Steve Kwast
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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And even that is imperfect because if I am meeting with somebody and they are lying to me out of their heart, It oftentimes takes time with that person to start discovering that they are actually lying to me.
But you can do that too if you are a critical thinker and you're good at asking the right questions and that your critical thinking has a natural intellectual curiosity and suspicion that people can lie to you believing that lie because of the self-deception. Mm-hmm.
So this gets back to the other qualities of character that are essential as we are in this epic change of an industrial age to a networked age, where space is going to be the dominant environment. It will be an economy bigger than air, land, and sea combined. And we can get to why I believe that will be true in a moment, but it comes down to affordability and infrastructure and a networked effect.
But it is essential for us to force the physical contact with people of conversation. This is why your podcast is so important. Because a snippet or even a clip from the Hillsdale speech is not enough to really talk about these technologies, what they mean. Like getting anywhere on the planet in less than an hour. I want to tell you why that happens, how that happens, because it will demystify it.
It's not teleporting like you see it. Can I make a guess?
That sounds good.
And then we can talk about why the AI conversation is also going back to the root of triangulating truth and how we as human beings keep our hand on the Bible of truth, and it's about human contact. And so we can survive this dangerous time where people believe AI and AI can take us off the cliff because it can be deceived and it can be nothing more than a perpetuation of our biases.
And it's the old saying, crap in, crap out.
Well, the Earth's rotation does play a part in how much time it takes, but think of it like a fish in the water. If you're a fish swimming in the ocean, you can go a certain velocity, and that's your life. That's all you know. But if you could elevate into the air and go, you would be like, this is impossible how quickly I can move. The air is also a medium like the water. It's just less dense.
But those air molecules are real. We just can't see them. And when you get up into the edge of space, the higher you go, the fewer molecules. So imagine the globe and imagine getting into a rocket ship and going up. You don't even have to go all the way to space.
You go up a certain altitude and there are so few molecules of air that now as you turn and start going around the earth, you can move at Mach 20. At speeds that you can't even fathom if you're a fish in the water. because there are no molecules of air to create the heat or slow you down, the friction that slows you down, because the water is friction, the air is friction.
We know that as reentry and the heat shields from a spacecraft coming back into the Earth's atmosphere. And so this has been demonstrated. We did this in the early 90s as President Reagan was developing Star Wars technology. We proved this out back then, and it's one of the foundations of why Elon Musk knew that reusability was actually something you could do, and he was going to commercialize it.
we demonstrated. And so what happens is, let's go from here, where we're at in Nashville, to Singapore. It only takes about six or seven minutes to get up to the place where there's almost no molecules of air. You turn, and at Mach 20, it only takes you 10, 15 minutes to get over Singapore. And then you decelerate and come back down in seven minutes, and you're there in less than an hour.
You can do it. And so it's nothing more than just physics and the reality that we have the technology to have reusable rockets that go up, go across, and come back down.
We've done it. not with humans in the craft, but Elon Musk is gonna do this. In fact, it's actually a number of years ago, he put out a video of what his Starship will do as a transportation vehicle. And one of the fun parts of my job was connecting dots. So I had Gwen Shotwell sit down with the four star in charge of transportation command,
for America and talk about this so that now you could put 100 tons of people and equipment anywhere on the planet in less than an hour. and sustain it with reusable rockets that can go and do that all day long.
Think about what that means for the logistics of power projection in America, where if some country is in trouble or somebody is in trouble, you can get masses of amounts of stuff to them in reasonable amounts of time.
Well, it goes back to the cultural piece. People will look at something and say, sounds great, but it's not my job. Let industry build it, and then I'll figure it out. There's a lot of fear in leaders doing things the way things have always been done.
The bureaucratic risk you take is just one piece of it, where you have to actually be willing to know the law, know the regulations, and be able to operate within your authority and responsibility to innovate. But there's another thing that goes on, and I have personal experience on this, and it's the sense of belonging. I mean, we are creatures that belong to one another.
We are moral creatures that belong to God and we belong to one another. That's why we have tribes, like the tribe I grew up in, and our loyalties to our sports team, to your unit. We would live and die for our sense of belonging. And if the sense of survival were more powerful than the sense of belonging—
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