Steve Kwast
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426 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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So forgive me for making that final point on why we are the envy of the world, why the world is looking to us, and why they are so energized about what President Trump is saying. Even what he said in Saudi Arabia yesterday.
If you haven't seen that speech, you need to see that speech because he not only talks to the innovation, he talks to the peace that is possible if we actually start talking to one another. even with Iran.
And all these knots we are tied into geopolitically goes back to innovation, culture, technology, and America being willing to take the risk to be bold and usher in a golden age of peace instead of perpetuating decades of war and industrial age grinding to a halt of innovations that can uplift the human condition. We are all slaves to a global cabal, if you will,
of a small number of people getting rich and powerful and controlling at the cost of innovation and the enslavement of people that should be free.
Yeah, so Russia is innovating. And what they're doing is they are looking at what America has done, where we have elegant satellites and we are doing amazing things to look down on the Earth and help the operations that are going on on the Earth. And they are looking at the cost differential where we can invest so much more in our military strength than they can.
So they have developed these mesospheric supersonic weapons. So basically they can launch from space or from the land something that can maneuver at Mach speeds in the area where there's almost no air. And it is designed to be able to get through our defenses and kill anything they want to kill within minutes.
So if they see a ship they don't like there, they could kill it and it maneuvers so fast. And our systems are designed to kill other things that are more predictable, like a parabolic curve, not something that moves at those speeds and can maneuver. And so we have to counter that now, okay?
Because this is the tit for tat of competitive advantage, both in business and in warfare, where if your enemy develops something that's really cool that you can't afford, you find something that cuts its feet out from under it at a fraction of the cost. That's what they've done.
Yeah, they've done it. It's in the news. About a year ago, I think, is when they launched the first one that was a shot across the bow for America. What the hell are we doing? Wow. And again, you know, President Trump knows these things and he you know, so thank God he is back in because again in in the last administration these innovations were in idle and Now they're an afterburner
And this is our superpower. He won't talk about it, but God help the country that puts him to the test because you even listened to a speech yesterday. And those of us that know are so grateful that our country has a defender that's not afraid to be strong.
Well, we will be constructing satellites in space. Uh, right now we are at the stage where we have the modular elements that are qualified. We, uh, you know, we, we have, um, uh, missions that have gone to the international space station are going to the international space station. We have equipment that has gone to the moon a couple of months ago, uh, supercomputer or computational capability.
Yeah.
Yeah, but again, this goes back to a man I think you ought to have on this show. His name is Dennis Wingo, and he is one of these rare engineers that is not only brilliant in his own right as an engineer, but he can see, most engineers are fairly siloed, and they are the PhD world expert at a deep silo of knowledge.
his unique gift is to be able to be deep on multiple silos and then see across, a holistic, systemic look. So when he presents a design for a solution, he is solving problems across engineering disciplines that any other engineer in those disciplines do not see, the integration and the problems that will emerge in the future.
And so one of his reputations for all of us in the military that were watching, and one of my jobs in the military was called the Director of Requirements. And my job was essentially for all combat air forces to include communication at the time.
My job was to look at the engineering benches of America and all these innovative technologies that are percolating in little benches and corners of engineering brilliance and bring them to the warfighter as fast as possible. This is where I discovered Dennis Wingo. And his reputation is everything he builds in space works.
So for example, that computer that he built for the moon that is on the south pole of the moon right now, it was only designed, the specs that they wanted were designed to, you know, like you know, 20 degrees Celsius positive minus 20 degrees Celsius. Even though the environment of the moon is, you know, if you're facing the sun, it's about 450 degrees Celsius.
And if you're facing deep space on the backside of that, if you turn around, you're experiencing negative 450 degrees Fahrenheit. So the thermal environment of space is so aggressive. And then there's the radiation environment where the radiation will just obliterate a computer. if it's not designed to withstand that kind of environment.
And there was a problem where the lunar lander that was designed by another company fell over on its side, and you can read about it if you want, but our computers still worked even without the heater that keeps it warm in the cold side and the shielding that keeps it cool in the hot side. It demonstrated that this guy knows how to build things that work in space. That's his reputation.
And you ought to have him on this show because he will give you, because he's not just a technologist, he's also a historian. And he understands the geopolitics of technology and how technology changes fate. And he knows his history. His great-grandfather, and again, you'll have to ask him for the perfect story, but was in the railroads.
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