(An 8h x 5d x 48w year is 1920 hours. On the other hand, when I'm not at work, I can go for a week hill walking if I want, and there's nothing the Boss can say - it's my compensatory time for sleeping at the work site and being on 24x7 call.
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Don't get me wrong- this is draining. But it's not impossible.
OTOH, there is a good reason that 90% of trainees move on to office work instead of staying in field work : a lot of them can't handle the fieldwork.
Ah, I see. So the "costs spiraling out of control" part that you guys said would happen immediately and didn't has merely been postponed. I get it.
Another victory for the gun industry.
It's a very complicated situation, with many factors. You are absolutely correct - the "immigrant mentality" is with her and her family, and they work very hard and emphasize education. It's no mistake that she and her siblings went to excellent schools and have advanced degrees. At the same time, she definitely runs into racism. And I'm more sensitive to it than I used to be - I notice it now where I didn't in the past.
The good news in all of this is that things seem to be improving rapidly. The militantly "all white" neighborhoods are now integrating. Affluent people are moving into what used to be a war zone (gentrification). You see mixed-race groups of friends much more commonly than in the past. Millennials seem a lot less hung up on race. It's hard to believe that my wife was born a year after interracial marriage became legal in the entire US. There's still a lot to do, but wow. We even have a half-black, half-white President - same as my kids.
Removal of fingers, ears, external genitalia, in approximately that order. Lots of unsubtle anal rape with a cattle prod. Come on guys - you've got professionals doing this stuff for your government. It's not rocket science (though you can use pyrotechnics, if you want to be showy). Just good old torture. And you need to communicate to the spammers to make sure that they know their children, siblings or parents are paying for their actions.
My normal working day is 18-19 hours, but when we're in critical operations I go down to working about 03:00 to 12:00, have a nap after lunch, then am back on shift from 13:00 to about midnight ; lather, rinse repeat. After a week, you're really looking forward to a solid 5 hours sleep, but you can get by, and make decisions and react to unplanned events during that time.
That's oilfield operations, and generally not safety critical (I don't operate cranes or powered equipment, for example) and it's not preferred to working a 12-12 hour shift pattern. But if that's what the manning provided requires, that's what you do.
A smaller panel got sunlight when the drill was used to rotate the probe. So, if it is powered down and we wait, it should eventually charge back up. Each time that happens, the ESA can work at getting it into a better position, little by little.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work like that. A significant amount of power goes into heating the batteries up, which is necessary to get a significant amount of power out of (and in to) the batteries.
Batteries are, as I'm sure you realise, chemical devices.
All chemical devices operate at different rates at different temperatures.
A popular rule of thumb is that a 10degree (Kelvin/ Centigrade) increase in temperature will double the rate of a reaction.
These will be mollified as the comet comes closer to the sun. But working out the exact probabilities is just plain unpredictable. Plan 'B' of listening for "pings" regularly is indicated, while the rest of the science programme continues.
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford