I wonder if this initiative/organization has anything to do with Asgardia. If it doesn't, it could. "Vast is developing artificial gravity space stations to expand humanity across the solar system. Our mission is to enable large populations to live and work in space permanently." https://www.vast.space/

I love to listen to music, create music and explore new music! I've uploaded some old videos with tracks I've created with friends. Please let me know what you think of it I first have to create videos for the more current tracks we've created, because I cannot find a way to upload the tracks audio only. RoGeR is my cooperation with a friend Gerard. We try to make music once a week together. Random Vision is my artist name for all my outings. Tranceformers was a cooperation I had with my best friend Renny - RIP ❤️ - We made a lot of music during the eighties, nineties and noughties!

Finally I've decided to become a resident of Asgardia. I don't know if that will be of any use, but I've started supporting all causes that gives me a good feeling. Asgardia is one of them, because of of the good intentions to create a community for like-minded people. Also Asgardia has a vision for the longterm, something I miss very much in the real world. The 100 dollar fee also kept me from my decision,⁣ but I realize there are costs involved in making the community available to us. Much has already been achieved: a manifesto, website, infrastructure and communication. Thank you for that! Random Vision

Since 2016 I'm lying-sitting in a reclining electric wheelchair. I’m also Minister of Manufacturing at Asgardia. And I'm an IT Security & Enterprise Architect at CGI, a large IT multinational. How do you see me? Diversity, equity and inclusion are not trivial. Certainly not when you are 'diverse' yourself. Not ‘normal’. But what is normal? Why is it a problem when you’re not ‘average’? Are you average? Challenging disability A disability is a challenge. Working is a challenge, with a disability. Life is a challenge. A proven strategy is to turn that around. Challenge disability. Challenge the world to help you. Challenge technology to help you. Challenge tools to help you. Challenge your disability by keeping important goals in mind: getting and retaining your autonomy and dignity. Challenge how people see you. Challenge how you see yourself. Challenge what you can achieve, despite your challenges. Turning the challenge around My name is Jacob Mulder. Due to issues with my back, gravity squeezes my spine. As a result, sitting, standing and walking hurt and my legs fail pretty quickly. Giving up is not an option, so after having tried all kind of medical solutions, I finally had to go for serious tools. And two years after I came to lie down, I returned in my original role as Security & Enterprise Architect. With that exotic wheelchair and with a very special car, that I drive myself. See www.Jacobs.Space/liggend for the pictures. Autonomy is key. I can do my regular job and lots of other things, nobody and nothing has to adapt to me. Dignity is also very important. Of course people startle a bit when I enter a room, but as soon as I start to talk they quickly see beyond my wheelchair. Before meetings I do not announce that I'm in a wheelchair. They will see soon enough and I am not my wheelchair. Moreover, buildings should be accessible, that's the law, internationally, so when I encounter issues, they will hear from me - in such a way that the next meeting will be accessible for me. There should be no limitations. Even stronger: the sky is no limit. Literally. Quite some time ago I studied Astronomy (and Information Technology). My problem is caused by gravity, so I will emigrate to space in some 15 years from now. Indeed, weightlessness. Why not? CGI, where I work, has a serious track record in space, IT is vital in the space industry, I'm a Security & Enterprise Architect and I studied Astronomy. So indeed, why not? I realize that this is not trivial, but I actively try to increase my chances by pushing my luck. So I joined Asgardia, got voted into Parliament and I'm now Minister of Manufacturing here. That way I can lay the foundations for the "Sustainable Space Colony Swarm Architecture" that I presented during a scientific congress. See www.JacobTo.Space for a few articles about my self-fulfilling prophecy. Challenge! So when it comes to diversity, equity and inclusion: turn the challenge around! Challenge your challenge. Simply assume that things are 'normal', accessible, working, available, correct, honest, equal. And if not, challenge that, so that next time they are. Challenge your environment, challenge Asgardia, challenge technology, challenge reality, challenge yourself, because the sky really is no limit!

During the recent Digital Sitting of Parliament of 1-3 Leo 0005 (18-20/6/2021), I was very honered to become chosen as the Minister of Manufacturing. Thank you all for your support, I'm very proud and grateful! In the "12-sitting-digital" folder of our Slack environment I posted my CV, my "Motivation and goals" document and a document with the answers to the questions I received just before the election. I'm very much looking forward to collaborating with everybody, together working on our great shared dream!

Life on Mars: in 2 years we will have both discovered and eradicated it Life is very good in adapting and surviving. Bacteria Deinococcus Radiodurans were found to survive for three years outside (!) ISS. The coming year, quite a group of devices will land on Mars and finding life is a goal shared by many of them. It's quite likely that they will find it within a few years - Earth life. Specifically the bacteria that they brought there themselves, which survived, adapted with the miniscule amounts of water vapor, oxygen and nitrogen and spread via Martian winds. And if there are traces of indigenous life, it most probably will be eradicated by these intruders. I admit - a bit of a negative thought. However, it does call for an (Asgardian) Environmental Law with substantial precautions and Star Trek style non-intervention obligations. Fortunately such a Law Proposal is currently being written by the Parliament of Asgardia. (background: see also https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/new-strains-of-bacteria-found-on-the-international-space-station/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans )

Hello everybody! My name is Ronella Mulder - de Vries, I'm the wife of Jacob Mulder, who is member of the Parliament of Asgardia. I am a self-employed, enthusiastic woman from the Netherlands. As a pedagogical counselor I help children with challenges, such as autism and ADHD, and their families.

Hello everybody! My name is Jacob Mulder and I studied Astronomy and also Computer Science at the University of Groningen at the Netherlands. Astronomy has quite some overlap with Physics, so I guess I should feel quite at home here :-) I'm currently working as an IT Security & Enterprise Architect at CGI.com for 4 days/week, and for the rest I do other nice things, like being active in Asgardia, do volunteer work and (try to) do science. An example of that is the idea "A matter of energy and space", which is on AMatterOfEnergyAndSpace.nl . It would be great to hear your reactions on this and discuss! Jacob, JacobTo.Space

If you are an Asgardian and you have a passion for taking (or looking at) images of The Moon, The Sun, Planets or any object in the Deep Sky, the new Astrophotography Amateurs of Asgardia community is the right place for sharing, enjoying and discussing them. A small description of the techniques used for taking the picture and about the subject itself is more than appreciated. Surprise us with your beauty! https://asgardia.space/social/communities/703

WiKi The Rosette Nebula (also known as Caldwell 49) is an H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244 (Caldwell 50) is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter. The complex has the following New General Catalogue (NGC) designations: NGC 2237 – Part of the nebulous region (Also used to denote whole nebula) NGC 2238 – Part of the nebulous region NGC 2239 – Part of the nebulous region (Discovered by John Herschel) NGC 2244 – The open cluster within the nebula (Discovered by John Flamsteed in 1690)[citation needed] NGC 2246 – Part of the nebulous region The cluster and nebula lie at a distance of 5,000 light-years from Earth[3]) and measure roughly 130 light years in diameter. The radiation from the young stars excites the atoms in the nebula, causing them to emit radiation themselves producing the emission nebula we see. The mass of the nebula is estimated to be around 10,000 solar masses. A survey of the nebula with the Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed the presence of numerous new-born stars inside optical Rosette Nebula and studded within a dense molecular cloud. Altogether, approximately 2500 young stars lie in this star-forming complex, including the massive O-type stars HD 46223 and HD 46150, which are primarily responsible for blowing the ionized bubble.[4][5] Most of the ongoing star-formation activity is occurring in the dense molecular cloud to the south east of the bubble.[6] A diffuse X-ray glow is also seen between the stars in the bubble, which has been attributed to a super-hot plasma with temperatures ranging from 1 to 10 million K.[7] This is significantly hotter than the 10,000 K plasmas seen in HII regions, and is likely attributed to the shock-heated winds from the massive O-type stars. On April 16, 2019 the Oklahoma Legislature passed HB1292 making the Rosette Nebula as the official state astronomical object. Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed it into law April 22, 2019. - End of Wikipedia extract. Technical details about my shot... Emission nebula H II region NGC 2244 Rosette Nebula.jpg The Rosette Nebula (H-Alpha + RGB) Observation data: J2021 Right ascension 06h 33m 45s[1] Declination +04° 59′ 54″[1] Distance 5,200[2] ly (1,600 pc) Apparent magnitude (V) 9.0 Constellation Monoceros Physical characteristics Radius 65 ly Notable features Multipart nebula Designations SH 2-275,[1] CTB 21,[1] Caldwell 49 Integration: (5h 05m): 30x300s with ASI294MC Pro on WO GT71, UHC-S Baaders 2", Temp -4C. 31x300s with ASI2600MC Pro on WO GT81 IV, L-eXtreme Optolong 2", Temp -10C. Calibration: 115x300s Darks, 25x30s Flats 25K ADU (L-eXtreme Optolong), 25x30s FlatDarks, 49x10s Flats at 25K ADU (UHC-S Baader), 48x10s FlatDarks, No Bias. Camera 1: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro. Camera 2: ZWO ASI294MC Pro. Camera 3: ZWO ASI290MM (Guide with UV/IR Cut). Telescope 1 William Optics GT81, 81/478 (used at 432mm). Flattener/Reducer: William Optics 0.8 6A-III Focal Ratio: f/5.3. Telescope 2 William Optics GT71, 71/419 (used at 335mm). Flattener/Reducer: William Optics 0.8 Focal Ratio: f/4.7. Telescope 3 (Guide) William Optics Uniguide 50/200. Mount: iOptron CEM40. Focus: PrimaLuce SestoSenso2. Data acquisition: Via ethernet with Ekos on Astroberry Pi4. Pre-Processing and Processing: PixInsight. System: Linux Kubuntu Plasma Site: Bortle 8, Amsterdam (NL).

I think LoRa and Lorawan might be suited for an kind of Space extension of IoT as it has an range of 700~ KM at max this means it can easly be used to beam back to earth or maybe to beam to other planets also this 700~ KM limit might be bigger in space(as space is less interfering then air(and all the radio polution here) anyway once we set this up we can easly communicate with the final frontier using LoRa and 5G we can use 5G for internet on mars and LoRa for small data that needs an quicker path to earth

I’m very proud to be part of Asgardia and also very proud to have been elected for Asgardia Parliament! On December 17, it was decided that 55 Asgardia Residents won the voting for the by-elections for the Asgardia Parliament. The next day, the tenth session of Parliament started (Friday - Sunday), so I immediately joined :-) It is great to see the high level of professionalism of Asgardia, of the session and of the people. Moreover, everybody is very friendly, respectful and positive. This experience makes me even more confident that Asgardia is really able to change history...!

Quantum Gravity and Emergent Gravity are fascinating concepts. A long time ago I studied Astronomy and ICT, I've been working in ICT since then, but I also try to keep up with Astronomy. That's not trivial, a lot is happening out there. One of the things I did was write down how 'things are all connected' - at least, in my interpretation, in my mind. That's not the truth, of course, I simply tried to present a number of views and interpretations and try to do so in a logical way. My intention is to start discussions. The document states that it's all "A matter of energy and space", it's online at www.AMatterOfEnergyAndSpace.nl .