Tim Ventura Interviews

We’re joined by Dr. Namrata Goswami, an independent scholar on International Relations, subject matter expert with the Future’s Laboratory, and co-author of the new book “Scramble for the Skies”.

The Second Space Race has started with a great powers competition for strategic space resources. Namrata joins us today to discuss the economic ambitions of the Second Space Race and the international competitors striving to dominate the final frontier.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Dr. Namrata Goswami is an independent strategic analyst, author and consultant on Great Power Politics, Space Policy, Alternate Futures, and Frameworks of Conflict Negotiation and Resolution. After earning a Ph.D. in international relations, she served for nearly a decade as Research Fellow at India’s Ministry of Defense (MOD) sponsored think tank, the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, working on ethnic conflicts in India’s Northeast, counter-terrorism and China-India border conflict. Her research and expertise generated opportunities for collaborations abroad, and she accepted visiting fellowships at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway; the La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia; and the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

In 2012, she was selected to serve as a Jennings-Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Washington D.C. where she studied India-China border issues, and was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Fellowship that same year. Shortly after establishing her own strategy and policy consultancy in 2016 after relocating to the U.S., she won the prestigious MINERVA grant awarded by the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense (OSD) to study great power competition in the grey zone of outer space. In 2017, she was awarded a contract with Joint Special Forces University (JSOU) to write a monograph on ISIS in Asia, in which one of her field of study was Indonesia.

With expertise in international relations, ethnic conflicts, counter insurgency, wargaming, scenario building, and conflict resolution, she has been asked to consult for audiences across the globe, from academia to policy-makers. She was the first representative from South Asia chosen to participate in the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies NATO Partnership for Peace Consortium (PfPC) ‘Emerging Security Challenges Working Group.’ She also received the Executive Leadership Certificate sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, National Defense University (NDU), and the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS). Currently, she is working on a book project on “Ethnic Conflicts” with Oxford University Press, and another one on ‘Great Power Ambitions in Outer-Space” to be published by Lexington Press, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield.

We’re joined by Col. Eric J. Felt, Commander of the Phillips Research Site and Director of the AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate, who leads a team of over 1,000 personnel comprising the nation’s center of excellence for military space technology research, development, integration, and demonstration.

Learn how the prestigious Air Force Research Lab is going above & beyond to improve resiliency, increase domain awareness, and develop next-generation technologies to maintain our nation’s space capabilities and deter conflict.

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Colonel Eric Felt is the Commander of the Phillips Research Site and Director of the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. He leads a team of 1,080 military, civilian and on-site contractors who comprise the nation’s center of excellence for military space science and technology, research and development, as well as advanced technologies integration and demonstration. His organization focuses on enduring Air Force space missions: communications; position navigation and timing, missile warning, space situational awareness, and defensive counter space.

Colonel Felt received his commission in 1991 from Duke University Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps. He entered active duty in 1996 after completing a master’s in science and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering. He is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and has served as a developmental engineer and program manager in lab, test, program office, and staff assignments. Prior to his current position, Colonel Felt served as the Senior Materiel Leader, Joint Mission Division, Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Systems Directorate, Hill Air Force Base, Utah.

We’re joined by Lieutenant General Steven Kwast (Ret.) is a 33 year veteran of the US Air Force who recently retired from a prestigious role as commander of the Air Education and Training Command.

He joins us today to discuss the innovation & economic opportunities driving the emerging space economy and the threats we must avoid to ensure space remains a sanctuary of freedom & hope for all mankind.

Space commerce will create multi-trillion-dollar markets in energy, information, manufacturing, and transportation — but may also present the greatest risk that America will ever face.

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Lieutenant General Steven Kwast (Ret.) served in the US Air Force as the commander of the Air Education and Training Command, responsible for training over 293,000 students per year.

Steven is a decorated veteran with over 650 combat flight hours, who retired in 2019 after a 33-year career in the Air Force with over 30 awards and decorations, including the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, and the Bronze Star.

He joins us today to discuss the military and economic trends driving the creation of the US Space Force in late 2019.

We’re joined by Brigadier General Steven Butow to discuss his role in building collaborative partnerships between the Department of Defense and private sector companies to meet the demands of America’s future goals in space.

Located in Silicon Valley, the Defense Innovation Unit is a fast-moving DoD organization contracts with commercial companies to solve national security problems and foster technology innovation for the 21st century.

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Brigadier General Steven Butow is the Space Portfolio Director for the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) of the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research & Engineering, located in Silicon Valley.

Prior to joining DIU, he was the Vice Chief of the Joint Staff, California Military Department, and a former Commander of the 129th Rescue Wing at Moffett Federal Airfield, CA. General Butow has additionally served as the Deputy Director of the Joint Search and Rescue Center for U.S. Central Command in 2005, and as Chief of Personnel Recovery for U.S. Air Forces Central in 2007 supporting Operations IRAQI and ENDURING FREEDOM.

Butow has a B.A. in Physics & Astronomy from San Jose State University and an M.S. in Management from the University of Maryland, and has completed executive courses at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

In this exclusive interview we explore the discovery of the world’s first room-temperature superconductor with Dr. Ranga Dias, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Physics & Astronomy at the University of Rochester. He joins us to describe his team’s historic achievement of room temperature superconductivity in an organically-derived carbonaceous sulfur hydride at a remarkable 58 degrees Fahrenheit and a crushing pressure of 39 million psi.

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Professor Ranga Dias received his B.S. from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2006 and his Ph.D. in physics from Washington State University in 2013. He joins the University of Rochester after a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Physics at Harvard University, where he investigated the quantum phenomena in hydrogens at extreme conditions.

Dr. Dias is an internationally recognized scientist in the field of high pressure physics, and his work has also been reported in popular press, e.g. New York Times, BBC, NBC, NPR, Physics Today, New Scientist, Chemistry World, Science News, and Nature News and Views.

We’re joined by Kara Cunzeman, Lead Futurist for Strategic Foresight for the Center for Space Policy and Strategy at The Aerospace Corporation. She joins us to discuss her role in strategic foresight and to offer her thoughts on the future of space defense and commercial industry.

We’re joined by Franc Milburn, former intelligence officer, strategic risk analyst, and author of “The Pentagon’s UAP Task Force”, to discuss the US Government’s AATIP and UAPTF investigations and the potential risks & threats posed by Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).

What makes the Navy UAP sightings so important?

The Navy UAP sightings since 2004 are important because of a high level of verifiable data, from the range of sensors, platforms, outstanding credibility, professional and tech expertise of the witnesses, the videos, open source scientific analysis, like that from the SCU for UAP studies.

How does older UFO data apply to current UAP studies?

It’s important not to let post-2004 modern UFO period dominate as there are plenty of compelling cases from the past 70 years with outstanding witnesses and sometimes documentation to back them up – Tehran 1976 case.

Where are UAPs from?

Eric Davis uses “off-world”, but the DoD has said unidentified… he was in his own words a DoD advisor, so people can draw their own conclusions. Look back to his NIDs days and John Alexanders´s and others´ comments, there are a range of possibilities as I outlined in the paper. Time traveler, inter-dimensional, ET, PSP… April 2019 interview, Dr. Davis says: “We do know one thing. We know they´re there. We don´t know their origin because they don´t want to communicate that to us.”

Are UAPs a threat?

Threat = Capability + Intent. People say they are not a threat, they are a threat, they want to help us, they want to infiltrate us (David Jacobs). Who are they? Without knowing that you can’t assign intent. Russians, Chi-com, North Korea, Iran.. you can assign intentions based on observation as well as stated intentions. As Luis Elizondo has said, “There are patterns we´ve recognized – what UAP are interested in which are not different from what adversaries are interested in….the methodologies we see these UAP conduct their operations is very similar to the way we outselves would conduct some sort of reconnaissance mission.”

Are UAP behaviors dangerous?

Jamming, dangerous intercepts, operationally affecting nukes would all be considered hostile, aggressive / unsafe if done by neer-peer adversaries, acts and we see jamming / painting with targeting radars and aggressive intercepts fairly regularly. The intelligences behind UAP, as you have already pointed out – would know that humans are highly territorial and anyone monitoring us would know that there are locations and periods of extremely high flash-point tensions around the world. 1976. Tehran case Jamming. DIA interest, Cdr David Fravor reported jamming.

Are UAPs testing our defense capabilities?

Eric Davis has said it has all been just hide and seek, hide and seek, and we’ll use stealth as far as possible so that humans don’t see us in the environment and then when we expose ourselves, we expose ourselves, do our little fun games and then take off. They may be testing our technology. They may be testing the US Navy´s capabilities when they do this and they have also done this with the Air Force too. What are they doing it for? They are not humans so they don´t think like humans. In case they decide to become aggressive, we´re screwed.

We’re joined by Dr. Kevin Knuth, Associate Professor of Physics at University at Albany, to discuss his quest for evidence-based answers for the UAP phenomenon. Some of the speaking points we’ll be covering include:

In September 2019 he published, “Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles” co-authored by Robert M. Powell and Peter Reali. In that paper, he described UAPs as reportedly being “structured craft that exhibit ‘impossible flight characteristics’. We’re going to drill down on that statement, and explore the “5 observables of UAPs“, which are positive lift, Sudden Acceleration, Hypersonic Velocity without Signatures, Trans-Medium Travel, and Low Observability.

In the Entropy paper, his team did analysis on the 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac encounters, and describe these craft as having “ Estimated accelerations range from almost 100 g to 1000s of gs with no observed air disturbance, no sonic booms, and no evidence of excessive heat,” and, ”observed flight characteristics of these craft are consistent with the flight characteristics required for interstellar travel”. We’re going to explore the implications of these statements, and the underlying assumption that if UAPs are in fact capable of intersellar travel, then they are likely to actually be vehicles of extraterrestrial origin.

Speculation on these vehicles seems to suggest they are either secret black project aircraft, extraterrestrial spacecraft, time-traveling humans, or something from another dimension. We’ll be discussing which of these possibilities he feels is the most likely based on existing evidence, and whether there is reason to think that any terrestrial government could be capable of designing an aircraft that would match UAP reported performance.

Additionally, we’ll be touching on his description of UAPs as appearing to “violate the laws of physics in that they do not have flight or control surfaces, any visible means of propulsion apparently violating Newton’s Third Law, and can operate in multiple media, such as space (low Earth orbit), air, and water without apparent hindrance, sonic booms, or heat dumps.”

Our worldview is shaped by the symbols we use to define it. What happens when we learn to see beyond the limitations of those symbols? We’re joined by Deepak Chopra, M.D., the world-renowned author and speaker on alternative medicine and consciousness to explore themes in his latest book, Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential.

DEEPAK CHOPRA MD, FACP, founder of The Chopra Foundation, a non-profit entity for research on well-being and humanitarianism, and Chopra Global, a modern-day health company at the intersection of science and spirituality, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation.

Chopra is a Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, San Diego and serves as a senior scientist with Gallup Organization. He is the author of over 90 books translated into over forty-three languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers.

For the last thirty years, Chopra has been at the forefront of the meditation revolution and his 92nd book, Abundance (Harmony Books) provides an enlightening guide to success, fulfillment, wholeness, and plenty, offering practical advice on how to cultivate a sense of abundance in times of fear and insecurity. TIME magazine has described Dr. Chopra as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.”

we’re joined today by Deepak Chopra, the world-renowned champion of integrative medicine, who has been called “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century” by Time Magazine. Dr. Chopra is the author of over 91 books in over 43 languages, including many fiction & non-fiction New York Times bestsellers.

Today we’re discussing the themes in his book, “You Are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters”, which explores relationships between physics, consciousness, and the universe we live in.

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