http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/19/david-oh-nasa_n_1807113.html
David Oh, NASA Engineer, Switches Family To Mars Time After Curiosity Landing
David Oh, NASA flight director of NASA's latest Mars mission, far left and his family have breakfast at 3 pm at their home in La Canada Flintridge, Calif. The Oh family has been living on Mars time and following an odd schedule ever since the NASA rover Curiosity landed in an ancient Martian crater on Aug. 5.
LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. -- For one family, an exotic summer getaway means living on Mars.
Martian time, that is.
Since the landing of NASA's newest Mars rover,
flight director David Oh's family has taken the unusual step of tagging along as he leaves Earth time behind and syncs his body clock with the red planet.
Every mission to Mars, a small army of scientists and engineers reports to duty on "Mars time" for the first three months. But it's almost unheard of for an entire family to flip their orderly lives upside down, shifting to what amounts to a time zone change a day.
Intrigued about abiding by extraterrestrial time, Oh's wife,
Bryn, could not pass up the chance to take their kids –
13-year-old Braden, 10-year-old Ashlyn and 8-year-old Devyn – on a Martian adventure from their home near the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory where the Curiosity rover was built.
"We all feel a little sleepy, a little jet-lagged all day long, but everyone is doing great," Bryn Oh said, two weeks into the experiment.
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Bryn Oh :barf4: said it's easy to lose track of what day it is. A simple question like "What time is it?" is difficult to answer. Do you mean Earth time? Curiosity time? The time that their bodies think they're on?
For the mission workers, the schedule is also more grueling than in the past. Their work hours tend to whiplash around depending on when orbiting spacecraft fly over the rover landing site to relay signals to Earth. One shift sends up commands spelling out what Curiosity will do for the day; another pores over the pictures beamed back.
To cope, workers talk as if they're on Mars, saluting "Good morning" to one another even though it might be dark outside. Cots are available for siestas. There's also free ice cream – "a little pick-me-up in the middle of the night," said mission manager Mike Watkins.
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WHEN DID WE STOP GIVING OUR JOBS TO WHITE, CHRISTIAN MALES SO THEY CAN PRODUCE FAMILIES? WE HAVE BEEN FRICKING INVADED, COLONIZED, AND REPLACED. THANKS WHITE WOMEN FOR PRODUCING NON-WHITES TO FURTHER REDUCE OUR NUMBERS).
(NOTE: GIVING CHINESE CHILDREN WHITE EUROPEAN NAMES DOES NOT MAKE THEM INTO WHITE EUROPEANS).