This might be pretty early on, but it might be a good idea to assemble teams endorsed by the government to experiment with independent self sustaining systems with the implementations of technologies such as Hydroponics, Aquaponics and Aeroponics, and oxygen generation with the help of algae or phytoplankton. I am aware that the point of this is to be completely independent of earth.

It would be considerably helpful to our progress to organize some kind of government centralized, remote education program accessible by the internet or by downloadable or physically distributed offline archives, so that people can have easy access to master sciences like physics, astrophysics/orbital mechanics/propulsion, stoichiometry, electronics principles and engineering, computer science, structural engineering, differential and integral calculus, and languages.

I have a lot of input in regards to how many of these subjects could be communicated/taught.
Resources for all of this obviously already exist, easily accessible on the internet, but it should be formatted, standardized, and all in one place, formatted so that it is clear to everyone that the source is from, unique to, and for Asgardia. Much like a vault or knowledge arc like they plan on doing with biological material in attempts to preserve biological diversity.

Since this hopefully will result in colonization, it should also be a priority to compile a digital database of influential literature throughout history, for both preservation and enrichment of knowledge of culture and our species.

I would love to hear comments and opinions on how this is or could be presented and implemented in the near future for widespread use. I may expand on this much more in the future or even start my own project since I have a lot of free time.

https://asgardia.space/en/forum/forum/general-discussion-14/topic/the-path-we-should-be-on-9791/?post=42135#42135

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.)

When I 1st noticed that Asgardia was being considered as a country, I basically giggled a tiny bit and moved on to other news... I noticed it mainly due to the 'witch hunt' on the 'orange one'... I keep up on American politics for 2 reasons: a) the impact 'the Drump' is having on Canada and b) it's the biggest cartoon ever!!! A 'Looney Tunes' marathon is slightly funnier, far less dangerous, yet the politics of the current admin comes close...

Then on Monday the 25th of June, Asgardia announced itself, and I became interested in getting more information about it... As I read through the constitution, I became convinced that joining was imperative and thus became a citizen/member of the community... I will convince others to join... Once they see that we need a community of people who truly can take the tenets of the 'constitution' as real and humane, they will not see this as a joke as I did at 1st... My mistake!!! I am glad that I am a member and a part of the community...

Francis Oliver...

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.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/18/politics/trump-space-force-air-force/index.html

The link for whoever needs it. The basic gist of this though is that President Trump wants to create a military branch specifically designed for space warfare and to control space itself. Now, I am not quite clear on what exactly is needed to make this happen, or where this came from when NASA's space budget is almost 1/20th of the Military budget, but this is apparently a thing now.

From my basic understanding, this is both a good and a bad thing. The good part is there will be more research and investing in the space department, and that research should speed everything along to get into space and build colonies.

The bad thing is that the USA will be trying to exert control over space. A regimented control would not be a terrible thing in the long run, so long as it doesn't turn out to be like America turns out on the average day, but the flip side is that America will be entering another Cold War or two with other countries for invading it's territory, etc.

We will have to see how/if this pans out and keep tabs on it, as it could be a definitive threat to Asgardia and what we are trying to create.

This will receive a lot of flaming, of this I am sure. Thus this warning is here because while this is a personal feeling and should not be taken as fact or truth, it holds a lot of sentiment and logic behind it as well.

Looking through Asgardia, and looking through the blog posts and those running for Government, there is a trend. Everyone wishes to make this what we cannot down on Earth; peaceful, advanced, humane. Asgardia does not have the corrupted officials in power, we are free and have the ability to hold more sway with everything that the government does and how it is run much easier and more effectively than on Earth. This is great news, it is an amazing idea.

However, something that constantly seems to be avoided and disregarded is the base of human nature. Humans are greedy. Humans are prideful. Humans, with the right push, can also be amazing creatures of benevolence. That is our right, our power. We are, to the extent of my knowledge, the only creatures on the planet that can categorize guilt as a separate emotion from everything else and act on it. We alone have developed the concept of good and evil. We alone have developed the concept of time, and the concept of money. And that is part of the problem.

Everyone running for the government positions seems to be in a good place, they seem to have their hearts in the right place. But that begs the question: Can they be ruthless? Can they cross that grey line and manage to deal with the age old issues that we today are still dealing with?

Being considerate is not enough, having your heart in the right place is not enough. There are times where peace will not be enough to maintain anything. Can the members of the government accept that and act accordingly? Or will we see the rise of new Congress and House of Representatives that argue with each other over morals instead of solving issues? Everyone's morals are different, that is something that needs to be accepted. And sometimes the solutions to create a better environment for everyone is more difficult to decide upon because of these morals.

Can we, as Asgardians, manage to keep the morals from turning black and white decisions into grey areas that, while the results are clear cut, the decisions leading to those results end up leaving scars on a person's soul and personality? That is the question we need to ask ourselves during this time.

Can we trust our government and the ones we elect to be speedy, be accurate, and make decisions based on pure logic instead of money? Because, if we cannot, all we will do is put something similar to the governments of the world into space and then everything is for naught.

**As a reminder before commenting. This is a personal opinion that I have formed based on the logic as I see it and the profiles of candidates that I have reviewed. If you disagree, I respect your decision, but do not try and start a flame war in the comments. All it will do is prove my point further.**

Hello Asgardias,

There was a post made today in our Facebook group about using mobile apps for Asgardian internal communications.

During the comments many asked very important questions on inbuilt security and the ability to work collaboratively.

As many of us know most apps and programs already created with these more advanced feature cost to use.

I'm just wondering what do we think on the subject:

1) should we be paying to use an application that's already been created with these features already built and tested?

2) should we pay a development team to create an Asgardia exclusive application with these features?

3) do members with the skill set to develop these kind of applications want to donate time into there creation?

Okay, so i posted a blog a few days ago to Asgaurdia only. Not sharing it with fb or other social medias. Now i am trying to test the activity of the community, because it has received literally no attention in any ways. I know i am not the most popular or impressive  person, but damn no one? I found that a little hard to believe so i am asking that anyone who reads this please leave some notification that there is infact activity on the asgardia blog. Otherwise i will assume the blog is inactive/ not visible.

Hello all. This is my first "blog" to the people of Asgaurdia and I hope this message can bring fuel to the movement

My name is Eli. I am 22 years of age and I have dreamed of leaving this planet behind since I was 9. My joy when I first found Asgaurdia was profound, as I read about the project and those working behind it I felt a sense of pride in humanity that I thought i had lost during the rise of socialized media. The idea that a group of people like myself, found across the globe, were working together was so foreign that I honestly couldn't believe it.

As it stand right now, I could not be more certain that I have placed my faith appropriately.


Hmm. Now i suppose i do have some criticisms that i will keep relatively light. The Asgardian media is beginning to mimic the dis honesty of social media, Using unrealistic images or titles in order to magnifies the achievements of our projects. Also, the populace itself seems to almost expect too much, Wanting to sit by and wait for everyone else to finish the project.

I have taken some small amount of time to contemplate how to remedy some of these issues. We are so spread out, so divided that we couldn't possibly properly communicate or share resources. We must come together, on earth. Territory would be extremely difficult to claim on any land mass, of course, so the solution appears at sea. Across the internet recently i have seen the development of man made floating islands that could be maintained and populated by a working population with relative ease.

These floating islands would also be capable of supplying the populace with hydroponic foods, and automated fish farms for supple nutrient. solar, wave and wind power generation and would make a brilliant testing site for long term, moderate population in an enclosed environment. This would allow us to test structural components that would be used in orbit, as well as having a reliable method of resupplying an extraterrestrial population.