Choosing Between Colonisation or Militarisation!!!!
A nation in space, or insane? A space-bound utopia or bizarre ego trip from a millionaire scientist? Russ Swan fails to get to the bottom of Asgardia…........ Great news for those exercised by the announcement of the ‘space nation’, Asgardia, first discussed in Lab News back in 2016 . Then, many confessed that they didn’t quite know what to make of this eccentric project: a new country in space, with a constitution to hold knowledge, intelligence, and science at its core. Asgardia is the brainchild of billionaire scientist (those are two words rarely seen next to each other) Igor Ashurbeyli. His vision is for a fully-fledged independent nation in orbit, extending to settlements on the moon and vast Golgafrincham space arks traversing the solar system. It would ensure the peaceful use of space, protect Earth from ‘space hazards’, and create a demilitarised scientific knowledge base. Only days before the 25 June inauguration of Ashurbeyli as the leader of the n...