You know you're addicted to Orbiter when...

[River Crab]

When people in your house wonder why you keep screaming, "What do you mean, 'Thrust Not Max Turbo Shutdown'!?"

Like Keyboard Crusher (Angry German Kid)?

Poor backspace...

 

[HAL9001]

...when you live in an apartment building and you hang up a WARNING sign in the entrance that only the house-door OR the door to your flat may be opened, never both at once.

 

[Pyroka]

...when your other car really is a DGIV.

...when you can reenter and stick a landing at Wideawake, and then wake up wonder what you are doing in your desk chair with Orbiter running on your computer.

 

[Rtyh-12]

Let's continue my last post, I have some new ideas. Enjoy!

You know you're addicted to Orbiter...

...when you wonder why NASA says that no spacecraft on Earth has enough deltaV to do [insert crazy space manouver here], when the DG can travel around the solar system with ease.

...when someone asks you why you weren't at your meeting and you say that you hovered with your DeltaGlider over the area and saw nothing, so you returned to KSC.

...when you wonder why this thread is tagged with "humor", because you think that all of these symptoms are normal.

...when your backspace key is doomed.

...when you hopelessly try to explain other people why someone would hail Luna 3.

...when people in your house wonder why you keep talking to yourself: 'Booster officer reports good solid rocket booster separation.' 'Atlantis, two engine TAL.' 'Atlantis, single engine Zaragoza, one-o-four.' 'Roger, single engine Zaragoza, one-o-four.' 'Atlantis, ET SEP.'

...when your most favorite-est town in the whole world is Brighton Beach.

...when they stop you at the airport because they think that you belong to some weird fanatical religious sect which involves a god called "Probe".

That's it...for now. I will go and try going to the Moon with TransX.
(No, I'm not addicted. I can stop whenever I want. Just...just...nooo don't close it ahhhh I WANT MY TLI BURN!!!!!!!!)

 

[n122vu]

...when you put your entire mp3 collection in your Orbiter\Sound\mp3 directory, and when you want to listen to music, rather than open [insert popular media player here], you open Orbiter instead, pull up the Radio mfd and set mp3 playing to 'always'.

 

[dougkeenan]

...when you put your entire mp3 collection in your Orbiter\Sound\mp3 directory, and when you want to listen to music, rather than open [insert popular media player here], you open Orbiter instead, pull up the Radio mfd and set mp3 playing to 'always'.

Oh my that's a good one. Hadn't thought about that. :thumbup:

 

[HAL9001]

Let's continue my last post, I have some new ideas. Enjoy!

You know you're addicted to Orbiter...

...when they stop you at the airport because they think that you belong to some weird fanatical religious sect which involves a god called "Probe".

why did you just carry tht funny blue bomb with that three antennas? (just joking)

 

[Izack]

Oh my that's a good one. Hadn't thought about that. :thumbup:

What, really? That's what I always do...

 

[n122vu]

I think I have the be-all-end-all sign of addiction, right here. You know you're addicted to Orbiter when you say the following in an interview...

 

[squeaky024]

- When you break out laughing when your teacher says "Everyone please check your grades, progress reports are due for us on Tuesday!"

It just happened (yes I'm on the forum in school :lol: )

 

[dougkeenan]

What, really? That's what I always do...

Has anybody suggested an Orbiter operating system (OOS)? You'd be addicted to Orbiter if your PC was entirely optimized to run Orbiter first, and applications secondarily accessed through Orbiter calls.

 

[Spacethingy]

Similar to the very first "you know when..." comment on this thread:

...when you consider building a snow-model DG in your back garden, but give up on realising that: a) snow does not have enough tensile strength to survive launch, and b) it will be very difficult to explain to people what exactly you are building without sounding strange.

 

[Kevon Daye]

When you're watching a movie that uses stock shuttle footage, and you can tell which shuttle it is at a glance (just happened, Under Siege 2 is on tv and in the beginning they use stock footage of a Columbia launch)

 

[Columbia42]

When while you're watching Star Trek (or any other scifi space show) you stop and run through the spacecraft's manuevers in Orbiter just to make sure they did their calculations right.

 

[jedidia]

They don't do any calculation for star trek, they're just widly throwing together terms they heard somewhere. Picard: "Assume a synchronous polar orbit, mr. Data!" Data (properly): "WTF?"

 

[Columbia42]

You know you're addicted to Orbiter when you see lox and bagels on a menu at a restaraunt and think they mean liquid oxygen and bagels.

 

[Grover]

when you wake up, and in your tired state think that your clocks [6:15] display is a countdown to PeT: "i have 6 minutes till i need to go retrograde"

a personal experience

 

[Ghostrider]

liquid oxygen and bagels.

Extra points if you call the combination "BageLOX".

Dominating if you try to calculate its ISP.

Unstoppable if you design a BageLOX engine.

GODLIKE if you model it in Orbiter.

 

[Grover]

when you decide its quicker to slingshot around the building on the other side of college than to just walk there

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when you're writing a geography essay about tectonic hazards and you wonder if its appropriate to mention that if we could all get on a few arrows and go to biodomes on Mars, we'd all be fine

 

[Columbia42]

Extra points if you call the combination "BageLOX".

Dominating if you try to calculate its ISP.

Unstoppable if you design a BageLOX engine.

GODLIKE if you model it in Orbiter.

Hold on while I go light some bagels on fire and see how well they work as rocket fuel...