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For everyone who has yet to see my most recent post, I feel this is a moment to where we need to take an interlude and actually think about what is going on.

As a community, we need to gather and focus. I am calling out the candidates I am friended with here, this is part of your job. I have not yet created a Candidate Profile only for the fact that I am deciding where I am heading towards at the moment.

I am fully aware of what is needed to create an entire nation, and we need to work on that yes, but stop for a moment and think. Before we can establish tourism, before we can establish community lines and laws, we need some place to rest.

Band together. Bring everyone in, and focus everyone's efforts. The forum is a great place for this, sure, but it is too scattered. There are too many people posting about trivial stuff that they wish to see implemented in an imaginary place and taking away from our energy. We need a way to reproduce gravity. Find the engineers and physicists, that are hiding in the background and let's get them working on it.

We need a way to breath. Let us find the chemists and figure out how we can replicate nitrogen so that we can cut pure oxygen with it. Bring more engineers in here and see if we can engineer a system that can create moisture from the molecules in the air to recreate clouds and rain.

We need a way to transport all of the material into space without exorbitant amount of money, better space suits that still counter radiation but are not as clunky and bulky as the ones we currently use. We need to focus so much more on this than everything else being bickered about.

Sure, we can wait for all of the elections and the government stuff to be over, but by then it will be too late. The Head specifically stated at the Inauguration that "Within 25 years, we will have a space station and moon colonies." I do not know what they have planned, but we cannot sit around waiting for them and go with their flow. Plan, plan, design, wait, and then petition and prove we can do it in 20 years. If there is ever a chance of us doing this within our lifetimes, it is now.

Share this blog, share it on your page, share it with your friends. Let us remind everyone why we are here and how to do it. Let us form the core of Asgardia that we can attach our name to with the very creation of it.

The whole forum doesn't count. The rules will be decided upon regardless of what we think, etc. We need to form a concrete party to ensure that this happens, and happens in a way that is most beneficial for everyone. So again, share this, bring everyone into the party that we can and we can start working on ideas and plans that are actually beneficial to the creation of a country.

A continuation from my previous blog post.

While we have the possibility of hydroponics to create adequate food within the colony, there are a few other things we need to take into consideration.

One of those issues is gravity, which can be recreated to some extent. However the process of obtaining the proper minerals to recreate something similar to the Earths core and the proper rotation speed would be expensive and costly. That however is a topic for another time.

This should have been a topic prior to my original, as before we can even consider establishing food production and building in space, we need to consider oxygen and the ability to breath without inhibiting ourselves. A good example of this would be submarines.

While underwater, subs do not convert anything to oxygen. Instead they merely recycle oxygen for their time underwater, only surfacing to replace all of the old oxygen with new as necessary. This is why most submariners will talk about a feeling of an oxygen high; they have been breathing CO2, smoke, methane, etc for days on end and fresh air actually will make them light headed. This is not something that we can allow to occur on Asgardia, as it will greatly inhibit our production and living capacities.

There was an article I saw recently, I believe the Asgardia news group posted it, in which a college student managed to synthetically create leaves, some kind of material with chlorophyll transplanted into it. If we can figure out how to recreate nitrogen to balance out the oxygen we would create (as pure oxygen is bad for us as a general whole and will poison us to death), then we may have a good option to recreate a living environment and possible an atmosphere itself.

(Sorry this is a bit short. I've been trying to catch up on the news.)

Now that the Inauguration is over, we need to move forward as a community to make this dream a reality.

All of this will be sectioned in my blog as there isn't an actual Platform option or Department to choose from for this topic.

As a forward, this will be ignoring all of the other necessities required to live in space and get a station up and running. This is specifically towards my area of expertise of food, the production of and distribution of.

As common sense would dictate, space is very hard to live in because of food. Excluding air, this is probably the hardest thing to come by and keep stocked without having to rely on the ground. We cannot go into space with no plans on how to feed everyone for at least 2 years, at a minimum.

This does include meat. As humans, we require large amounts of protein in order to survive. While this is obtainable via legumes and other plant based options, we need to keep in mind that we would be on an enclosed, recycled air, piece of metal floating in space. Legumes and just vegetarian/vegan diets would directly impact the quality of air we would be breathing, which in turn would affect the overall motor function and brain functions.

Thus the plan for Asgardia needs to make sure the entire... ship for lack of a better term, is large enough to include some form of live stock; more than likely pigs. fish, and chickens. And in order for them to survive they need nutrients and plants.

Hydroponics, especially with fish, seems to be the way to go. However the issue there is the flavor can, has, and will change when growing with just water and fertilizer as compared to soil. This is going to require a much larger amount of water to start off with than what people are anticipating, and is going to cause issues with water rations. As a space station, we cannot just create water from nothing, which means we need to import water at first so that we have it. Ocean water would be the most likely candidate to start, provided we can create an enclosed environment to actually recreate an atmosphere within a colony. This, however, will require and extremely high quality desalination plant so that we can actually utilize the water.

A good section to look into are the Earthship houses. That is a very accurate way of how we would need to recycle water on Asgardia at the beginning, and overall it might need some tweaking so that we are not drinking gray water. With the amount of clean water we would need due to showers and drinking capacities, frequent transits would be required to and from Earth for water for at least the first decade in order to set up a system where we can create our own rain and ecosystem.

This topic is a bit out of my expertise as I am no architect or engineer, and I do know that the overall requirements needed to build such a tower are extremely high.

To start off, this is based on the thought that we cannot seem to perform consistent space missions due to timing, monetary reasons, material costs, fuel costs, etc. A single mission into space at any given point in time is extremely draining on our resources. My thought is why not eliminate that problem.

A tower of this size would need to be extremely massive: From ground level to sub orbital space (outside the atmosphere) is 100KM, or 62 miles. Something that tall is going to have majorly structure issues to begin with. I have ideas but it is hard to explain them without images so Ill worry about that later.

The idea of this is to limit the amount of materials needed to perform space launches from the ground, because with a tower this massive, and high, we can just launch shuttles and ships directly from the top of the tower, which saves massive amounts of fuel and money. It also makes missions to the moon and back easier as it would provide a docking location for all missions, and a simple (it really isn't simple but the idea is) elevator to bring everything necessary to the top would make the entire exploration process much easier. Plus with certain materials needed for the construction of everything, the overall resilience would be extremely high.

As for ways to power this, with something this tall, there are bound to be massive wind currents and once the cloud limit is breached, sunlight. Wind and solar power would be able to provide enough energy to let the Tower function year round without any issues.

A third factor in this as well is that the tower can also operate similar to what China is trying to do with vertical gardens. Utilizing the inside and outside of the Tower at lower levels, it can be possible to produce more than enough food to the point that we would have surplus to spare with the Earth.

Three birds with one stone: Eliminate atmospheric pollution from all of the launches and space missions, provide power and extra power to the area with natural power sources, and provide massive amounts of food across the world and space.