Steve Kwast
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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We don't know what they're doing because we don't have infrastructure up there to even see what's going on, but we do know they're mining helium-3.
No, we don't. Because the other side of the moon, most people may not know this, but you only see one side of the moon in the way that it rotates and orbits around the earth. It's a very interesting phenomenon in orbital mechanics. And so unless we have a constellation of satellites flying around the moon that can see and understand what's going on, we're blind.
And that's one reason they're over there. But let me give you a commercial. I'm getting real upset, Steve. I'm getting real upset. So this goes back to a strategy and why I'm in the space business. Because space is the place where if America does not change our strategy and how we're investing in space, we will become victims to others that use space as a way of dominating technology.
The energy market, but also the information market. So here's an example. About a month ago, Microsoft announced their quantum computing capability, which is just next level and awesome. But they need to cool it down to 80 millicalvin, which basically is almost down to the point where the molecules don't even move. There's really no way to cool it efficiently down to that level.
Hydrogen would only get you down to maybe one Kelvin. You need to go much lower than that. Helium-3 can do it like that.
So let's take a scenario where China now has enough helium-3 as they're mining it on the moon and bringing it back to Earth to be able to power the entire world for thousands of years, and they are the ones that can actually operationalize quantum because they can cool it down to the temperature it needs to actually operate. Now quantum sensing, quantum communication,
When you start looking at quantum computing, when you start combining those three quantum capabilities, sensing, computing, communication, and you can affordably cool it down to the levels where it can be operationalized, Now you've broken every code that ever was. I don't care how good your encryption is, they see every secret, every code, everything.
From Bitcoin to things like the techniques of blockchain. Forget it, it's all gonna change. And so there's an example of why not being in space with logistics and infrastructure to be able to move, to see, and to operate It can make you vulnerable.
Well, you know, it's been quite a while. You know, you can look back. It's been at least two years. And, you know, the problem here is the— in my view, it is that we do not have a sense of how dramatically things will change with these technologies that are in space. We build better satellites than anybody on the planet, okay? We build better fighters, tanks, ships, submarines.
We build really cool stuff, better than anybody else in the world in many cases. There are exceptions, of course. But What beats good technology is a superior strategy. So China may not, they may be a fast follower where they look a lot like our F-22 in their fighters. They look a lot like Elon Musk's rocket ships.
They may be a fast follower, but they aren't interested in making better technology. They are building a strategy of logistics and infrastructure in space. that will change the game for the energy and information market on Earth. And we are on a strategy that builds better satellites to do the same things we've done before.
And there are efforts to do these other things, but it's not fueled by the kind of money to operationalize it and really compete. This is why, you know, strategy eats technology for lunch.
Well, we know they're mining. We know they're bringing back, because we can see what they're bringing back. And this is all open source. In open source, you can see some of the things that China's doing. And so we have evidence of some of the things they're doing, but we don't know the extent. And that's part of the problem.
And this goes back to why truth and information is the most important element. Because it's back to Sun Tzu and the art of war. Know thy enemy, know thyself. And if you are deceived in your own arrogance and your own dominance of the past, that what you did in the past is sufficient to win in the future, eventually you're gonna be a dead man.
And if you do not know your enemy well enough, not just on the technical side, but the cultural side, and this is why having been raised in Africa has been very valuable for me, because being raised in a tribe with no American influence, and then coming here at the age of 10, and then being immersed in Los Angeles where my dad was the pastor of a church,
gave me a lens at this cultural misunderstanding in how we talk past each other. And it's been very valuable, like in the military. The Army talks past the Air Force, talks past the Navy, talks past Special Forces, talks past the Coast Guard. And to be able to see that and help people connect where they're actually talking to one another and listening to one another is key.
But the same is happening here with technologies and China. We, as an American society, tend to just believe our own press and think that our way of thinking is dominant. And it has worked. But if we don't understand China's cultural mindset, we could end up being a victim to it. Now, it's really important here to state two facts. One, the Chinese people are beautiful.
The Russian people are beautiful. People in every culture are just beautiful people. But whenever you are under a governance rule set that steals away Freedom, steals away freedom of choice, which is something I believe has been planted in the hearts of every human being, and the Bible tells us, and God is clear, free choice, free will. This is how we know whether you're good or bad.
If you have no freedom, I don't know if your heart is good or is bad, because you don't make any choices. You're being forced to make choices. And so when I see systems like communism, socialism, that have a historical precedence rooted in human nature of murdering its own people in order to maintain control and taking away personal freedom.
This is why we have to be so careful and why what you're doing is at the core of our survival as a nation. Because free will is predicated on understanding truth. you gotta know what's going on in your strategic environment, or again, you're not free.
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