Voices of Asgardia, Asgardia's premiere radio station is getting a makeover.

For the first time in months, www.voicesofasgardia.com is being revived thanks in part to efforts by VOA's Staff who have been working quietly behind the scenes while station founder Ryan Zohar was on furlough following a cross-country household move to Arkansas, United States.

Things to expect with the makeover:
>> New website design and layout. Graphics Coordinator Eric Viana, who is also the acting webmaster, is currently working with an Asgardian volunteer on migrating the site and radio station to a private server in Germany. Eric will be implementing a new site design in the near future, geared towards suggestions from  fans and contributors.
>>News updates. Contributors Marco Nowak and Lukas Alexander Jones will be keeping the news up to date, starting with weekly updates.

>>New Programming. Founder Ryan Zohar is currently planning a weekly talkshow, adding to the lineup which already includes a weekly show from  Asgardian musician Ejay Ivan Lac. Lukas Jones is also planning an electronic music show, and more DJs are petitioning for positions.

>>Contributions from  NGO and Civic Asgardia. Community Lead Rebekah Berg will be contributing to VOA through updates made available on Asgardia.Space, and you can expect to hear from  NGO CEO Lena De Winne in the near future.

Stay tuned to www.voicesofasgardia.com for more updates.

We are always at the beginning. Every time I look closer at a wonderful thing being explored right now, I see just a hint of the true potential of the thing. No matter how far we think we’ve come, since the ancient Greeks, the age of enlightenment, the industrial revolution, since the dawn of the rocket age and the computer age, all of that put together just paints a hazy impressionist picture of the potential outcome. Everywhere we look there is technology that, while often not as new as we think, is about to offer rapid change to our world. The roots of things like AI and 3d printing are older than you think, but what we can do with them is just at the very start of a explosion of application that hasn’t been seen since the steam engine and widespread electricity. At the same time, these technological changes will alter our society and culture in ways that we’ve never seen. None of the tech booms of the past will compare to what could be getting underway right now.

We are always at the beginning. People still do awful things to each other. I just read a story about a group of people kidnapping and beating a mentally disabled young man. They will be charged with a hate crime, in part because of the racial epithets they used at they live streamed the event on Facebook. To me, things like this, the war in Syria, all of it, sits like a rock in my gut. This repeated cycle of hate a violence, mistrust and abuse is a failure of civilization. It’s a failure of us being better than our gut-level instinct and emotional reactions might want us to be. If we can’t avoid giving in to violent reactions and if we, as a civilization, can’t learn to avoid the inequality, hopelessness, and rage that leads people to act out or allows them to be mislead, we will fail.

I do not see anywhere there is a prime directive for encounters with other species in the eventuality. if someone has seen a portion in the constitution please let me know where. non resource use of their environments should be a concern. also, what step are we allowed contact. these are important ratifications in case we encounter life forms in our own solar system, from amebias to higher life forms. discussion anyone?

The old saying of, "land of opportunity" well what about the future. See from what mother earth shows us all is that there is a limited amount of minerals that can be taken.

There for I say, look to the universe for space of opportunities.

Hello! I am only 17 years old and am unsure if I'm allowed to be a citizen. I would hope to be able to begin to shape this concept into a reality and I am happy to hear that the first satellite launch is eminent. I am currently hoping to pursue a career in politics, environment, science, or something space related and therefor am happy to be here. I would write more but have final exams. Let's make this happen!