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Steve Kwast

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

most people don't realize how much The 1960s and going to the moon uplifted the human condition. The technologies and the innovation that happen when people are gathered around a goal, like going to the moon in the 60s, that transforms so much of our economy, of the things that benefit people on the Earth. So going to space is not about being in space.

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

And a lot of people will criticize and say, why do you spend all this money on space? Let's just solve the problems on Earth. It may be counterintuitive, but the human mind and the human experience, if you are not moving forward and exploring and learning and discovering, you are falling backwards.

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

And a lot of people will criticize and say, why do you spend all this money on space? Let's just solve the problems on Earth. It may be counterintuitive, but the human mind and the human experience, if you are not moving forward and exploring and learning and discovering, you are falling backwards.

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

And a lot of people will criticize and say, why do you spend all this money on space? Let's just solve the problems on Earth. It may be counterintuitive, but the human mind and the human experience, if you are not moving forward and exploring and learning and discovering, you are falling backwards.

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

Or putting a finer point on it, if you're a civilization like America that is not moving forward, exploring, pushing the boundaries and the limits of discovery and pioneering, You will fall behind other countries that are doing the same. China understands this. Every historian understands this. Every psychologist understands it.

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

Or putting a finer point on it, if you're a civilization like America that is not moving forward, exploring, pushing the boundaries and the limits of discovery and pioneering, You will fall behind other countries that are doing the same. China understands this. Every historian understands this. Every psychologist understands it.

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

Or putting a finer point on it, if you're a civilization like America that is not moving forward, exploring, pushing the boundaries and the limits of discovery and pioneering, You will fall behind other countries that are doing the same. China understands this. Every historian understands this. Every psychologist understands it.

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

But it's hard if the American people do not realize that there's a purpose behind this. And the purpose is their betterment. The purpose is their freedom and their prosperity, their security, their health, their free will. So China is moving forward with exploration and with the ability to build an infrastructure to be able to bring value to their country.

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

But it's hard if the American people do not realize that there's a purpose behind this. And the purpose is their betterment. The purpose is their freedom and their prosperity, their security, their health, their free will. So China is moving forward with exploration and with the ability to build an infrastructure to be able to bring value to their country.

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

But it's hard if the American people do not realize that there's a purpose behind this. And the purpose is their betterment. The purpose is their freedom and their prosperity, their security, their health, their free will. So China is moving forward with exploration and with the ability to build an infrastructure to be able to bring value to their country.

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

Just the power in space that they're investing in, not only the solar power that we talked about, beaming it to the earth, but also nuclear power and their plans to have a nuclear power plant in space in the coming years. If they can tap into the telecommunication market globally and the energy market globally, trillions of dollars flow into the Chinese economy.

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

Just the power in space that they're investing in, not only the solar power that we talked about, beaming it to the earth, but also nuclear power and their plans to have a nuclear power plant in space in the coming years. If they can tap into the telecommunication market globally and the energy market globally, trillions of dollars flow into the Chinese economy.

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

Just the power in space that they're investing in, not only the solar power that we talked about, beaming it to the earth, but also nuclear power and their plans to have a nuclear power plant in space in the coming years. If they can tap into the telecommunication market globally and the energy market globally, trillions of dollars flow into the Chinese economy.

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

It's part of their Belt and Road Initiative. But if you read Chinese literature, doctrine, vision, and their speeches of their leadership, it is a clear statement. Space is their national vision. And they plan on bringing in the Middle Kingdom, by dominating the economy that space brings to them.

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

It's part of their Belt and Road Initiative. But if you read Chinese literature, doctrine, vision, and their speeches of their leadership, it is a clear statement. Space is their national vision. And they plan on bringing in the Middle Kingdom, by dominating the economy that space brings to them.

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

It's part of their Belt and Road Initiative. But if you read Chinese literature, doctrine, vision, and their speeches of their leadership, it is a clear statement. Space is their national vision. And they plan on bringing in the Middle Kingdom, by dominating the economy that space brings to them.

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

And you might say, well, space economy, you got a satellite, you got a cell phone that now can talk to the satellite. How can that make them the dominant economy of the world?

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

And you might say, well, space economy, you got a satellite, you got a cell phone that now can talk to the satellite. How can that make them the dominant economy of the world?

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

And you might say, well, space economy, you got a satellite, you got a cell phone that now can talk to the satellite. How can that make them the dominant economy of the world?

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

And it's because space with one build of an infrastructure can tap into every person on the planet versus a linear model where you build one power plant and now you're limited to the capital investment of power lines and then the fact that those power lines are vulnerable. There is a tremendous amount of cost in a linear system of delivery of goods and services versus a networked method.