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.

As we have a good foundation now with 100k+ golden citizens we can start to build our nation with the parliament that will have 150 members out of 12 language groups. In the same time the government is being formed which will help us with professional help.

We are also getting closer to the launch of our first satellite named Asgardia-1, which will put our golden citizens virtually in space with 1GB+ of data from the citizens.

Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli announced that there will be a space-ark in orbit and also a base on the moon in the future, but first there will be work done for a satellite constellation.

Our CEO Lena, the administrators and volunteers are doing a great job to guide us all into this adventure into space. There are also regular interviews for questions live and later as video on the Internet, like for example tomorrow 21 October 2017 / 14 October 0001.

Hope to see you all around here and don't hold back to give some input.

Greetings, Dirk.

Control this madness before it's too late....
With the enabling of social media, constant connectivity and mobile devices, the world as become a village. That's a slogan. Everyone is only a few connections (e.g. facebook) separated from everyone else on earth. Yet we walk around as strangers (in the night), more busy with recording the surroundings on our mobile devices, but not interacting with the physical person standing next to us! Unite, one people, but do not forget to interact with your neighbors "in real life". And help "in real live". Socialize.

We are not alone in Space ; so, we ought to, we have to change our way of life. We must use Free Energy right now. We have to protect our home, The Earth and, of course, the Space, our new destination.

To do this, Asgardia must become a great nation ! Become member...

Regardless who you are or not and what you do in life, you eat and drink regularly or else you will have difficulties remaining alive. The quality & quantity of the nourishment you consume, absorb, utilise or store for later can make all the difference to how you will feel as well as function. Thus, one thing is certain, it has an impact on you, your loved ones and every life we have encountered in our world as well as may encounter.

Consequently to experience anything and everything each day of your life along with accomplishing greater happiness, you have to nourish yourself.

My goal is to make sure people have regular access to enough high-quality food including water so no one can be discriminated from their basic human right. To keep all parties engage together in such manner that we not only are able to meet our generation's needs but also of those that will come after ourselves. To uphold this value not only for our nation but to all humanity in the universe, to the extent of our abilities for all life.

I am a student at the moment of Nutrition & Dietetics, plan to grow as a researcher in the field of space nutrition and hopefully be a leader, teacher and student, college and friend of all of you so we may not only succeed a step but drink together in space as one unity.

Please vote, and support by been engage as much as you are able and willing, thank you.

I would like to start out by saying... awesome innitative.
I am eager to find out how far we can go.

It will be a lot of work and red tape, but if we stay focussed and "Dont Panic" .. we'll get there!

Well this was my first blog ... ever... so i'll leave it at that for now.

ASGARDIA IS THE INITIATIVE THAT I WAS WAITING FOR.  AS AN OLD SOUL BEING ON EARTH FOR THE 1ST TIME I FIND MYSELF AWAKENING EARTHLINGS (SOULS FROM EARTH). I LOVE IT WHEN EARTHLINGS ARE UNITING IN 1 FRONT TO SHOW THE DIVIDED WORLD THAT PEOPLE CAN WORK TOGETHER EVEN IF THEY HAVE DIFFERENT ROOTS, COLOR, RELIGION, ... THE MOST IMPORTANT POWER IS LOVE, AND IF ASGARDIA IS STANDING FOR LOVE, I CAN ONLY PROMOTE THIS AND BE A PART OF IT.

LET'S SPREAD THIS LOVE TOGETHER IN ASGARDIA. LEADERSHIP AND RULES WILL BE NEEDED, BUT EVERY SINGLE ASGARDIAN THAT WILL JOIN US IN THE ACTUAL SPACE- OR MOON STATION WILL HAVE A VERY IMPORTANT JOB. WITHOUT THE COLLABORATION OF INDIVIDUALS, WE CAN NOT MAINTAIN THE ASGARDIAN DREAM. LET'S BE BETTER AND TRANSCEND AND REALIZE THIS VISION AND SHOW THE WORLD HOW THINGS NEED TO BE DONE.

LOT'S OF LOVE!

DAVID

As we have a good foundation now with 100k+ golden citizens we can start to build our nation with the parliament that will have 150 members out of 12 language groups. In the same time the government is being formed which will help us with professional help.

We are also getting closer to the launch of our first satellite named Asgardia-1, which will put our golden citizens virtually in space with 1GB+ of data from the citizens.

Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli announced that there will be a space-ark in orbit and also a base on the moon in the future, but first there will be work done for a satellite constellation.

Our CEO Lena, the administrators and volunteers are doing a great job to guide us all into this adventure into space. There are also regular interviews for questions live and later as video on the Internet, like for example tomorrow 21 October 2017 / 14 October 0001.

Hope to see you all around here and don't hold back to give some input.

Greetings, Dirk.