardous debris and fueling our expansion. If you intercept far enough out, or on the "right" part of the orbit, you'd need comparatively little deltaV and then can take longer to guide it to a safer place for processing.

Skills are certainly a good thing, and the more numerous across a wider range the better. It's hard to locate disadvantages. Using random circuitry to send a distress signal isn't happening - and such plots in films are commonly a source of amusment to myself - you need specific things for this to happen. That's not to say these things will not exist, but just grabbing random things and wiring them together isn't likely to be good. Additional to how to spot the difference between a capacitor and a timing crystal, being able to pick out a 555 timer - or even what you would want to be doing with these - education on basic principles of signals and signal encoding would be required in order to transmit something intelligable. Like many other things, it draws on much previous knowlege to become workable. Opening a jammed door is easier when you know how the door mechanism is designed to operate. You don't end up pushing when you should be sliding it sideways. The operating principles of things, and the understanding of, is what allows for "effective repurposement in inconsiderate situations". Being able to wear a space suit incorrectly is quite frankly poor design. Current space suits are kind of unsuitable for general civillian use, and take much effort to get on. There's already tangible efforts in redesigning this, there have been some improvements already, and we should definitely be taking a stab at this soon as it's not as if we can be cloning their designs rightly unless these are open sourced, and we will ideally be requiring these.

Yes classes that teach basic and more advanced survival skills should be mandatory for Asgardian schools starting in Elementary and continuing through college. Also classes that teach self defense should be reauired to teach how to approach the subject as quickly and non lethaly as possible. However, lethal self defense skills should also be taught considering they maybe needed. Being able to identify when lethal skills are needed and when the threat has ended should also be mandatory. So unnecessary deaths and permanent injury can be avoided

I see no reason to migrate from GMT. Ultimately, there's only one time - now. And it's now everywhere. For those in requirement of a little more measuring accuracy, atomic clocks do indeed seem suitable - What doesn't is the concept of "time zones". Unless you're travelling immense speeds between places, or having a differential like the inner and outer of a galactic spiral, offset for velocity isn't likely to be much of a concern and sync to an Earth-orbit Atomic clock via quantum entanglement to me sounds the best way to "standardise time" across infrastructure. I think there's a reason why people stopped counting fingers like that at or round about the end of the Roman empire - and it'd certainly not make any sense to anyone educated in the metric system. Sure, week/month/year - even days, really - have pretty much no significance outside of Earth. Seasons even less so. Having no observable carcadian rhythm I would readily adapt to any given pattern. However, humans have evolved this over tens of thousands of years and as such might represent a particular issue with regards to dealing with. Any "evolution" to cope with this adjustment isn't likely to be a rapid thing. In order to minimise for impact this is sensible to maintain to "Earth format", I've noticed humans don't seem to work too well 72hrs into a day for example. Sticking to Earth format also establishes ties to heritige, something that may become important later.

For now, the UTC is fine. As for long term: Isn't referencing other object in space not as optimised as they are changing non-stop? I think it's important to keep the definition of second, consider how many formula, equations, definition etc are based on it, changing it without a proper reason is just a waste of time and effort. As for minute, hour and day, if there's not a major reason to change it, we should leave it as is, consider how is it easily divisible and how they are connected to us. (If you count the joint of your finger using your thumb, there are a total of 12 joints excluding the thumb). However, for week, month and year, there's not really much reason to keep using the same. There isn't really much reason to have 7 days a week in modern day other than it is just an old tradition that no one want to break. As for months, although it is related to earth's season and such, I agree that once we leave earth, it is no longer important. As for **Onegin** stated that: >But they are in your genes and your brain. Humans experience both monthly and annual biological rythms, which makes years and months make sense. Animals exposed to deviations in outer ryhtms, even annual ones, experience erratic behavior and age faster. We are already going to be subject to a lot of strange stimuli up there, so I would suggest to keep things traditional. I actually doubt that once space travel become a norm, this will still be a case, consider us human evolved on earth to suit ourselves on earth, I *think* once we no longer inhabited on earth, we may start to evolved away from those rhythms. Though I'm not an expert of the subject, so I can't say for sure.