Luxembourg announces creation of space agency
The new colonial movement: Luxembourg today announced that it will officially launch its own space agency as of September 12, 2018.
Unlike US space agency Nasa, Luxembourg’s agency will not carry out research or launches. Its purpose is to accelerate collaborations between economic project leaders of the space sector, investors and other partners.
The agency will back an investment fund to invest in promising projects. Head of space affairs Marc Serres told Delano in May 2018 that financing was one of the department’s five pillars. Serres said at the time the fund would be a public private initiative with the state as anchor investor and private investors running it.
As eccentric as Luxembourg’s overall philosophy to tax dollars might be (treating it all as investment capital to invest for profit), this approach in terms of its space agency is right on the money. Not only will their investments bring profits back to their taxpayers (who are really being treated here as investors), they are using this tax money investment as a way to draw private enterprise to their country.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
The new colonial movement: Luxembourg today announced that it will officially launch its own space agency as of September 12, 2018.
Unlike US space agency Nasa, Luxembourg’s agency will not carry out research or launches. Its purpose is to accelerate collaborations between economic project leaders of the space sector, investors and other partners.
The agency will back an investment fund to invest in promising projects. Head of space affairs Marc Serres told Delano in May 2018 that financing was one of the department’s five pillars. Serres said at the time the fund would be a public private initiative with the state as anchor investor and private investors running it.
As eccentric as Luxembourg’s overall philosophy to tax dollars might be (treating it all as investment capital to invest for profit), this approach in terms of its space agency is right on the money. Not only will their investments bring profits back to their taxpayers (who are really being treated here as investors), they are using this tax money investment as a way to draw private enterprise to their country.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Luxemburg (or Letzebuerg as the farmers living there call it) is famous for its radio and the world’s largest communication satellite company. This big little country might soon own most of space. Their government makes great investments, and their tax payers don’t pay much tax. When those guys put their mind to something, it might very well succeed. It’s a bit like a family business, but not on the corrupt South American way.
When von Bismarck united most of Germany he destroyed German culture. Everyone were to speak Hannover-Deutsch and imagine that they had anything to do with Berlin, out there in the forest nowhere, named after bears for good reasons. The Germans outside of Germany are the true Germans. Like farmers in Letztebuerg who speak a language only they themselves can understand.
Here’s an interview with the Fürst von und zu Liechtenstein on direct democracy. People voting on the Ting as Germans always have, since thousands of years, without any intermediaries or “representatives”. He has as Fürst (Prince) the right to veto any decision of his people. Except the decision to abolish his right to veto. A referendum was once held on this issue, and the overwhelming majority voted to keep his veto rights. Sound voters don’t trust each other too much. Long winded argument, but small Fürstentums are like family businesses and sometimes can blossom beyond belief and space is a major opportunity now. Hans-Hermann Hoppe who is as libertarian as one can get, advocates city states governed by Princes. Government as inherited property.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_zOkljLqS4&t=2s