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.

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.