As a Star Wars junkie and Trekkie, space has always been an area of great interest to me. When I first heard of Asgardia the first thing that came to my mind was the echo of Patrick Stewart boasting of leading a team into "the final frontier" and exploring "where no one has gone before".

We only have one Earth, and we (as a race) are destroying it. I don't just mean with pollution and war, but with politics, greed, and selfishness. Asgardia is a chance to fix these wrongs. Utopian-esque societies in the past have not been successful, and we have no reason to believe that Asgardia will be any different. But we must try.

Hope is a strong good and powerful tool, invaluable and unbeatable. We all want to take part in this venture in that hope of a better tomorrow, which is our right. To quote Alexander the Great, "Nothing is impossible to he who will try."