TED演讲:火星现在是什么时间(8)
But of course, it’s 2016, so there’s an app for that.
当然，到了2016年，已经有手机软件可以替代手表了。
So now instead of the watches, we can also use our phones.
现在我们可以用手机来代替手表。
But the impact on families was just across the board;
但这对家庭的影响的确是非常大的；
it wasn’t just those of us who were working on the rovers but our families as well.
不仅仅是我们这些操控漫游者的人，还有我们的家人。
This is David Oh, one of our flight directors,
这是大卫，我们的飞行指挥官之一，
and he’s at the beach in Los Angeles with his family at 1:00 in the morning.
这是他在洛杉矶的沙滩上，凌晨1点。
So because we landed in August and his kids didn’t have to go back to school until September,
因为我们的探测器8月份就要着陆，他的孩子直到9月份才会开学，
they actually went on to Mars time with him for one month.
他们就随着他过了一个月火星时间。
They got up 40 minutes later every day. And they were on dad’s work schedule.
他们的作息每天都会推迟40分钟。全家都随着父亲的日程表。
So they lived on Mars time for a month and had these great adventures,
他们过了一个月火星时间，现在想来还真是一个大挑战，
like going bowling in the middle of the night or going to the beach.
像是在午夜去打保龄球，或是去沙滩。
And one of the things that we all discovered is you can get anywhere in Los Angeles at 3:00 in the morning when there’s no traffic.
而且我们都发现了一件事，你可以在凌晨3点去洛杉矶的任何地方，大街上空荡荡的，一辆车也没有。
纳金·考克斯是第一代火星人。作为美国航天局喷气推进实验室的一名航天器工程师，考克斯工作的团队操控着美国在火星的巡游者探测器。但是在另一个星球朝九晚五的上班很特别，尤其是这个星球还比地球多了40分钟，是很有意思也极具挑战的工作。