Just for reference on information about my background, I think I should include a copy of my resume.  I think it will help out and provide information that could be sought after for votes and elections.  So below, you will find a quick cut of my resume.

• Software Proficiencies:  Some, I know, people will not be aware of, but I can explain.
• Microsoft Office Suite Google Suite of Programs Property Plus LSI Tools Raiser's Edge MemberST AccountingST
• E-Time Wave Accounting Twitter Bold Chat Software RisoGraph Fleet Tracker In-Design CS5 Adobe Photoshop
• TrackPulse Mail Chimp Glad To Have You

Career History:

IT & Marketing Coordinator

• Supervise maintenance technicians, schedule and dispatch jobs/work orders for owner and guest
• Review owner’s statement charges
• Handle incoming guest/owner issues, closing and billing of work orders
• Maintain positive income flow for department
• Handle incoming reservation calls using Navis System & Track Pulse
• Design and publish company brochure listings, numerous web projects for design and advertising along with maintaining company website and manage company email blasts
• Process and approve contract jobs for company
• Power User on all company software and systems
• Systems administrator on company network; Help resolve network issues in office
• Collect payments on contract jobs

Mange insurance claims on guest damage via Insurance policy and security deposits

Lifeguard/Lifeguard Instructor; Business Manager, Interim

• Constantly assessing patron risks in aquatic environments and accident prevention
• Trained new lifeguards and administered month in-service trainings
• Volunteered to take on Business Director tasks as needed
• Completed management of all branch finances
• Implemented corporate policies regarding Human Resources
• Served as the branch “Power User” for company software

Outdoor Education and Camps

• Constantly assessing patron risks in aquatic environments and accident prevention.
• Trained new lifeguards and administered month in-service training.
• Taught the following courses:  Team Building, Nature Hikes, Night Hikes, Pioneering, Orienteering, Archaeology, Wildlife Ecology, Entomology, Forest Ecology, Marine Ecology.
• Certifications with YMCA of USA in the following:  Working with Children 5-8, 9-12, Teens, Camp Director, Lifeguard, Lifeguard Instructor.
• Additional Certifications: First Aid, CPR, O2, AED, Canoe & Kayak Instruction, Swimming Instruction, and Working with Children with Disabilities.

For these are additional reasons why I found myself wanting to represent and move towards Ministry of Science.

I would love to be considered to be a representative to Asgardia!  First, to be able to jump on board of such an amazing opportunity to begin with is unreal!  I've been dabbling here and there in local politics.  I feel I can represent fairly and blindly.  I'm always around ready to listen to anyone.  I would like to get pushed further along the line and get mixed in to policies with the Ministry of Science.  I'm currently studying Environmental Science w/ concentration in Natural Resources and Conservation along with a minor in Organizational Leadership.  Plus, it will force me outside my comfort zone, and I need to be outside my comfort zone.

I'll rant a little after the main point: I would like to print and distribute some brochures for Asgardia or (space colonization on it's own). I will pay to print them and hand out as many as I can, but I am no graphic artist. Can someone work with me to design one?  I have one idea; a three fold, one piece of paper pamphlet and the front says something like, "If you were to time travel two hundred years into the future and spend the afternoon with a descendant, describe the world you see around you." Then on the inside an explanation of how imagining the future is more than prophesy, It explains the direction you think humanity is heading in", blah blah, Asgardia, future, ect.. I actually already have a start to this (better worded than thank goodness). That's just one idea.

Okay, now a little rant. This website is either "barely active" or my posts are even lamer than I think. I recently saw someone post "no one's gonna read this". I was shocked to realize how right he was. I think one person has liked a post of mine and I've gotten one reply.

I really believe that if we don't gather face to face in some way, this whole project is on the fast track to "waiting for a miracle". If you're in the Hampton roads area, tell me who you are and let's figure something out. I have one person willing to meet. Distributing these brochures is a great excuse to meet up and do some fun work for the cause.

The future of Asgardia relies principally on three pillars. One is the sociological part of nation building and includes things like law and politics. The second is research and the third is education.  All three of these pillars are imperative to Asgardia’s survival, but that survival rests on one particular area of research more than anything else; cheap, safe access to space. If Asgardia becomes relegated to a piece of Earth somewhere mired in economy and politics or a trip to the space colony costs a million dollars and has a 40% chance of failure the dream will have failed. My platform is three-fold to reflect these pillars.

We need new technologies and clever applications of existing ones to fulfill this dream.  Research is where our hope lies right now. The new space race among the nations of Earth has not been well defined, except by money of course, but one technological breakthrough will decide the winner. Whoever gets the cost of a trip to orbit down to a hundred dollars per ticket with a safety rating above 90% will win the space race hands down.  What happens if another country besides Asgardia gets this technology first? It starts with an m and ends with -ilitary. I believe incredibly strongly that everyone should get to go, and that we should not bring our old nationalism and sectarianism with us.

In the sociological realm, we must clarify the representation and election process and promote in-person meetings and community gatherings.  The web site and forums need a lot of work, but the end outcome should be people gathering to facilitate a government that we all feel a part of. If Asgardia remains only online, we run the risk of not looking serious and being solely a social media platform.

Lastly, we must accept that it may be generations before the colony is established and self-sustaining. We not only need great researchers now, but we must look ahead to training the great researchers of the next generation. An education program that acts as if it already is a space colony and trains the Asgardian leaders of the future can be ours now on Earth, if we will reach out and grasp it. I propose that the first community centers for Asgardia should be education and research centers to combine the bright new ideas that come from learning with the research that is so vital to our success. We should promote our ethos of fairness and secular internationalism not only in what we teach, but in who we teach to. Asgardia is for everyone who wants a positive future for all of humanity regardless of all Earthly stereotypes, borders and foolish class systems.

That’s why I believe in Asgardia and it’s mission. It’s constitution, while not perfect, is a gleaming beacon to a humanist future that upholds all the freedoms and progressive ideals that represent the very finest of human culture. I have little political experience, but I am a PhD in physics who has been an advocate for space colonization since seeing Gerard O’Neil on tv in 1977. I have been looking for and researching the breakthrough technologies that will finally free us from rockets for fifteen years now, and I am ready to lead us towards them in the name of humanity, in the name of Earth, in the name of Asgardia.

Asgardia is an immense opportunity to take the lessons of history and modern day, and combine them into a new nation with a new mission: to bridge the humanity of now with the spacefaring humanity of the future, and beyond. As a leader, it will by my responsibility to facilitate this process, for all citizens, equally and equitably. I am particularly concerned with designing Asgardian government to resist corruption, and to prevent bureaucracy from becoming burdensome over indefinite time. As a biologist, I also seek to work with my fellow citizens to find supplements and methods to help the human body adapt to long term life in space; like resveratrol which helps resist muscle atrophy in zero g, or chlorella which assists survival of otherwise lethal levels of radiation and other stressors. There is much work to be done, but ever we are guided by the ultimate goal of building a bright future for us all, in Asgardia and for the human race as a whole.

Please either

1) All Asgardians in the Hampton Roads area email me: eigenzeit@gmail.com

or

2) if someone is setting up any local meetings in Virginia let me know. We need to organize locally not just for Asgardia but also for the sake of shared ambitions. This forum is not working very well for getting us together, so we should do it ourselves!

The world is over-mapped. That is what I said in a conversation concerning overpopulation the other day. It’s not that there’s too many of us, it’s that we’re cramped into a rigidly defined globe that effectively obviates the explorers among us.  Trapped in cultures they have no say in, the dreamers and explorers are forced to watch the well mapped globe being used as a game board by thugs. These usually peaceful people caught up in everyday struggles see internationalism and multiculturalism as obviously good things. They feel no fear or anger towards the people of other cultures whose representatives drop bombs on them and their families just to say we win. Enough is enough. Uniting these people under the banner of space colonization is the most powerful idea I have yet seen. The philosophical step in true secular and science based multiculturalism can only be surpassed in importance by the biggest evolutionary step on Earth since fish started to form legs. A nation in space is the only place for a new culture to rise. Instead of “out of the ashes” we will expand above, untethered to the layers of graves under the feet of our ancestors into an essentially endless place for expansion and innovation. In the words of one of my hero’s, Gerard O’Neil “We should ask critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing, advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprising the answer will be inescapable: the best site is ‘somewhere else entirely.’”

I admit that I am surprised to not see a push for Esperanto as the official language of Asgardia. It was created almost in anticipation of this multicutural nation. I am a native English speaker and while I appreciate being able to write in my own tongue, I want to understand what everybody is saying. Please if you haven't heard of Esperanto, check it out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto We could all learn it very quickly, and it would normalize our communication and unite us in a worthwhile shared experience.

Hello Fellow Asgardians,

My name is Andrew Trotta and I would like you to vote for me for Secretary of Commerce. Now I want to be honest with you I do not have a degree but I do have almost 15 years of experience in the retail/customer service business. I feel that being in the thick of it for so long I know what the everyday person wants and can serve you best in getting that.

I would like to submit my Candidacy for the Minister of Media Relations. I am of age, with am Associates in Video Production, and Bachelor's in Digital Cinematography. I have experience working in television, and have also worked with several people in my field. I feel I can best serve Asgardia by keeping the flow of news and media pure and also encouraging and fostering the advancement of original Asgardian programing the encourages creativity and discovery.