Now, you can be citizen of first space nation
Scientists
Launch Asgardia To Protect Earth, Foster Peace And Open Up Cosmos For Commerce
Scientists
have launched the first new space nation.
And
anyone can become a citizen of it.
The new
space nation of Asgardia hopes to save the human race twice over. First, it
will look to protect it from warfare in space; and second it will try and keep
humanity safe from the dangers coming from outside of atmosphere, protecting us
from threats like space debris and asteroid collisions.
Those
behind Asgardia hope that creating the country is the first step of a new era
in the space age. And they intend to start that by sending rockets into the sky
. The country will send its first satellite into space in 2017. From there,
Agardia hopes to “open up access to space for commerce, science and peoples of
all countries on earth“. The scientists behind the plan launched it in Paris
this week, and named it after the city of skies that was ruled by Odin from
Valhalla in Norse mythology .
It is
being led by Igor Ashurbeyli, who leads the Aerospace International Research
Center in Vienna and is chairman of Unesco's science of space committee. But
Asgardia was created in consultation with “globally renowned scientists,
engineers, entrepreneurs and legal experts“, according to those behind it.
The
country is hoping to become a fully recognised country, said Ashburbeyli. And
when it does so it will be able to promote values central to scientists, he
claimed.
“Asgardia
is a fully-fledged and independent nation, and a future member of the United
Nations -with all the attribu tes this status entails,“ he said in a statement.
“The essence of Asgardia is `Peace in Space', and the prevention of Earth's
conflicts being transferred into space. “Asgardia is also unique from a
philosophical aspect --to serve entire humanity and each and everyone,
regardless of his or her personal welfare and the prosperity of the country
where they happened to be born.“
The
country will allow for anyone to apply for citizenship.
“Any
human living on Earth can become a citizen of Asgardia,“ the site's citizenship
page reads. It includes a link to a form to join the country, which is done
just by handing over your first name, last name, email and country .
But the
new project also hopes that it can completely change the idea of the nation
state. It hopes to create a new framework for how space activities are
regulated and owned, changing who's responsible for what goes on there and how
it can be governed.
But the
project hopes to keep people on Earth more safe, too. One of the project's
first initiatives will be to create a protective shield that keeps human kind
from “cosmic manmade and natural threats to life on earth such as space debris,
coronal mass ejections and asteroid collisions“.
Scientists
have warned repeatedly that those threats are being underestimated.Scientists
have warned that there are thousands of pieces of debris that could crash down
to Earth, and that coronal mass ejections coming from the Sun could potentially
wipe out all communications on Earth.
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