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Optics
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I consider myself fortunate that I was an electronics engineer and not an optics engineer, as it was the optics team that was discharging massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the indoor environment at the Mauna Kea Observatories.
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From the outside all seemed in order; closer examination revealed chaos. Cleanliness and order were the colony's first concern. But imagine a house in which the people and the food are freezing. Imagine a cow which is maintained like a rifle, but whose fodder is twelve versts away in a field. Imagine that the woods had been burned down and that new roofing or building material had to be bought in Porkhovo then you begin to have an idea of state economics.
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