Teh One Who Knocks
10-14-2016, 12:25 PM
By Marvin Harris - CBS 5 Arizona
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(RNN) - The first planned outer space nation, Asgardia, is accepting applications for citizenship.
After the first 100,000 applicants, Asgardia will stop taking applications until the nation launches its first satellite, promoters said. The launch is set for fall 2017, 60 years after the first satellite launch, the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 on Oct. 4, 1957.
Asgardia's details were announced Wednesday at a news conference in Paris by Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli, the founder of the Aerospace International Research Center (AIRC) in Vienna. He is also chairman of UNESCO's Science of Space committee.
He said he expected the media to describe him as "some crazy Russian rocket scientist" who "talked utter nonsense."
"Asgardia is a fully fledged independent nation, and a future member of the United Nations, with all the attributes this status entails," Tech Times reported Ashurbeyli as saying.
He said any person on Earth over 18 can seek citizenship at their site, asgardia.space/citizenship.
A skeptic who is a professor of space law at the University of Nebraska told Popular Science that Ashurbeyli's plans are something no one will have to worry about for a while. The group behind Asgardia, Frans von der Dunk said, does not appear to have a clear plan of action, the technology or sufficient funding for a space settlement.
"This may be the germ that 50 years from now will create a true nation in outer space," von der Dunk said, "but I don't see that happening over night, or even in the next 10 or 20 years."
The name of the new space nation, Asgardia, comes from Norse mythology's city in the sky, Asgard.
The scientist said he developed his plan after consulting with other scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and legal experts.
He said the space nation, which is to be independent of all nations on Earth, will strive to ensure the peaceful use of space. Other goals are to protect Earth from space threats - such as sun storms, flares, manmade orbital debris and asteroids and comets - and to create a demilitarized space where knowledge of space can be shared.
An Asgardia contest is inviting people to create the nation's flag, anthem and insignia. Entries are to be submitted before Jan. 20, 2017.
Read more about it here. (https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://raycomgroup.images.worldnow.com/library/15adaac0-bedf-42c7-9281-08a9ba03d577.pdf)
http://i.imgur.com/DLuYGHw.jpg
(RNN) - The first planned outer space nation, Asgardia, is accepting applications for citizenship.
After the first 100,000 applicants, Asgardia will stop taking applications until the nation launches its first satellite, promoters said. The launch is set for fall 2017, 60 years after the first satellite launch, the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 on Oct. 4, 1957.
Asgardia's details were announced Wednesday at a news conference in Paris by Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli, the founder of the Aerospace International Research Center (AIRC) in Vienna. He is also chairman of UNESCO's Science of Space committee.
He said he expected the media to describe him as "some crazy Russian rocket scientist" who "talked utter nonsense."
"Asgardia is a fully fledged independent nation, and a future member of the United Nations, with all the attributes this status entails," Tech Times reported Ashurbeyli as saying.
He said any person on Earth over 18 can seek citizenship at their site, asgardia.space/citizenship.
A skeptic who is a professor of space law at the University of Nebraska told Popular Science that Ashurbeyli's plans are something no one will have to worry about for a while. The group behind Asgardia, Frans von der Dunk said, does not appear to have a clear plan of action, the technology or sufficient funding for a space settlement.
"This may be the germ that 50 years from now will create a true nation in outer space," von der Dunk said, "but I don't see that happening over night, or even in the next 10 or 20 years."
The name of the new space nation, Asgardia, comes from Norse mythology's city in the sky, Asgard.
The scientist said he developed his plan after consulting with other scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and legal experts.
He said the space nation, which is to be independent of all nations on Earth, will strive to ensure the peaceful use of space. Other goals are to protect Earth from space threats - such as sun storms, flares, manmade orbital debris and asteroids and comets - and to create a demilitarized space where knowledge of space can be shared.
An Asgardia contest is inviting people to create the nation's flag, anthem and insignia. Entries are to be submitted before Jan. 20, 2017.
Read more about it here. (https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://raycomgroup.images.worldnow.com/library/15adaac0-bedf-42c7-9281-08a9ba03d577.pdf)