"while the majority of the crew fight a fire underneath the kerosene filled cable spools (with kilometers of microphone cables) during a monsoon storm."
That reads like a scene from a distater movie. I am talking regular people with day jobs!
Also, your use of India / Pakistan while you could have used any other nuclear power smells of prejudice.
That was my day job, designing building, field testing seismic mapping systems. Lots of coding, lots of firmware, some hardware.
> Also, your use of India / Pakistan while you could have used any other nuclear power smells of prejudice.
Or simply that I'm not old enough to have been over the Monte Bello's test site when it was live, whereas we were contracted to fly radiometric surveys over the Pokhran-II test site on the day of the first explosion, and crew were detained until after the completion of the Chagai-I response.
If it helps, I've flown over many a former test site, many a tailings pond for a uranium mine in many parts of the world. It's a dull fact that the Pokran-II site is the only such place that went 'live' on a work day (in my experience at least).
My job as a software dev is usually pretty cushy office job.
Then sometimes I get involved in seagoing expeditions or trials as part of it, and it changes a lot. Still very much a day job. I am not (that much of) a trained mariner. Definitely become witness to (and involved in) high-pressure situations, like "we have to winch this big yellow thing onto the deck, but it's too close to the aft and we can't reach it with the grappling hooks, it's dangerously close to getting sucked into the propellers, please please figure out how to fix the networking so we can send the CHANGE_HEADING command to get it to drift to a safe grappling distance".
It definitely does wonders for honing your Calm Problem Solving mode.
That reads like a scene from a distater movie. I am talking regular people with day jobs!
Also, your use of India / Pakistan while you could have used any other nuclear power smells of prejudice.