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Steve Kwast

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1278 total appearances

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast โ€“ How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

Well, you're doing the same thing, but it goes back to there's nothing new under the sun and everything is rooted in human nature. So if you understand human nature and culture and history and the lessons that have happened, as long as the history is true, that's another thing you have to work for, you can navigate a better future.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast โ€“ How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

Well, you're doing the same thing, but it goes back to there's nothing new under the sun and everything is rooted in human nature. So if you understand human nature and culture and history and the lessons that have happened, as long as the history is true, that's another thing you have to work for, you can navigate a better future.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast โ€“ How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

But it requires this intellectual curiosity and aggressive learning where... you actually put in the time to study your history. And you triangulate truth with that too. You read history books written from different people in different perches around the world, different cultures around the world, to try to get after the bias that is written by the victors.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast โ€“ How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

But it requires this intellectual curiosity and aggressive learning where... you actually put in the time to study your history. And you triangulate truth with that too. You read history books written from different people in different perches around the world, different cultures around the world, to try to get after the bias that is written by the victors.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast โ€“ How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

But it requires this intellectual curiosity and aggressive learning where... you actually put in the time to study your history. And you triangulate truth with that too. You read history books written from different people in different perches around the world, different cultures around the world, to try to get after the bias that is written by the victors.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast โ€“ How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

Because the victors always write it making themselves look like they are the heroes of the world, when in reality they may not have been totally. And you have to be honest with yourself about not wanting to be the hero of the story. Truth is the hero of the story.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast โ€“ How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

Because the victors always write it making themselves look like they are the heroes of the world, when in reality they may not have been totally. And you have to be honest with yourself about not wanting to be the hero of the story. Truth is the hero of the story.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast โ€“ How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

Because the victors always write it making themselves look like they are the heroes of the world, when in reality they may not have been totally. And you have to be honest with yourself about not wanting to be the hero of the story. Truth is the hero of the story.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast โ€“ How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

Well, the first thing is to โ€“ be humble enough to anchor yourself in the fact that the only person that matters is God. And if you don't have that, if you aren't grounded in the fact that you are moral, ethical, legal, honest, and God is your judge, And you can't lie to God. You can't deceive God.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast โ€“ How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

Well, the first thing is to โ€“ be humble enough to anchor yourself in the fact that the only person that matters is God. And if you don't have that, if you aren't grounded in the fact that you are moral, ethical, legal, honest, and God is your judge, And you can't lie to God. You can't deceive God.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast โ€“ How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

Well, the first thing is to โ€“ be humble enough to anchor yourself in the fact that the only person that matters is God. And if you don't have that, if you aren't grounded in the fact that you are moral, ethical, legal, honest, and God is your judge, And you can't lie to God. You can't deceive God.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast โ€“ How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

And then you surround yourself with people that keep you honest and keep you humble, where it's not about you. It's about God's will. It's about glorifying God, ultimately. That's that moral center where our worldview is that there is a God and that God loves us. And he asks us to love one another as much as he loves us. So if you have that as a grounding, you can weather all of this stuff.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast โ€“ How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

And then you surround yourself with people that keep you honest and keep you humble, where it's not about you. It's about God's will. It's about glorifying God, ultimately. That's that moral center where our worldview is that there is a God and that God loves us. And he asks us to love one another as much as he loves us. So if you have that as a grounding, you can weather all of this stuff.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast โ€“ How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

And then you surround yourself with people that keep you honest and keep you humble, where it's not about you. It's about God's will. It's about glorifying God, ultimately. That's that moral center where our worldview is that there is a God and that God loves us. And he asks us to love one another as much as he loves us. So if you have that as a grounding, you can weather all of this stuff.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast โ€“ How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

When I was at the senior level of command and supporting the Space Force as an astronautical engineer and through my whole life watching this technology emerge and able to see the consequences of what this was gonna mean for the art of peace, to have strength, to prevail for American interests as the economy of space starts emerging,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast โ€“ How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

When I was at the senior level of command and supporting the Space Force as an astronautical engineer and through my whole life watching this technology emerge and able to see the consequences of what this was gonna mean for the art of peace, to have strength, to prevail for American interests as the economy of space starts emerging,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast โ€“ How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

When I was at the senior level of command and supporting the Space Force as an astronautical engineer and through my whole life watching this technology emerge and able to see the consequences of what this was gonna mean for the art of peace, to have strength, to prevail for American interests as the economy of space starts emerging,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast โ€“ How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

and then being considered a traitor because what is a fighter pilot doing talking about space? And the Air Force did not, just like the Army did not want an independent Air Force for the same reasons why the Air Force did not want a Space Force. And so I was not welcome. And that's okay. That is the cost of innovation. And if you're not grounded in God, Look at Job in the Bible.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast โ€“ How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

and then being considered a traitor because what is a fighter pilot doing talking about space? And the Air Force did not, just like the Army did not want an independent Air Force for the same reasons why the Air Force did not want a Space Force. And so I was not welcome. And that's okay. That is the cost of innovation. And if you're not grounded in God, Look at Job in the Bible.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#202 Steve Kwast โ€“ How China is Mining the Moon and Weaponizing Space

and then being considered a traitor because what is a fighter pilot doing talking about space? And the Air Force did not, just like the Army did not want an independent Air Force for the same reasons why the Air Force did not want a Space Force. And so I was not welcome. And that's okay. That is the cost of innovation. And if you're not grounded in God, Look at Job in the Bible.