With all the excitement and volumes of news around Asgardia, I thought I would repost here in my parliament office, a link to my recent interview by Helena Aramendia, MP, as she provides a personal perspective of Asgardia's Members of Parliament to the followers, residents and friends of Asgardia.   Find out more about my background, my views and my work on behalf of this space nation...it's an honor and privilege to represent you!  Here's the asgardia.space link:

https://asgardia.space/en/blog/87664-an-interview-with-member-of-parliament-cheryl-gallagher/

For the future space nation of Asgardia, and even the future of the human race,  please consider all candidates carefully and don't forget to please VOTE for your choice.   Best wishes to all candidates today!

Most people that are interested in robotics are familiar with Robear, (pictured above) the patient assistance robot in current use in Japan.  Robots used to assist patients  as well as the many other uses and concepts in robotic development for various populations, highlight an obvious but sometimes underestimated societal crisis for our species.  Humans have learned how to outlive our abilities to care for ourselves as we age, and there aren't enough young people willing and able to support and care for the huge burgeoning population of elderly and disabled in the world.  Japan is at the forefront of this sort of robotic development as they rapidly progress to a potential crisis in eldercare.

I read another article in which doctors are being told that they need to improve not only diagnostic accuracy, but their empathy and bedside skills, or face being replaced by robots who emulate these important aspects of communication and care with patients.

Likewise, culturally, the nuclear family and the ties that bind families together for the benefit of caring for elderly relatives have never been weaker, as financial and practical pressures of care compound the societal changes of physical and emotional distance between family members.

We are losing our interpersonal glue in many cases, our technological development is outstretching our sociological development as a  species, which will inevitably cause ethical dilemmas that our species have only just begun to deal with. The emotional connectedness divide between newer and older generations has never been wider, and many younger people can't relate, much less care, about people and things of age and past history.  Old = Obsolete and useless, to the technologically advanced young people, like their computers and technology that obsolesce, with little to no sensitivity for people's life experience, knowledge and wisdom that applies from lifetime to lifetime and rarely becomes obsolete.

Asgardia's greatest strength and challenge is the fact that it is a planet-wide community, with the benefits and limitations of every society on Earth available for nation development and societal problem solving.  Sometimes this appears a chaotic and messy process, it's true, however, whether we are talking about human society or all of nature, any game change that shifts paradigms often behaves in this way. However, our greatest strengths can be utilized more efficiently, saving our energy and potential for higher functioning tasks, and developing strong connection and purpose as a functioning human community together, if we have flexible and functional robotic development and assistance for some important tasks going forward.  More immediately, Asgardia will need flexible and effective robotics for a myriad of other reasons and tasks, including obviously long-term construction of a space station, the running and evaluation of scientific tests, and many other uses yet to be invented and discovered. We are a growing nation, but will need to create many more (AI) hands to assist and facilitate our growth and development, and this integration of robots and humanity has enormously positive potential and unexpected outcomes yet to explore.

I'll be quite straight with you, I am and always have been a well-educated experienced career generalist with a background of success both science and the arts. It's my point of view that Asgardia needs BOTH generalists and specialists for maximum success in the newly-forming Asgardian parliament and government, and to create a dynamic and lively atmosphere for manifesting effective research and development of this new space kingdom.  It is my humble opinion that a fully functional and diverse team comprised of people experienced in all the specifics of creating a viable domain in space, along with people who are experienced in many areas less specified will provide a balanced and thoughtful approach, and grow a healthy and dynamic Asgardian society.   Running for parliament in these current by elections, and I think deeply and seriously about the vast number of tasks and duties in shaping all things Asgardia.  Also, looking forward to participating in whatever capacity presents, for Asgardia's healthy and flourishing development.  What are your thoughts on the topic of generalists and specialists and Asgardia?

#13 District Parliament Candidate, Cheryl Gallagher

Reference: http://www.theillinoismodel.com/ "Thinking and Adapting like a Tactical Philosopher"

According to this article from physicsastronomyzone.com, if the Hadron collider is successful at generating an unimaginably tiny black hole this week, (and we are not annihilated by that effort...they estimate they need to generate an almost unimaginable 9.5 to 11.9 trillion election volts of energy for full success plus they ARE generating a black hole, after all, however multiminiscule) researchers may prove both the “Gravity’s Rainbow” theory and that real parallel universes in up to 10 dimensions exist.  Wow! Is that all even possible? Mind-blowing, if true!

.... And all we Asgardians have to do is build a healthy functioning productive peace-loving space nation.  Surely with focused effort we can figure it out.

(Of course, it would also be helpful if humanity just figured out seemingly simpler problems like how to just get along with each other here on Earth, and addressed other Earthly issues, like war, pollution and mass starvation, in part so we Asgardians don’t take those awfuls with us and our species into space... but maybe it’s easier to discover 10 dimensional parallel universes by generating an actual black hole...sadly, that might end up being the faster, easier-to-achieve task. )

Article:

http://physicsastronomyzone.com/2018/04/21/researchers-large-hadron-collider-confident-make-contact-parallel-universe-days/

(PS: This is an opinion/blog piece, I'm aware that physicsastronomy.com is not the best source for research news of this calibre, if anyone has better sources for this research, please feel free to post them in the comments below, I'd love to see them!)

Photo credit: Maximilien Brice, CERN

During all the violent and "Crazy-town" energies prevalent on Earth at the time of August 2017's Total Solar Eclipse, I produced and released this short original music video using, in part, space footage from NASA and other stock sources as a peace offering to the world, in an effort to inject some positive energy to our future and as a counter to the chaos in the atmosphere that was prevailing. (Still and ever prevailing, perhaps?)  I'm not sure, but I don't think I knew much about Asgardia at the time, certainly I wrote the music itself years ago.

I offer the video here as a small incomplete snapshot of my personal character, my ideals for humanity and our current dwelling, Earth, as well as just a single sample of my work as an artist and musician, along with demonstrating a few production skills. These might be useful as we grow the concept of Asgardia, the Space Nation, into a full reality,  and in the minds and hearts of citizens of our planet and our burgeoning space nation.  I am happy to be among like minds in Asgardia, look forward to participating in its growth and government, and hope this video lifts and inspires YOUR spirit as we face the ebbs and flows of growing a new nation together.

If I can't get the video itself to upload to the Asgardia General facebook page, (the file might be too big) then the address on YouTube is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=helK2onBhRQ (My artist name is Madhavi Devi, just fyi.) Of course, my candidate information and CV is available in my profile, if you have any Asgardia MP candidate related questions, please ask!