@MannyAstor Finally, someone in this forum that is actually on the same wavelength as I am. Also to add to this, the way things have been going lately, it's a good chance in our life time we will get to see the first launch of a nuclear war. Keep your eyes on North Korea. They will be the ones to start the fireworks.

I don't want to be a downer but this a lofty notion. As long as humans occupy any given space the potential for destructive conflict or unchecked consumption is present. We've got unprecedented access to global information and history like never before. Humanities mistakes and triumphs are at our finger tips and can fit in our pockets. We have entire museums dedicated to humanities glories and our self-inflicted traumas. We know what our ancestors did wrong and then we replicate those events anyway. Space expansion is not going to save us; it will simply move our problems elsewhere. Simply waiting things out "another 1000 years" until people are forced to cooperate and not destroy the environment because of lack of resources is a recipe for our extinction. We have everything* we need here on Earth. We should focus on tending to it and exploring more effective ways to ethically mitigate and temper human nature before we unleash or locusts-like culture on the cosmos and on ourselves as we travel off-planet. To be honest, I don't think there is much hope for the current generation. I highly doubt I or anyone on this forum will live in Asgardia, off the planet. That's OK. We can still set up our descendants for success through education and, of course, measures to at least stop the damage we're currently doing to the planet. Including conflict resolution lessons/practicums, emotional/mental resiliency, stress management, physical fitness, media literacy, and environmental care-taking/sustainability throughout each level of schooling at progressively challenging levels is a good start so that we normalize the types of behaviors and mindsets that would mitigate the tragedies we seen throughout our history and better prepare the first generations that actually live off-planet as a community for long-durations.

Considering the state of the world for the past several millennia it would be rather hard to convince humans to get off that pattern. As long as borders, money, dogma, greed, and war exists humanity would be entertained. Humans thrive on chaos. Harmony is only a moment of satisfaction. Like a drug to get a nice high, then they continue the momentum again. The only hope for the world would be if an outside influence came here, like extraterrestrials, but even then that just might give humans more a reason to keep the madness alive. As humans we give ourselves reasons to lose our minds so that we can 'keep' our minds at bay. True story. I'm a realist. It will take more than a nation to get humanity convinced. A catastrophe of global proportions might even jump start common sense for humans.

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Kiinda hard to decide Twitch was/is surely the most favourised option out there - as it has a pretty similar minded community behind it, but then youtube gaming is way more accessible for new channels to grow - as the advertisement there is pretty different then on twitch | making overall the life of new streamer's easier and brings more self confidence to the newly started broadcaster {insert thinkface here} I'd prefer for myself, using restream.io as a main host & video decoder - where you can "relink" your stream, to pretty much any platform out there :) I'm not a payed user, so this shouldn't be any product advertisement <-- use it mainly as a stream decoder and also because their servers are more stable and not overused from hundreds of test streamers :P Picked, Twitch - this | next to Hitbox.tv are actually pretty common hosting options YT userbase is kinda b*chy, but then rly helps you getting the advertise you deserve (:

@Brown Bear We had a discussion on using both but we are trying to decide on one or the other to start with. We will eventually be using both in the future.

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I belive should be better Asgardia Defense Forces. The chain of comand should be like the navy( NATO ranks) cause in the future we gonna defend the homeland in ships. Also i belive the ADF shold make the police job also, so the personal gonna be active and role arround always.

If I may offer my two cents, in addition to the Asgardian Defense Service and the Asgardian Intelligence Service (Which to avoid the umbrella ASS acronym, I'd suggest using ASF, or Asgardian Security Forces), I'd like to suggest the ARS, or Asgardian Rescue Service. This could be useful for rescuing people stranded if their rover malfunctions in the middle of nowhere, if we lose contact with an expedition or outpost, if we lose comms with an incoming ship, etc. They should also be trained in VBSS, as in the case of losing comms with a ship, it's entirely possible that it's been hijacked. After all, as space flight becomes more and more commercialized and common, we must be prepared for space-terrorism. I'd also like to suggest the Asgardian Crisis Team, or ACT. These guys would be the ones responding to hostage-takings, terror attacks, or performing guerilla-style defensive operations in the case of an invasion, or other special activities that ordinary defense forces simply aren't going to be trained for. ACT teams would be highly trained, well-equipped, and essentially our SOF. Necessary, I must point out, as even Japan with their SDF have special operators. Every country needs a few warriors capable of doing everything that everyone else can't.

I like the direction this is going: By: nihylum(Asgardian) on 21 December 2016, 2:29 p.m. Ministries from my point of view, should not have services, they should have departments. So, i recommend to standardize it: 1. Department of Defense ( Military ) 2. Department of Intelligence ( Intelligence Service ) 3. Department of Justice ( Police ) in response to By: Charlie on 20 December 2016, 10:21 p.m. As per AIS it is a good and simple name. AIS should be used by all services as central for all intel (police and military and search and rescue units).That is what I would suggest to avoid having separate intelligence services and too much personnel. I agree with the idea of a central intelligence service that would support the Asgardian Government in their foreign policy decisions and also the military I would not recommend that same central intelligence service support the Police. The methods an intelligence service would utilize to support a foreign collection objective should not be used against Asgardian citizens, I would have a separate criminal intelligence support cell for to provide support for domestic security operations.