While a good idea on paper, a travel ban either aimed at specific groups of people or individuals is pointless. There is a way around everything and people find those ways when they really want to. The best thing we can do is be dilligent and put the proper vetting procedures and other security measures in place. So, those who immigrate to or visit Asgardia for whatever reason/s. Are cleared as not being safety risks. We could for example, create an organization that is solely responsible for the nation's safety and give them tools like, a database of all known terrorist groups and extremist individuals, proper funding, and everything else they would need to do their jobs. It is a much simpler solution and does not require any tap dancing to avoid creating unintended cultural or other issues @Vosla, I not only disagree with you, but guarantee you at some point some extremists nutjob or terrorist organization will try to attack Asgardia. Because once the nation is in place their will indeed be reasons for them doing so. For example Asgardia will have a very lucrative mining operation in place, Asgardia will also be in a position to attack a nation of Earth in relative safety, Asgardia will by nsture also be insanely remote and out of the juridstiction of Earthly law enforcement agencies, making it the best place to go for escaping those agencies @EyeR, The point of any system designed to protect a structure and the people inside of it from an explosion, is to NOT harm those same people. Any system you devise that does that is in all regards a failure even if the structure survives the blast. Remember, the goal of terrorists is to cause terror and they do so by harming people. If your system would cause people harm that resulted in them going deaf, in an attempt to save the space station that will be Asgardia from being destroyed. The terrorists would basically have succeeded in their plans. People would still have gotten hurt and fear would have been spread as a result

As Asgardia is an international effort that should be disconnected from power struggles of earthly nations, most terrorists don't have any motivation to attack Asgardia. Except for extremely lunatic fanatics that want to destroy our bid to explore space. Which implores that said fanatic is totally anti-science. Difficult to fly under radar with that preconditions. It's like a total moron tries to destroy Mensa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensa_International) from within.

When I recieved mine I wondered if this is supposed to be a government or a day care. IMHO, video conference is just a massive waste of bandwidth, but ofc this is just my opinion. Some sort of regular Q&A session might be usefull for some folks - and not just the founding father, or w/e, there could be regualr Q&A sessions for a lot of things, productively. But lets just say video conferencing was determined to be the most effective method(150k people talking at once should be interesting) and lets further assume I'd be interested in that method - Why should I require to infect my machine in order to take part? Skype is not a sane choice, in any senario. YT has some issues, notably the pricacy of it's users but at least it doesn't attempt to forward the entire desktop and filing system. Another is the lack of control over the content. Realistically, there's no reason the existing forum structure cannot encompass such a purpose. The more of our information we can keep "in house" the better. A pre-existing system would be the "easiest" to get off the floor - but care really needs to be taken in the selection of these services in order to prevent bigger issues occuring from it's use at a later date. If the "IT team" had a clue what they were doing there could of been some sort of secure comms protocol implimented by now. I personally would of selected XMPP for such a task - least of all because it can do everything you'd just suggested, is open source, secure, and trivially integrated into existing services.

That's "normal" behaviour, subscriptions are to threads, and not to individucal posts or entire subforums. If you was to subscribe to the entire subforum then there's going to be the same amount of scrolling as if you'd just clicked on the subforum, such behaviour is unlike to become actuality due to the futility. What in particular was "a bit of work" to access the forums? An "app" really wouldn't be clever, what would be "clever" is to "improve" the interface to the forum with features as you mention - such as showing topics you've subscribed to, and previous posts you'd made - although they already exist, if you'd look for them. Considering the issues evidenced with the fabrication of this service so far, would you really think it's the wisest thing to then throw into the mix another two clients with two seperate codebases, and another 50,000 potential exploits?

That's "normal" behaviour, subscriptions are to threads, and not to individucal posts or entire subforums. If you was to subscribe to the entire subforum then there's going to be the same amount of scrolling as if you'd just clicked on the subforum, such behaviour is unlike to become atuality due to the futility. What in particular was "a bit of work" to access the forums? An "app" really wouldn't be clever, what would be "clever" is to "improve" the interface to the forum with such features as you mention - such as showing topics you've subscribed to, and previous posts you'd made - although they already exist, if you'd look for them. Considering the issues evidenced with the fabrication of this service so far, would you really think it's the wisest thing to then throw into the mix another two clients with two seperate codebases, and another 50,000 potential exploits?

Stirling engines are frequently used in the dish version of Concentrated Solar Power systems. A mirrored dish similar to a very large satellite dish directs and concentrates sunlight onto a thermal receiver, which absorbs and collects the heat and using a fluid transfers it into the Stirling engine. The resulting mechanical power is then used to run a generator or alternator to produce electricity. ~Wikipedia. Space-based power systems of many types have been studied in detail for many decades, with a very large number of studies and reports available. Stirling systems are among the best for use in space.

The problem with solar panels is the frequency with which they will require to be replaced. They typically burn out within 25yrs even inside atmosphere, and outside such protections lifespan can be much shorter - the best mitigation techniques to this at best adding on another 5 yrs. How do your propose to convert "radiation" into "power"?