With all of Earths nations gaining interest in Asgardia, why don't Global Commerce and Corporations Pay Their Corporate revenue to help fund a colony outside of the earth. As asgardia would give them trade deals in return for guaranteed contracts to build such a colony by way of manufacturing of funding and manufacturing of fittings and materials, as well as a whole host of other services. Simply put we always assume mankind is safe on earth and no rush required. But what if the odds are not as much in our favour as what we'd like to hope that they are. Mankind has been proven wrong many times in the past.

Will Asgardia have learned the lessons of Earths past, so as not to replicate all events in Earths history all over again, should Asgardia one day be in the form of it's own human colony outside of planet Earth, Id like to think so, or will we inevitably have to go through all those events once again, (all those matters from War, Terrorism, So on, etc...

Thanks to me the asgardia steam group is a mess and I've come here to say that I'm sorry. However this is not just an apology it is a request for ideas. I need to know what you guys and glas think will work because if we cant get the gaming community to grow we won't be able to do things that we have been planning. __________________________________________________________________________________ So, how do you feel we should go about handling the steam group.... bearing in mind that we only have 3 roles to work with.

The Asgardia gaming society is growing and we want your feeback, the question is: "if we were to set up an account for the community to use which platform would you prefer it to be on?" ________________________________________________________________________________ We feel that this question is important to ask now to test how you feel the community should grow and what we can do to make this a great success. The votes from the poll are not definate and once we get a Streaming & Video team set up we'll probably release another poll. ________________________________________________________________________________ Until then please join our discord and make yourself known, If we can grow the community size then we will be able to be officially recognised by asgardia :) ________________________________________________________________________________ Discord link: https://discord.gg/NNmhSuZ

The topic is now here: https://asgardia.space/en/forum/forum/gaming-150/topic/asgardian-gaming-community-1048/ __________________________________________________________________________________ thankyou for everyones input and votes on the polls, they are still open along with the topics responses. __________________________________________________________________________________ Discord link: https://discord.gg/NNmhSuZ | Steam link: http://bit.ly/2iOVlyn

Hi, its a simple idea but whilst I'm sure Asgardia will assemble task groups dedicated to security, it is important to pay attention to any security conscerns that Asgardian Citizens may encounter. I realised there needs to be a clearly marked place for this when I encountered what appears to be an online scam claiming to be "Asgardia's market place" but its clearly just ripping off the name and infringing on copyrights! However, I didnt know where to post it so I posted it un the businesses section seeing as it pertained to that topic... and also because I wanted to check if it was legitimate or not (I could have missed some information potentially) but after examining the site and all the things they claim to have access to, I strongly doubt their legitimacy. There needs to be a part of the forum and a dedicated email address for any and all citizens to be able to report any inappropriate use of Asgardia's name, reputation, or any material belonging to Asgardia. Essentially what that site was and is doing is fraud. If you want i can repost the link to the site again but I have already done so in the other forum page. Feel free to contact me if you need any more information, screenshots, or names.

I hope I don't have to say that for too long! Humans don't need borders, we are not designed to segregate ourselves, hate our brothers and sisters for no reason. We are all family and should move together peacefully, this project is fantastic, whether I'm alive to see it through does not matter, being a part of it at the very beginning does. I hope 2017 is a good year for all of you Asgardians! Tom

I would like to discuss the possibility of changing how democracy is upheld in Asgardia, by inviting you to review and assess a system designed to remove as much bias and unsuitability as is physically possible from the election process itself. I have no doubt that many of you have seen how democracy and politics are currently handled by our modern politicians, and the problems inherent with such a system; a single person campaigning for popularity, regardless of the promises they make and then never being held accountable. The whole process often swamped in enormous donations to fund a campaign of rallies, speeches, and advertising. My question to you is; what does any of that have to do with running the country? It is my firm belief that Asgardia should work to remove such fallacious thinking from our politics, and instead convert to a system deliberately designed to combat popularity, advertising, and lies. My recommendation for this is the system I propose below (with a link to the original, formatted document at the bottom of this post); a system that anonymises candidates to remove popularity bias. The system removes the whole aspect of money and funding from the democratic process by removing campaigning altogether. The system has only one potential flaw in the form of bias, and that would be through the individual candidate examination and results package. Finally, I am aware that many people will argue that such a system, with such little public attention drawn to any one particular candidate or set of policies may not be truly be proportionally representative, and to you I ask how are the current systems any better? They have very, very similar flaws in that the public is swayed by lies from the candidate, smear campaigns by their opposition, stories in the media that may not be relevant, and advertising designed to trigger psychological processes. People who are not often interested in voting are brought in by promises that may not be upheld, or by the mass outrage caused during the campaign process. I argue that this system at least reduces the number of false positives to those who are truly interested in the democratic system and are willing to debate the finer points that actually matter, E.G. a set of policies, or a candidate's suitability based on relevant information, rather than their gender, age, or stories from the press. As such, please see below for the system I propose.   #**Asgardia Blind Voting system proposal** ####Concept developed by Stephen Skepper, written by Adam York, edited and approved by Asgardians. *Note: Currently, viable candidates should be selected by the Asgardian administration, however in the future, selections for individual ministries should be handed over to the ministries themselves for approval by the public.*   ##**Proposal Submission**   Any Asgardian may submit a single proposal to a democratic process board consisting of a group of individuals responsible for running the election in question. The makeup and rules of this board is to be debated separately. The proposals may be revised three times over the course of the election, but final drafts have a final submission deadline of midnight, four weeks (28 days) before the beginning of the debates. Within each proposal must be an overview statement of purpose their plans for the future of the nation and/or ministry and how those plans would be implemented and how the budget proposals would function. Each proposal must contain the following sections; -*Overview*; outlining the mission of the candidate. -*Major Goals*; outlining the direction they wish to take the ministry/nation. -*Primary Plans*; a list of UP TO THREE major full-term objectives that become legally binding; achieving them or not will not be judged, but the candidate should be held to accountability for the words they use, and unwillingness to follow the proposals they make should come under scrutiny to avoid false promises. -*Secondary Plans*; a list of UP TO SEVEN long-term objectives that may or may not expand on the primary plans, but are equally legally binding. -*Tertiary Plans*; a list of UP TO TEN non-legally binding short-term objectives that may or may not aid in the previous objectives, and are not legally binding. -*Budget Plans*; a detailing of how the Ministry/nation's budget will be used to achieve the plans. -*Expected Outcomes*; a list of results that the plans are expected to achieve in their implementation. -*Failsafes*; a detailing of how the candidate expects to counter any problems that may occur through implementation of plans. -*Summary*; a brief run-down of the key points of all of the above. The proposals would be made public record through the democratic process board such that each citizen not only has the right to read over each proposal, but the free and limitless access to do so. This subsection would take roughly one third of the total process.   ##**The Debates** Once the proposals are submitted, verified for requirements (regardless of their seriousness) and made public, an interactive forum will be opened to allow the national media and Asgardian public the right to debate any given proposal. While candidates themselves may have no hand in answering questions directly or indirectly to retain anonymity, current and previous ministers may make interpretations based on the proposal using their relevant knowledge to attempt to answer media and public questions. This would be an open question and answer platform that all citizens could participate in, to remain open for a period of time no shorter than a third of the total process.   ##**Candidate Suitability** Candidates must then be examined themselves for their suitability to the role. This is a multi-step process that requires all candidate data to remain anonymous, and thus be controlled by the democratic process board. It is important to note that this section, while it may take some time to complete, must be updated regularly as we learn more about psychology and suitability. *Step One* - all viable candidates are interviewed by a committee of dedicated interviewers with a set of criterion and given scores and comments based on the individual job requirements/candidate's target role. Candidates are also interviewed on their depth of knowledge of current issues that are pertinent to their target role. *Step Two* - each candidate is given a psychological evaluation to determine their political and economic system positions, their ability to handle stress, their willingness to be subversive, and any other personality evaluations as they become pertinent through research and development of psychology. *Step Three* - a candidate’s educational background is researched and included with the results, minus any and all detailing about their particular teachers, and the school they attended. Only the grades, scores, awards and honours are to be included in their entirety. *Step Four* - the results for each are given to the democratic process board to strip all identifying information and amend any evaluations/interview results to remove words like "he" and "she", and match psychological evaluations to interview results, and then to their respective proposal. As each set is created, it is assigned a number through a random number generator. *Step Five* - the re-written, numbered results packages are then given to the Asgardian administration to publish no fewer than two weeks (14 days) before election day via all available media outlets and begin the final procedure. During the entire process, media outlets and the public are prohibited by law from publishing candidate details that may have leaked accidentally.   ##**The Voting Stage** During a formal voting procedure on election day, the public goes to their respective polling stations and chooses a candidate from the numbered list. After the election, results would then be released to the public for examination.   *Developer’s Note: It is important to recognise that this system can be applied to local council/senator/governor/representative elections, national elections and more! It is designed to be an independent system specifically to remove showmanship, favouritism and bias from the democratic process.*   The original document can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F88mS3r4yr56mmmadKFNYCqQ7uN9goJmjWI5GRzq9HE/edit

Gaming has become a part of daily lives for many people so, why not make a gaming community for Asgardians? Think about it: an Asgardian wing in elite dangerous, an Asgardian steam group, Asgardian discord! the possabilities are endless. If you are interested then lets get it set up. If you want please post suggestions on what we could expand the community into (games wise)

I'm as new here as anyone, so I'm just opening a thread to say hi from England, I'm Jez. Whilst I enjoy discussions on philosophy and the science of the day, my heart lies in the arts. So, say hello on this generic 'welcome' thread why don't you, and let's get stuck in! Peace!