Im an American Citizen. I was born and raised in a very great country with great leaders and great citizens. I am a well educated white man, married with three children. An Engineer, a combat Veteran, college and high school graduate. I love my wife, my kids, my job and would die for my Nation, Ive spilled blood for my Nation. How many people, how many of my fellow Asgardians can say they have spilled there blood for their Nations? Not many, I would guess.

Many People bash Americans and our Leaders. Many people hate America and by default hate Americans.

Today, I experienced something that I could take two different ways. I was running for office Trendsetter (0 votes out of 1000). Someone posted, a caution and then another posted a link for laws for Americans holding office in Foriegn Nations. It said that you could lose your American citizenship if you did so. I dont scare easily, but I did think about it amlnd did my own research into it. So I just withdrew my candidacy. The link also made me think that those that Posted it were either Americans looking out for ither Americans or they were fro. other countries trying to get all Americans to drop out of elections due to hating America and Americans in general.

I dont want to think that just because I am an American (which I believe my Nation is the greatest) that people from all over the world hate me. I have done nothing to harm you nor have I done any thing to help you personally.

my rant is done. sorry about that, I get to thinking sometimes.

I write this sitting at home while my wife is at the park setting up for a family reunion. While at the park Fire Trucks, police cars amd fire fighter helicopters desend upon the park. Some teenagers spotting some smoke while hiking in an area that saw fire last week. Nothing major to report, they are putting it out.

So, ehy do I bring up fires. Well when I was in the US Navy, we went through fire fighting amd damage control schools and continued our training every day while out to see and in port as well.

Asgsrdia, will need every citizen to train in Fire Fighting amd Damage Control procedures. Especially of we are to live in space aboard a space station.

We can and must set up here on Earth a training center for all Asgardian citizens to train in all things space. from Zero G, to fire fighting and damage control, to evacuation procedures. Much how like NASA trains its Astronaughts, or the US Navy trains its sailors.

If you want to know more, just ask.

Dear People of Earth and Asgardia,

I Aziel Melek, am fully committed to providing my services as one of your many honored and esteemed ambassadors for Earth and the Nation Asgardia. I hereby submit my bid for the title and am honored to be considered an ambassador. I on the 15th Day of July the year of 2017 A.D. fully and solely commit myself and my resources as well as my knowledge and wisdom to leading the nation and providing an example for peace and tranquility for the galaxy.

Aziel Melek

Greetings everyone,

I have always been fascinated by the idea of our future descendants being able to look into the sky and acknowledge, that they have become a multi-planetary civilization. With this in mind, when I first heard of Asgardia, I thought to myself that its concept is something straight out of a science fiction movie and that it is just a new blog of some sort.  However, after researching its origins with our Head of Nation Igor Ashurbeyli, a talented business man and a notable figure in the Aerospace industry, I discovered his initiative to create the world's first space nation is very serious.

But as with any great undertaking, it must first start small and continue to move forward with determination, perseverance and perhaps most importantly in this case, vision.

As your candidate for Debutant, I wish to integrate more of my constituents into the process of formalizing our government and educating the general public about the purpose and values of Asgardia.

I hope we can move forward into this great vision together as one. Thank you for your consideration.

Please send us more information as to what will be expected of all Asgardian professionals such as Engineers (I'm an Engineer myself), doctor's, lawyers etc. etc. to do once we are a Nation? What do I mean by this? Well, I'm looking for some sort of direction that we can be given and that we can take to improve Asgardia and any Space based assets that may come our way within the next 10-30 years or longer.

We have a lot of eager people who are willing to do a lot for this new Nation. Once the world recognizes us as a Nation, we will have to begin to produce and be productive members of the world. We should hold lectures on Forming Businesses, Engineering, Medicine, Sciences, Finance, Education, Sports & Entertainment and Law and Politics.

We should stand up some Learning platform online where all Citizens of Asgardia (those of us who have accepted the Constitution and verified our information on this site) can go Log on to the site and take courses that will be needed now and in the Future, like Maths, Science, Engineering, Programming and the like.

The National Bank can be set up at any time. As can the BlockChain SOLAR crypto-currency, that money should be made available to all verified Asgardians before the rest of the world can purchase or mine for those coins.

We should also look into Security Forces. A Nation will need to defend itself, not only from outside Nations, but from internal strife. A Police and Fire Fighting organizations will also be needed.

Lets begin by talking about all of this and setting up some of the badly needed institutions.

Thank you!

I wrote this a while ago for a brief training course I had to give to my fellow engineers when our departments were combining. Its very basic and it needs a bit more work. But it will have to do for the purposes I have in mind.

Often times people think that, if we think of something, that it can be built with no issues and its a done deal. The process of creating something a product or process has steps you must follow. It also needs a timing schedule and cost of development, cost of the people's salary/wages, cost of materials. I don't think most people really think about these types of things. Then you have a program manager, Program or Product Engineer, Systems Engineers, Hardware and Software Engineers and a few to very many technicians, you may even have Subject Matter Experts (SME). Then you have a customer to deal with. I have always told people that Engineering is 10% actual work, and 90% documentation. Your Documents are key to a good product.

I hope this gives you some basic understanding of what it takes to be an Engineer working for an aerospace firm.

ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES: THE BASICS

BY: DAVID SHAHAL – SYSTEMS ENGINEER

USER REQUIREMENTS:

1. Requirements – This is what the customer(s) want the product to accomplish.
   1. Hardware Requirements – Power supply voltages, wiring, timing, types of materials to be used etc. etc.
   2. Software Requirements – What the software is supposed to accomplish and how it is to do it.
   3. System level Requirements – Overall view of what the product is supposed to do, how it works with other products within a system.
2. Low Level requirements are the nuts and bolts of what the product is supposed to do. These give you the details of your hardware and software
3. High Level requirements are a general overview of what the product is supposed to do.

Requirements are put into statements such as: The box SHALL operate in -200 degree F, temperatures. The box MAY operate in -500 degree F, temperatures, or box WILL operate in -1000 degree F, temperatures.

WILL - Statements are a must have in your design.

MAY - Statements are a maybe/wants in the design.

SHALL - statements are musts as well, but can be changed if needed.

TESTING:

1. It becomes necessary to create test sets for the proper testing of the product. Unless we can use another companies test equipment. We may need to build our own.
2. Creation of test procedures
3. Creation of test reports
4. System integration
5. Tests should be standard
   1. Must be robust
   2. Must test the limits of the product
      1. Upper limits
      2. Lower limits
      3. Middle
      4. Must test the unit to fail – this helps to work out the bugs (in other words when I test I want my tests to make the unit under test to fail, I’m testing the robustness of the unit and software). You will be amazed at the things you learn when you make the unit fail. The upper limits of the unit especially.

QUALITY:

1. Need to perform all Engineering activities to a quality specification (the following are examples)
   1. ISO9001 (for example) - Aerospace always follows ISO standards
   2. FAA regulations
   3. NASA or EASA or some other Space organization
2. Documentation
   1. Requirements documents
   2. Hardware design documents
   3. Software design documents
   4. Test procedure
   5. Test reports
   6. Equipment specification
   7. User manuals
   8. Glossary of terms
   9. Verification and traceability matrix document

Personel

1. Must be trained as an Engineer
   1. Hold a degree and or proper certifications
2. Must be a trained technician
   1. Hold a certification/license
3. Quality
   1. Must be trained in proper quality management
4. Program Management - PM
5. Program Engineer or Product Engineer
6. Systems Engineering (This is what I do)
7. Hardware Engineering
8. Software Engineering
9. Subject Matter Experts - SME

Asgardia, I believe has a real chance at becoming something real and something great. People need to realize that the creation of any Nation does not and will not happen over night. There is so much that needs to happen. Not only in terms of a Constitution, Flag, National Anthum and Coat of Arms, but the logistics of actually creating the institutions that help run a country (Local Governments, State Governments, National Government, even department of education, State, energy etc. etc.) I could go on and on.

People need to know that (In my humble opinion) I believe that Dr. Igor has the best intentions of everyone at heart. Of course, it would be nice to hear more on what he is doing? What are these Space Platforms we are hearing about, how many people can they house. The FAQ states one will be ready in about 10 years with Humans flights to it starting in 8 years. This leads me to believe that the Platform is already in the Development stages. But by whom and where?

Many people have great ideas on what they would like to see and do on a Space Station. I hope he is listening and knows what the people are asking for. Maybe one day we will be living in space and we will need the various things that people are talking about, but until then we should work together to build a better world down here on Earth in our own countries, in our own backyards.

Right now I feel as if this is becoming one big joke to many people. Everyone on here wants to be able to go to space and live there. So far we have people in the Forums running for office, but they have no idea what type of office position they will hold. What is a Local Leader anyway? How does one become one? What do they do?

How about the Leadership of this new Nation, posts a video or something stating what's going on?

All the people on here are speculating upon what to do. How to do it, and no one knows for sure what will be allowed, if Asgardia will be built, and sent up to Space. No one knows how much this will cost, how much per person will have to pony up. In my opinion, I think Dr. Igor will only select the smartest, most educated people to go up to the Space Platform with him. Until it is built up (which could take decades or more to complete), the rest of the people will be stuck on Earth complaining about whether or not Pot or McDonalds will be legal on Asgardia.

The premise is great, Live, work and play on a Space Station. A new Nation, with New Constitution (that so far reads as a joke, with many flaws), a flag and song. OH well. I'm not sure I will be a part of this for much longer. But we will see.

Asgardia is now reminding me of a giant Role Playing Game, minus the dice. Too many people are making what I consider speculation as to the nature of Asgardia and who will design the Station. In my expert opinion, the design work has been done by the Founder and his firm or a firm that he has already chosen. The Satalite has been completed and was designed many many moons ago before the site was operational, I bet. Meaning all of this has been planned many many years in advance.

People are really itching to get this project off the ground (pun intended) and start living off world. Why do i think the design work has already been done or is in the process of, because looking through the FAQ, it says in 10 years we will have a Space Platform and in 8 we will have humans being able to goto the platform.

Im just thinking that Asgardia has too many unanswered questions for all of us, that the leadership has to answer.

The People who have signed up to become citizens are asked to vote on a constitution that is very flawed at best and dangerous at worst. Read it and reread it multiple times if needed. You will need to know your rights as a citizen.

As to the game reference, well role a 20 amd you get to go to space, role a 1 and the rocket carrying you blows up upon launch.

Id like to see whom is going to be the first people allowed on the Space Station. What kinds of educated and uneducated people alike will be allowed. I think the Founder will set a quota or some sort of criteria that says this person or that person is allowed or not allowed. Like who will benefit the station and the leadership more over the other?

I digress, I want to see this succeed as much as anyone else. I just have many questions that will go unanswered until the founder repliessome day.

It's important that as we start to move off-world that retain what was important and special about our home communities. Long Beach has a soul and I want to make sure that soul can survive the vacuum of space. Long Beach has much to offer and it should be properly represented.

I am an Engineer, I have been since 2000. I started off as an Avionics Technician in the US Navy, then went on to become an Instrumentation Calibration technician in the biomedical industry. I now work for an Aerospace Firm in the Los Angeles, CA area near LAX airport. I'm a Systems Engineer. I make sure my systems works with the other systems in the Aircraft, the same ones you fly in when traveling on Vacation.

I work on complex systems, that tell the ground crews to replace the landing gear, or another avionics box is broken and to replace it. It monitors the health of the engines and aircraft as a whole.

Am I an expert on all things Aerospace? No, I have a lot to learn, but I am learning day by day and take a bunch of courses to further my education.

Is Asgardia, going to be up and running in my lifetime, I really don't think so. It will take a large firm to get the basics down, like the station structure , life support, radiation shielding, water, heating and cooling, waste, and that is just to start.

Is there a plan of action on the founders Part? If there is, we have no idea. I hope there is. I hope he is already planning on creating this station with a Firm of his choosing or creation. I would love to be a part of it, but I do not think he will open the design phase to just any one single engineer.

We shall see. Don't give up the ship just yet my friends.

For me, Asgardia means, new life, hope, change, exploration and challenge.

I think for many people it means different things, but we have all signed up to become citizens. We have all joined in some of the discussions (see forums and blogs), we have also begun the voting process for our Constitution, Flag, National Song, and our leadership (I'm running, I hope you will vote for me!) We have begun the first step to a new era in space and a new era of humanity.

So, tell me what does Asgardia mean to you?

With the likes of Elon Musk at SpaceX and Tesla, it takes a certain type of person to make positive change in our world. The creation of a great All Electric car (Tesla), and an inexpensive mode of space flight (reusable rockets) at SpaceX has ushered in a new era of space exploration and the way we use Electricity.

Asgardias founder has come up with what I believe to be a great idea, a New Nation. The First Space Nation - ASGARDIA. The beginning of which was just a thought and a website where millions of people could join for free to become citizens of this New Nation. I signed up almost right away. Like many of you, I want the chance at a new and interesting future for all of our families. With global climate change and wars and who knows what lay beyond our Earth Orbit ready to destroy the Earth. The likes of S. Hawkin saying we need to be a two or more species, Elon Musk saying he will build a colony on Mars, it makes it all the more reason to get off world and living in space.

So, how are we going to go about this? I believe we have already taken the first step and signed up to become citizens of Asgardia. We are also voting for the Constitution, Flag, National Song and our Leaders (one of which is me).

I have many questions about Funding, Research and Development of new technologies that will go into the Space Station and our Constitution.

Recently, Asgardia began offering its citizens the opportunity to be heard through a petition process that promised a government review of every petition that accumulated at least 1000 votes. "What an excellent idea," I thought to myself. A suggestion box for Asgardia! At that time, there were only a dozen or so petitions submitted - visible under the SpaceNation\Petitions at the top menu of the homepage.  In my excitement, I decided to petition for an improvement to the idea. My first petition was titled something similar to this (I wasn't able to recover after I submitted it):

Petition 1.

EVERY PETITION WILL BE REVIEWED & APPROVED/REJECTED BY THE ASGARDIAN CITIZENS WITHOUT THE NEED OF MINIMUM SUPPORT - WITH GOVERNMENT RETAINING VETO POWER (IF EXERCISED WITHIN 90 DAYS).

The idea was to have every suggestion reviewed and approved/rejected by the active citizenry of Asgardia without the need of fabricating any amount support. This would allow any citizen to have a voice, a connection of ideas to the masses. A few minutes after the petition was submitted I received the following e-mail:

SUBJECT: Your petition has been approved by the moderating team

"Asgardia.Space"Asgardia.Spaceno-reply@asgardia.space> "Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 1:37 PM" 1:37 PM (19 hours ago)

Your petition did not get approved by the moderating team , and will not be posted.If you would like to dispute the decision, please contact the moderating team.

It was accepted on the subject and rejected on the body!!!  (NOTE: 24 hours later, the petition had not been posted)

Nothing else followed - no contact information or resolution process was provided. There was no link to contact the moderating team, not even an email address. A knew a phone number would be out of the question.

After leisurely perusing the site looking for the contact information and finding none (after 15 minutes or the equality of infinity in web browsing terms), I grew concerned about the level of difficulty in the search for this valuable information. So I decided to look for my petition - somehow I had 'assumed' wrongly that it would be saved to my profile. I did not find it, and I grew concerned. Where did my petition go? "I should have made a copy," I reprimanded myself. So I wrote a new petition (This time I saved it in the event that it became unretrievable again). It went exactly like this:

Petition 2.

PETITIONS REJECTED BY THE MODERATOR SHOULD INCLUDE THE BASIS FOR REJECTION ON THE REJECTION EMAIL AND AN EMAIL TO ADDRESS CONCERNS - ALSO ALL REJECTED PETITIONS SHOULD ACCESSIBLE FOR POSTERITY PURPOSES.

When a petition is rejected by the petition-moderator, citizens get an email simply stating that the petition was rejected and to contact the moderator for explanations. No email, link or reference number is given. Above all, no hint about the reason for rejection.

For all purposes, the petition is lost. There is no link in the citizen's profile to return to it or to make edits prior to resubmission (if necessary).

The response on Sat, Jun 24, 2017, at 4:42 PM (16 hours ago) was equally perplexing. The petition was accepted on the subject line and rejected on the body of the email message.

I looked at the other petitions to see if mine had been too extremist in comparison. I found a range of constitutional amendment suggestions, taking over unclaimed land territory in Earth, and deep space exploration-habitable planet search -- ALL of these had been accepted and posted to the petition forum and open to voting. Why then were my petitions rejected, censored? Why the conflicting approval/rejection email message? Was it a TEAM or was it an individual rejecting the petitions? Why wasn't the moderator team contact information provided? But equally important, where is Petition 1, shouldn't I have access to it for revisions?

In conclusion, in my attempt to expand the fantastic idea of having every citizenry's voice openly heard at the critical stage of a nation's birth, I discovered that an individual or small team is deciding the fate of every citizen's petition - the birth of censorship.

Shouldn't leadership take notice and begin upholding & solidifying the Asgardian core principles?