Dare to dream

Come together as one and when we are one we are home.

I see all the politicians amongst us, talking talking talking.

What we need is progression. A plan.

That is what I will bring to the people of Asgardia .

I will within the first 12months of election bring together government and start our progression with foreign affairs.

I will with our government not only secure our nation's sovereignty, but will have nations recognise our nationality and allow the freedom of movement to as many countries as possible especially those involved with the construction of our home the 'ark'

I will with our elected government have a science and technology minister who will within the first 100days meet with designers at BAE systems in the UK and start the design process of the 'ark' of Asgardia'

Officials will meet with technological industry leaders to assist with the technology and engineering required for our home

Within the first 100days the ground plan for our space nation will be in place with a projected achievable launch window for components for our country.

Within the first 6months we will produce and craft a people's charter, a bill of rights and a bill of statue laws which protected our people.

Our people will gain special status within the countries they reside currently and our home secretary will work with other sovereign nations to try and find a suitable home for our citizens until the launch. If this is viable.

My government will join the Russian financial system Brics to secure additional funding if required to help get us started.

Within the first 30 days Asgardia will accept contributions towards the cost of the design which we intend to make open and available for all nationals to see.

A vote for me isn't just a vote for those things set out above

I intend to deal with large corporations to ensure funding and jobs.

I intend to work with developing businesses and technology to make sure this happens in our life time. We need to be pioneers and take risks

Within the very first year of government we will ensure that not only we progress and have a launch plan and assisting states but we will also make sure we have a shadow cabinet and competitive government.

Working with Russia and China we can expect to make quicker progress with our designation

Working with BAE systems in the UK not only can we ensure safety we can ensure revolutionary ideas are prioritised and that we are getting our best bang for buck

I already have plans that our government will ensure happens including revenue from data storage, transmitted solar power and our latest idea of lenses and mirrors to redirect the sun's energy away from earth towards Mars to help warm up Mars at the equator and the poles .

Working with Elon Musk and national governments we can charge them for this process and help terraform Mars at a quicker more acceptable rate.

This will also help with global warming.

We need to think big and dream.

Turn our dreams into our home.

Asgardian Nationals I call for you to vote for me and help me make all this talk a reality.

Come together as one

When we are one we are home.

We stand together and united as the first space faring nation.

Our pride over ruling any predjudice and our tenacity to get things done a statement to the world that together humanity is stronger.

Working with people of all nations and finding strength were there maybe weakness will be what makes us heads and shoulders above the rest.

The ability to elect successful leaders is in our hands.

I will support any progressive thinkers and every voice shall be heard.

A government led by myself would answer all peoples concerns and would protect the identity of each national.

I would within the first 100 days visit every nation on earth and get the us recognised, I would negotiate the freedom of travel and the freedom to work in any country that is building our home.

Providing a workforce where ever it is needed from the humble cleaner to the architects and engineers.

I would ensure that all people who are nationals the chance to have a passport that protects their freedoms and liberties whilst also ensuring the protection of our sovereignty whilst we launch our home and construction is underway.

Space ports built in key countries allowing affordable launch options for people of all nations whilst negotiating trade deals to off set the cost

Together we are one and once together we are home.

Dare to dream?

Space calls nearer to us, for a world to dream to live in space where we can explore new adventures and be new and start a fresh. I am Creative, Compassionate, and Motivated for a life where we can expand our horizons and create that dream.

Hello fellow Asgardians, i wish to stand for Diversity, Equalities, LGBT, as i am Transgendered i wish to make everyone equal, and allow anyone no matter who they are to just be themselves as we bring Asgardia together and form as one.

Bonjour, camarades Asgardiens, je souhaite défendre la Diversité, les Égalités, les LGBT, alors que je suis transgenre, je souhaite faire tout le monde égal et permettre à quiconque, peu importe qui ils sont d'être eux-mêmes, alors que nous rassemblons Asgardia et nous nous unissons.

Hallo Kollegen Asgardians, ich möchte für Vielfalt, Gleichheiten, LGBT stehen, da ich Transgendered bin, möchte ich alle gleich machen und jedem erlauben, egal wer sie sind, um selbst zu sein, wie wir Asgardia zusammenbringen und uns als eins vereinen.

Hola compañeros Asgardianos, quiero estar de Diversidad, Igualdades, LGBT, ya que soy Transgénero quiero hacer que todos sean iguales, y permitir que cualquier persona no importa quiénes son sólo ser ellos mismos como traer a Asgardia juntos y unirse como uno solo.

Hello fellow Asgardians, what a fantastic opportunity lies before us. As a leader, I would love to supervise the inevitable next step in human evolution - that is, to leave behind our ancient animal instincts that no longer serve a purpose and prove to only hold us back. We all are aware of the fruitfulless of hate and the damage that it causes to our society, and that some sectors of humanity utilise hate for purposes of greed and selfishness. This is no longer needed. We as Asgardians have the opportunity to live in pure peace. I will ensure that those with notions of hate are helped to overcome their ancient instincts and taught the correct way. In addition to this, I vow to put in place the building blocks for a money free society, where resources are provided where they are needed and shared where they are wanted. This is an opportunity that I never thought I would see in my lifetime and would love to bring my enthusiasm into making this a reality and bettering the human race, helping us all realise our true potential. Long live the human race!

To the point, we live in a society where money is everything. It's popular in U.S politics that government officials often receive donations from companies, in return these officials push the laws their donors want and fight to remove the ones they don't want as we've seen recently with the Paris Agreement.

Currently, I believe while the constitution states that no one should be discriminated against however, plans should be enforced regarding corporate bodies from interfering with government and elections.

I believe restrictions should be in place disqualifying a nominated party with direct links to businesses and business owners as well as banning funds/donations from "people of interest" to push laws into place which aren't in the best interest of the people. Corruption is the poison of positive progress.

Another one of my beliefs is that elected officials must hold a university education related to their role in order to effectively perform said role within the government as opposed to how current political systems work on Earth, an example of this is the U.S Education Secretary who currently holds nothing but a degree in Art with no experience within the education system.

Science, Nature, and Health should be held to the highest regard as opposed to money and power with these three important subjects focused on to accelerate past Earths progress and lead humans into a new age.

These are the core beliefs I would push forward if elected Trendsetter or Ambassador in order to protect the future government of Asgardia from the threat of corruption from corporate interference.

Support progress, not money and war.

Прогрессия, не деньги и война.

P.s - Free cookies and ice cream.

A picture is worth a thousand words, a split second in captured time. A call for posterity to project and so I added mine. The capture may not be my best and I've tried with edit to show, the many collative facets of my interests in a pixelated tableau.  My online presence extends decades and is as much a part of me, therefore I submit condensed history as last bequest, to an orbital gallery.

~Amethysta

I use the moniker ‘monkey with lego’ to help push my theme of humans with tools that are capable of building anything the imagination can conjure. The people I’m happy to call friends just call me ‘D’.

I’m 33. I was born in York, England in 1982 and I’m part of the special generation of kids, whose parents were the first generation to learn programming and then teach their children to write computer code and silly games – basically it was an entertaining hobby to tinker about making our own toys on the screen. Then my generation was given home internet access  – Suddenly we were making toys that could talk to other peoples toys..on the other side of the planet! Information sharing networks popped up – ideas and knowledge began to flow, knowledge increased, research became a new skill to learn whatever you wanted – all in the public domain… and this is when things got very interesting.

Like most professionals involved in a trade for a long time, you start collecting ideas and bake them in your mind for many years, or you come across individuals with nuggets of information to expand on these ideas. A geek is always evolving and cross-breeding different ideas – it’s a creative process and you entertain the ridiculous in order to discover something you might be the first to do. If time or money were no limit – I believe everyone has ideas to produce some pretty amazing contributions that leave permanent positive change with their skills. My passion is using technology in new ways to realise great social benefit, and at this current time I’m focused on using technology to harness the power of social systems for group-driven engines, group ideas and group data sharing – big fat slices of crowd-sized data from as many people as possible. It’s not that we don’t have the skills between us to fix most problems – it’s that we’ve not met everyone, not likely to be able to – so we need help in identifying people with compatible ideas for collaboration – standing on the shoulders of giants to build something unexpected.

Despite all my focus on a digital age, computer technology and it’s potential – I’m not someone who is permanently glued to their computer or always tapping into a mobile computer device. Technology has a place, but nature is still far more interesting to me. I’m mesmerised by books like ‘the secret life of plants’ and realising that all those tree’s and animals outside our window are actually capable of communication, that whales and dolphins are more advanced than we are (See Dr John C Lilly). I find nature a far easier source of awe than technology. Time and evolution has grown and perfected the perfect operating systems and communication networks in the form of nature and natural systems. If you have a problem – go out into nature and I guarantee you’ll find a natural evolved answer to the same problem nature already solved.

Did you know bee’s in a hive dance to vote on things? There is a different dance routine for each idea put forward – When a dance move is obviously becoming the most popular – the decision that dance represented is automatically adopted as the group decision for the hive. It’s called a quorum – the minimum number of dancers to reach for it to be declared consensus and agreed in the bee law. I quite like leaderless systems and that can often get people called a variety of names and seen a bit strange, but I’ll tell you why – as seen in nature. It doesn’t guarantee the best outcome each time because of the time it takes to share knowledge of all options across a hive. What it does ensure is that it never see’s a bad outcome so its a clear winner for the benefit of the whole group. An organisational structure that see’s one member with a role of total power comes at a big risk – world war 2 is a good example. Who can ever really be qualified to decide the interests of every member? It’s an impossible job. I look to natures group decision systems within hives and colonies because group consensus is THE big challenge of the human race. It’s hard to agree between lots of people, we can’t communicate efficiently and the biggest strength and weakness of us all is our natural human emotional response – we’ve all experienced temporary logic changes degrading our communication and decision making abilities. We’ve been pretty rubbish at this whole getting along game because of the complex challenges of communication and leadership both within large tribes and between large tribes.

I was briefly involved in a communications start-up to help MP’s better manage their written letter correspondence with those they represent – it’s hard to listen to everyone and lot of time is spent by parliament members in reading letters and answering the same things. Parliament is absolutely showered with constant communication and they can’t keep on top of it – so many people raising the same issues and every person must get a reply. It was seen useful to have a system where people could see existing letters and responses to be more efficient in not duplicating enquiries – a great tool being trialled which was the idea of a Politics students to ease some workload.

I mention problems, but never without putting forward hope and solutions! It’s always been a multi-generational approach to evolve – to make tools to pass to the next generation who will use them to make even better tools. Progress is slow because communication is hard with so many people – but we’ve just hit a time when international communications and information sharing has been cracked wide open by my generation. Loosely quoting another ‘social thinker’ named David Babbs – Have you ever considered that the system we use to make laws, safeguard our health, decide foreign policy, shape education and our future has not changed since it was introduced in the 12 century? The same system from a time in history when the best option available was for the people of an area to nominate a man with a horse to ride to London to represent them? This is the best way of putting it that I have come across – but moving to the present day, can the internet and the device in my pocket offer any improvements in this representation and interaction?

Tech imagineers of our younger generations have no idea on how important they are. This new role as ‘Data Scientist’ that we’ve put together over the last few years  is going to completely engage new generations who will start learning about it at school (hopefully). This will fuse discovery with imagination, creativity, technological advancement and most importantly – collaboration with others. The path ahead of them and what they are going to build is going to be more revolutionary and transformational to the betterment of the human race than anything else seen in history. They will see more change in their lifetime than any of us. Foster them, invest in them, encourage their creativity, let them research whatever they are passionate about, never punish them for challenging you but instead be sure to answer every uncomfortable question their curiosity seeks. Each generation is smarter than the last because they are standing on the shoulders of the ones before them  – so just make sure their view is of unlimited potential for whatever they can imagineer. Start them early in creating and building…lego, lots of it.

As an elected representative, I will work in the interests of Asgardia and humanity to achieve widespread health, hope, and happiness. Particular concerns include:

1) Environmental degradation (pollution, climate change, logging, etc.) as a result of poorly regulated business practices. A system of corporate capitalism has developed in which huge corporations subvert market dynamics to their own short-term profit motive at the expense of wider society. It is imperative to design an economic system to maximize human wellbeing and progress without promoting or entrenching inequality.

2) Overpopulation. The scalability of resource production on an orbital platform will be limited. Therefore, I would prioritize planning ahead regarding population dynamics and developing policies or educational tools to maintain the population size in step with resource availability (with an adequate safety margin). These thought processes also have applicability on Earth.

3) Energy production. Technical challenges currently prevent emigration from Earth. The path to overcoming these challenges is slowed by the limitations of our current energy production technologies. I would allocate resources to promoting the use of arising technologies (e.g., next-generation solar) as power sources on Earth and in Space.

Vote for me, I am an actor, so have the voice and confidence to speak out for YOU, and issues you have. You can trust me to do the right thing in any situation. Im also young, so I am here to represent the next generation that will safeguard Earth, Space and Life!

In a world were individualism creates decrees of power that dictates instability, social and financial stability that destabilise world peace a share vision by a group of individuals that work towards a common goal, becoming first experience explorers in a new world will power the future for generation to come.

Speculatively I cast my ten bucks into the project pot. But what does a satellite cost and is it a lot? Well, what I have read, on a Pegasus XL as a pillion; it's possible to launch a LEO satellite for just $14 million. With 209,000+ Asgardians contributing, each with good grace; it's not really that much to hang a Nation's satellite in space.

~Amethysta Starfall

Working towards an inspirational future where humanity has an opportunity to become an advanced species of sentient beings where equality and evolution collide to create a species or breed of humans not confined to worship of false gods but to scientific exploration and intelligence yet understanding the universal connection between all creatures and the universe itself

HELLO FUTURE ASGARDIANS. I HOPE ONE DAY WE CAN ALL LIVE OUR DREAM AND LIVE AMONGST THE STARS, MAYBE TO GO AS FAR AS INTESTELLAR STAR SYSTEMS SUCH AS PROXIMA CENTAURI. I LONG FOR PEACE AND HAPPINESS FOR ALL OF MANKIND AND TO FINALLY STRIDE OUT AMONGST THE COSMOS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT US AND POSSIBLY OTHER INTELLIGENT LIFE.

MURRAY STEEL, UK

Hello and greetings from the UK.

I've just been reading about the asgardia venture for a trans-ethnic, trans-religious multicultural community and hub for the establishment of mankind in the cosmos. I am here In full support and really look forward to getting involved in this community on all fronts of possible.

I am a physics masters and bachelors graduate currently reading for my PhD in soft matter physics at the universities of Leeds, Durham & Edinburgh (All UK) I am a keen amateur drama enthusiast and have a keen passion for learning and knowledge. I am currently learning some basic programming skills as an aside to my PhD and love a good game of squash (first Squash game in asgardia anyone?)

o7 Asgardians,

Joel-David

If we're going to base our democracy on a digital platform surely it would make sense to at least host everything bar the front facing access site in a private cloud which can be properly controlled against general intrusion. Another easy win is access validation- if the Asgardian government becomes recognised as a certifying authority we could issue legally recognised digital signatures to all citizens which would be a massive leap ahead if we do this as a society rather than leaving it to a commercial body to profit from our requirement to be able to prove identity in the noosphere. Anyone got experience working with digital certs?