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Bio - ir. Luc Vautmans, MSc.

° 07 January 1971 - married - 3 children.

Luc Vautmans is an academic civil engineer (Master in Engineering - KU Leuven) with specializations in energy conversion, nuclear techniques and aerospace design. Luc complemented his basic education with numerous additional courses in business administration, corporate finance, sales and leadership, including the Executive Development Program of the Boston Business School (Class of '11). Luc acts free(lance) as a sr. management consultant in aerospace (Executive Director Satellite Projects) to Asgardia & IARC.

Luc started his career in the space business, with Verhaert Space (the current QinetiQ Space) in Kruibeke. In +13 years Luc realized about 15 large projects for human spaceflight in close collaboration with ESA, NASA and the Russian space agency Roskosmos (POCKOCMOC), including the 5 major experiments that the Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne performed during his 2 space flights. Luc held successively posts as Project Manager, Contracts Manager, Head of Project Office (aerospace), General Manager Belgium (petro-chemical multinational) and CPMO for 2 sister companies (off-shore sector) and guided teams of  +200 employees.

In 2013, at the age of 42, Luc was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma after a routine examination; a very aggressive cancer, metastasized through more than 40 large tumors to various vital organs. The statistical prognosis on overall survival was 3 months with a survival probability of only 3%. That is now more than 5 years ago and it is expected that Luc will also bring his most important project to a successful conclusion. In the last 5 years since his diagnosis, Luc has made about +50 trips with the family, with each of the children separately and with some loyal friends: skydiving (skydiving) at exotic locations, skiing, paragliding, sailing and long solo journeys by motorcycle. Luc is convinced that our brain is a very good pharmacy for our body and called his modest therapy 'Adren@lpine' (Adrenaline + Alps). Luc documented his bucket list adventures in +90 edited videoclips for his children.

Luc is co-founder and board member of Melanoompunt.be (non-profit), the first patient organization in Belgium for melanoma patients and their next-of-kin and also Patient Advocate for the Melanoma Patient Network Europe (MPNE).

Luc is the president of Skydive Antwerp - Hoevenen (non profit), a skydive club with its own turbine aircraft and an annual turnover of + 200k€.

Luc likes good food, excellent wines, special beers, smart books and bad jokes.

my dream whas to unite earth as one nation that cares for each and every person on it may asgardia make this dream i had all my life true but instead of earth we be colonizing space wich also happens to be my dream to colonise but i whas always thinking i had to clonise a planet this nation gave me hope that i can life in space and help humanity become a type 2 civilazation filled with unity,love and sience now one day we will rise to the skies and go where no human has gone,life where no human has lifed and know what no human has known

Being an Asgardian citizen for a while, I feel like I have to make some kind of contribution, and I decided that it's gonna be space art and space ambient music. Because let's face it : the universe is mostly an empty grey and silent place. (there's a reason why all Hubble pics are pimped with artificial colouring). So I'm gonna fill this space with some of my alien 3D renders and ethereal cosmic music. This render I made in Artmatic Voyager software, an amazing platform to create procedural imaginary spacescapes.

Best wishes for 2019 to everyone on planet Earth and beyond!

Let the force be with you to fulfill all your dreams so the Sky  is NOT your limit anymore...

I'm that guy that knows things, things like mining recources from outer space to keep financing the amazing project of asgardia's space nation while also contributing to the economical structure on earth.

Recources from outer space could help develop better technology, improve structural integrity due to new or better materials, expand and grow better in comparison to earths development regarding evolutionary benefits.

When I close my eyes, I see not just white or black metal walls that protect us from the vacuum of outer space. But I see trees plants and vegetation, well thought of when building the space nation to remind us of the things we need, need to remind us of earth and remind us why we still breath.

Asgardia could be the push forward to help connect us to the citizens on mars and help develop an intergalactic space nation.

As modern technology advances but our planets resources are running out the way we are poluting the environment, and therefor eachother has the rational and moral need to change course. Space therefor has become more relevant than ever before, it provides us a better way of communicating, networking and cross-level collaborating through different parties. However the question remains if we need to restore our balance on earth first before we explore further.

"Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus he will fully understand the world in which he lives" - Socrates 400 BC

Planet Earth

According to the history books planet Earth, or Gaia in Greek mythology exists for over 4.51 billion years. That is a number that you and I cannot comprehend throughout these years, the earth has therefor experienced drastic changes, from the Ice age which has happened around approximately 2,6 million years ago to our current environmental pollution, higher carbon dioxide levels, decrease biodiversity just to name a few. Humanity however exists for over 200.000 years whereby our civilisation as we know only is 6.000 years old. In fact humanity has and have been speeding up the process of global warming, which in the coming years will only rise even more, according to Nature Climate Change (NCC) the recent temperature increase are also tied to an increase number of suicide rates which is hard to grasp, to anticipate on this rise we have to look at alternative resources cause the numbers don't lie. In the statistics below you can see the Global temperature rise. Stats by Berkeley Earth

Space 4.0

According to the World Economic Forum (WEF) the start of the so called Space Age began in 1957. Throughout the times different other corporations and organisations such as Elon Musk - SpaceX and Richard Branson - Virgin Galactic have been emerged and more and more are coming to be a promising market. The European Space Agency (ESA) calls this evolution Space 4.0 whereby Space 1.0 stands for astronomy that we are still using today to analyse space for as far as we can observe. Space 2.0 the race when different nations where in competition for the moon landings, Space 3.0 became more of a unity of an international space station for example the ISS and Space 4.0 according to The European Space Agency (ESA) will be an establishment of an United Europe in Space for the benifits of citizens and the European economy to also compete with other nations, private companies, academia and other space actors in the coming decades.

History

Since a young age I've always been fascinated about space, as a kid I remembered that I could watch the stars for hours at night exploring satelites, planes and falling stars. An inspring quote that fascinated me through my research, life and to explore those uknown boundaries in general is a quote from the famous Greek philosopher Socrates an individual who had a great influence on the western philosophy in general, I quote: "Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus he will fully understand the world in which he lives" - Socrates 400 BC. According to the history books Plato; a student of Socrates was one of the individuals that followed his philosphy in combination with the wisdom and knowledge of philosopher and scientist Aristoteles. Inspiring humanity to think different, evolve and connect was the message they where spreading. "Knowing that I know nothing" I think is a vulnerable but powerfull statement to enter the unknown universe as an united humanity with all it's imperfections included.

Merhaba Asgardian arkadaşlar. Seninle olmaktan mutluyum. Ben bir keşif bilimcisiyim. Mesajım: dünyadaki ilk "kendimiz" olmalıyız! Doğal durumumuzdan ciddi bir çıkış var! Sonra evrensel bir rezonansa dönüşür. Yeni bir dünyaya sahip oluruz, bir boşluk!
aksi halde kirlilik taşırız!
Sevgi ve saygıyla ...

One of the seven wise; i will strive to my greatest ability to sacrifice my selfish needs to aid and prosper human kind. For this I shall build only one legacy, one that forgives all, one that peers into the soul and origin of being.

Crash through the veil, and be free.

Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me.

Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me.

Leave the men where they lay
They'll never see another day
Lost my soul, lost my dream
You can't take the sky from me.

I feel the black reaching out
I hear its song without a doubt
I still hear and I still see
That you can't take the sky from me.

Lost my love, lost my land
Lost the last place I could stand
There's no place I can be
Since I've found Serenity

And you can't take the sky from me.

source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/fireflylyrics.html

Entschuldige bitte mein English in dieser Gemeinschaft, ich würde versuchen mehr auf Deutsch zu schreiben!

For those who haven't seen it yet, I've candidated myself for the  Asgardian parliament! I tried to formulate a few points in my platform tekst but it's not complete so do look at my messages around.

I would also try to be active in Asgardia civil when possible and/or brainstorm about technical issues and their possible solutions.

Any feedback is much appreciated and I hope to have your vote!

My dear fellow Asgardians,

as this is my first blog post, let me introduce myself. I'm a Dutch citizen eager to help to make Asgardia a reality. To signify my seriousness I've also used my real name.

I have a university degree in computer science and a freshman's year university in applied physics but space technology has always drawn me and at times I wonder if I had not better study that instead! Maybe a second career option now with Asgardia?

Although I am not a fierce debater nor a politician, I am contemplating to run for parliament but I haven't made up my mind yet. Maybe a scientific role is more at place. Suggestions are more than welcome.

Let's try to make Asgardia reality and hopefully we'll live the day to look up in the sky and see a place we can call home too. Though honestly I wouldn't mind living or working there either but I guess a lot of Asgardians want that too!

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/