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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to second this Motion by the very highly educated and erudite, Dr. Wilbur Otichilo. I am not sure if I am deserving of the accolades he has poured on me, but with humility, I accept them. In seconding this Motion, it is, probably, an embarrassment to the people of Kenya that up to this point in time our country has no policy and law to promote the development and use of space technology which at the moment is at the core of every advancement in achieving what we can call modern living. A lot of these limitations, the way I see them, come from the fact that without being prompted by anybody, Kenya has chosen to limit even its capacity to be ambitious. This is what it takes really. Our scientists must now think freely and boundlessly. As the saying goes, there is no limit to what the heart and mind of mankind can conceive and achieve. The only limits present are those we ourselves impose on us. I, therefore, thank hon. Dr. Otichilo very profusely for bringing this Motion which is timely. Kenya has been doing very well in space technology in so far as “baby steps” are concerned. However, much as we could have been seen as the pioneers, these very useful “baby steps” have not been seen. We have what really would have been useful satellite stations, but we slackened a bit and progress in that area has not been good. We should stop imposing limitations on what we can do and achieve and instead boldly join the world in pursuing what must be the foundation of any meaningful development, that is, space technology. As you are all aware, the foundation of modern technology is the famous theory of relativity by one of the most famous scientists the world has ever known, the late Albert Einstein. His theory was compressed in the famous equation that everybody who did engineering like myself had to know by heart: E= MC2. That is the foundation of modern technology. C, as most people would, probably, remember, refers to the speed of light which at the moment has been derived to be 300,000 kilometres per second. For a long time we have been told that nothing and nothing at all can travel faster than the speed of light. However, those of you who have been reading newspapers and watching television know that this theory is now being challenged. In fact, the very foundation of the technology as we know it now is being challenged because some scientists in Europe and, I think, in America, now claim that they have been able to generate particles that can travel faster than the speed of light by 600,000 kilometers per second. That is boldness for me. This is because when Mr. Einstein told us that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, we configured everything around it. Think of microchip and everything else that we do, it is like saying, “Do it, but know that beyond 300,000 kilometres per second there is nothing.” The fact that human beings with two arms, two eyes, two ears, and two legs like us are now able to challenge that foundation is a call to Kenyan scientists to come"
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