Saludos Cordiales Compañeros Asgardianos,

Mi nombre es Arnulfo Alegria, candidato al Parlamento por el Distrito # 4: Español y estoy aquí para presentarles muy respetuosamente mi plataforma de acción y propuestas.

Soy graduado de Ingeniera en Gestión Empresarial y tengo 29 años, he trabajo en mi país en diversas empresas del sector logístico y comercial, siendo este ultimo en el que me desempeño actualmente, he sido voluntario para organizaciones como Timmy Global Health, el propio gobierno de mi país y últimamente en Asgardia como moderador; soy deportista de Tiro con Arco para mi provincia y he representado a mi ciudad en varios campeonatos nacionales.

Como sabrán Asgardia es una nación de soñadores, nos hemos propuesto como crear hábitats en el espacio, y asi darle a la humanidad, la oportunidad de prosperar en el espacio, gracias a ello, cientos de personas se han inscrito para ser ciudadanos de nuestra nación, sin saber aun como, ni cuando este sueño se hará realidad, por fortuna tenemos a extraordinarias personas trabajando día a día para que Asgardia como tal se consolide, a los cuales extiendo mi mas sincera felicitación e incondicional apoyo.

Mi gobierno estará fundado sobre tres ejes: ''Desarrollo de Hábitat, Seguridad y Movilidad Humana, Educación y Ciencia''; a continuación les daré una breve descripción de los tres.

Desarrollo de Hábitat: Asgardia ya no es un solo un sueño, es una realidad, el pasado 12 de Noviembre se lanzo en primer satélite de nuestra nación Asgardia-1, logrando un hito en la comunidad, asi como ustedes, yo estoy preocupado por el desarrollo de hábitat en si, donde viviremos?, somos una nación espacial, pero parece que no esta decidido en donde Habitaran los futuros Asgardianos, pues es ahí donde se enfocara este eje, desde los primeros días de función como parlamentario, buscare a científicos e ingerieros, profesionales que puedan contribuir al Diseño, Planeacion y Ejecución de Hábitat Asgardia, un lugar donde los Asgardianos podamos vivir en paz contribuir con la humanidad.

Seguridad y Movilidad Humana: todos los seres humanos nacemos con dos derechos básicos, el derecho a la vida y el derecho a la propiedad privada, mi compromiso es trabajar para que esos dos derechos nunca sean violados y para que todos los Ciudadanos de Asgardia sean reconocidos en la Tierra.

Educación y Ciencia: este derecho fundamental sera promovido y fortalecido; nuestra misión sera siempre proteger a la Tierra, y muchas veces la ignorancia hace que hagamos todo lo contrario, Asgardia al ser una nación de Ciencia, promoverá el conocimiento y la investigación, asegurando de esta forma que todos los Asgardianos cuenten con procesos formativos en diferentes áreas de interés, y fortalecer asi nuestra comunidad.

Queridos Asgardianos para finalizar, les digo que vocación y convicción no hacen falta, pero debemos siempre entrenarla y ponerla en practica en cada paso que damos, somos responsables del futuro de la humanidad, sobre nuestros hombros recae la responsabilidad de siempre ir hacia adelante, y a la vez de nunca olvidar lo que nos hace Humanos, ''nuestra cuna fue la tierra, pero nuestro destino son las estrellas'', con tu voto, haremos posible todo esto y más, abajo encontraran un link en el que pueden votar por mi plataforma de trabajo.

Una Humanidad Una Unidad.

Atentamente.

Arnulfo N. Alegria G.

https://asgardia.space/en/elections/candidates/Spanish/19888/#28894

The leaders of the future must understand one thing above the others, and is that they represent the citizens, they are the means by which the voice of the smallest is channeled; according to the Guatemalan political scientist Gloria Alvarez, there are several elements that a nation must have to be recognized, the first is to recognize the individual as the smallest minority, and that in turn guarantees two basic rights, the right to life and the right to private property.

Once these rights are guaranteed, a nation can be recognized as such, but what form should a nation have to be successful ?, definitively a Republic, since the Republic is the only one that guarantees the correct balance between the functions of the state, executive , legislative and judicial; in fact in a Republic the executive is the last of the powers.

If we see the definition of Republic in Wikipedia, it says that in a broad sense, it is a political system that is based principally and totally on the rule of law (constitution) and equality before the law (like other state-based regimes). of right). It has several definitions, such as the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1922, which also emphasize the importance of autonomy and of Law (including Human Rights) as fundamental parts for a republic, not to be confused republic with democracy (from Greek δημοκρατία, dimokratía, 'power of the people', and this of δñμος, we say, 'people' and of κράτος, krátos, 'power'), because they allude to different principles; the republic is the government of the law while democracy means the government of the people.

It is the republic as we see, the one that gives the balance between law and democracy, in a pure and hard democracy, A Head of Nation could say, '' this person does not like me, let's vote to kill her/him '', and if the half plus one wins , the person dies, in a Republic, the constitution avoids that, because as I mentioned before, the citizen is the smallest minority.

One Humanity One Unity.

Font: image taken from the movie Star Trek new begining.

Best regards,

My name is Arnulfo Alegria and I am Ecuadorian, like many of the citizens of Asgardia, my biggest concern is knowing how and when Asgardia will be a real place, and how people who work nowadays, make this possible, although there is a lot effort on the part of the volunteers in constructing a stable virtual platform first, what the citizens need is to see the advances of infrastructure, to put it simple, plans and ideas to follow.

A few days ago Asgardia stopped being an idea to be real, with the launch of the first satellite of our nation Asgardia-1, in which hundreds of citizens uploaded information, such as the current constitution, coat of arms and flag, thanks to the effort of our Head of Nation Mr. Ashurbeyli and the citizens of Asgardia, we are no longer just an idea, and that is precisely what I will do, that Asgardia will advance to the next step and be a physical and concrete place, there is much to do, much to plan, but with the help from you citizen of Asgardia, it could be achieved.

We represent the desires of Humanity and our work is to achieve what nobody has until today, and it is to take the human being to space permanently, YES WE CAN, YES WE WILL ACHIEVE IT.

One Unity, One Humanity.

When we speak of colonies that thrive in space, apart from the indispensable factors for life, we must take into account how it must thrive and grow, after all, it is not easy to obtain space recruits for Asgardia, and those in the land, belong to THE EARTH and their governments.

Fortunately, space is rich in resources that can be exploited, in many different ways, collecting them is complicated, but it will not be difficult for Asgardian engineers, bellow I will list the resources that can be obtained from space and how they can help Asgardia to grow.

Mining Asteroids.

We have seen how lately agencies such as NASA or EESA have successfully landed probes on asteroids, in a future with technology developing rapidly, space freighters can visit asteroids to extract resources like nickel, platinum, palladium, osmium and rhodium and thus trade with Earth. Planetary Resources estimates that the platinum alone from a 30m asteroid could be worth up to $50 billion, while DSI hit the headlines early in 2013 with its assertion that the 45m-wide ‘near-miss’ asteroid, 2012DA14, might be worth $195 billion in metals and recoverable water.

Space Tours.

Although space tourism already exists in our day, it is privately expensive, in the near future, this will no longer necessarily be so, there are companies that already work on a solution for this, making the cost of one of these tours less than $ 200,000, although it is still very expensive for most people, remember that this tours cost about $ 20 million.

Space Technologies
Asgardia's citizen engineers will be the backbone of space technology, in the way that there are leading countries in a certain type of technology, nothing prevents the future inhabitants of the space colony Asgardia from leading in these fields, who knows and they invent the technology to travel faster than light...

As we can see, there is no impediment for the spatial colonies can not grow in all areas, it only takes imagination and the support of the government of Asgardia, something that is assured by the constitution.

References:

www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2015/05/the-business-of-outer-space

The men go to the moon, then we explore mars, there is no boundaries of what a strong will can do, there is limits for dreams? I don't think so, If we come this far, I'm sure we can go further and beyond, but what is the history behind the idea of colonization of space, and of course what is the idea behind projects like Asgardia, what drive men to break schemes.

The history of space coloization dates back to mithology and and legends, but the actual ideas come in the form of novels from autors like Jules Verne, Kurd Lasswitz or Edward Everett who suggested the idea of space stations out of earth, in 1903 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky expanded the concept of the manned space station to include rotation for artificial gravity, who use solar energy, and even a space "greenhouse" with a closed ecological system; in 1961 Arthur C. Clarke published a novel suggesting  placing a large station at the Lagrangian libration points where it would maintain a fixed position relative to the Earth and the Moon.

So as we can see the concept of sapce colonies is not new and it was the ambition of men since ancient times, now we can finally see this ambition fulfilled, it is the right time to do it, and Asgardia is the right project, with the conviction that we are the ones indicated to carry it out I do not doubt that the dream of those who preceded us, are indeed in good hands.

Refereces:

• Verne, J.: Off on a Comet, Paris,1878.
• Tsiolkovsky, K. E.: Dreams of Earth and Heaven, Nature and Man, Moscow, 1895.
• Clarke, A. C.: Islands in the Sky, John C. Winston, 1952.
• Clarke, A. C.: A Fall of Moondust, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1961.

When we speak of space colonies, we must take into account that space was not made for humans, we would die instantly; therefore a series of factors must be considered so that the human being can not only survive in space, but can live and progress.

So enumerating what is necessary as organisms that we must have to survive; first oxygen, second heat, third gravity and last food, basically without these elements life could not exist as such, although there may be some organism that can survive with out some of these elements, we are not that case; so the engineers of the future must find a solution in the form of habitat so that human being can survive in a place without these conditions.

Many are the ideas and concepts for a habitat that meets these requirements, and one of the most famous is the concept of colony in the form of torous; but what is a torus?, is a solid surface formed by rotating a closed curve, especially a circle, around a line that lies in the same plane but does not intersect it (e.g., like a ring-shaped donut); then the idea is to create a habitat in the form of torous where can sustain the basic components for the human being to live in space.

This idea was considered in 1975 for a summer research project precisely by Stanford University and NASA, and in summary what the study suggests is that this is the most suitable type of colonies for the life of the human being in space, and that the impediments for the creation of projects like these are not economic, they are political and social.

Finally as citizens of Asgardia we are obliged to ensure the effective fulfillment of this project, because of it depends the expasion of the human being in space.

References: The torus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus , National Space Society http://www.nss.org/settlement/space/graphics/abalakin1000.jpg

We all once saw the film Elysium directed by Neill Blomkamp, where in a near future humanity lives on an increasingly polluted, sick and overpopulated planet, with the exception of Elysium, a toroidal world where only the rich and wealthy can live in peace and ''never die''; Scenarios like this make us consider what is the future of our civilization, What as human beings, do to prevent that end.

The concept of space colonies is not new, has been a frequent topic for many writers, worlds where humanity can expand in space, in others, these citizens are seeking to destroy terrestrial civilization, For our luck in the last case, the constitution of Asgardia clearly stable cooperation with the terrestrial civilization; but what we can agree on, is that the extraterrestrial colonies will proliferate.

Then the question would not be if it is possible, the correct question is ¿When?, well the answer is simple, when we human beings unite and began to take seriously the warnings of scientists like Stephen Hawkings; is not a question of pride or economic capability, it is a question of how much the human being is able to leave the differences aside and work for the common good, for the present.

Making it clear that we can carry out projects like this, we as citizens of Asgardia, citizens of the future, are in us to begin the awareness of what our project can do for the good of humanity.