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

[Moach]

when stuck in traffic you fumble for the T key....

you constantly remind yourself how the engine in your car wastes energy with it's own internal drag, and how much more delta-V you'd be getting if you had a more efficient engine

you have absolutely no patience to deal with marketing moves from large game publishers *cough*M$*cough*

you find it a waste of human effort that so few people actually have jobs related to getting stuff into space

you make "whoosh" sounds, as you fly a fully simulated mission in your head when no-one's watching..... (you still do so, but more quietly when someone IS watching)




i too did fly simulators when i was 13.... mostly M$FS, since there was no orbiter back in 1998
the addiction must be fed

 

[HAL9001]

I'm 13 and got a flight simulator wich costs ca. 100 Euro (120 Dollar) to my ninth birthday.

:lol:

It was for RC-models and it has rented now, without it, I had wasted ca 300 Euro (360 Dollar) in smashing expensive RC models and we don't have so LOT'S of money in my family.

and the talent, yes, i don't want show off, but I needed 2 minutes to learn flying an RC-Model of an F-16 with pivoting wings and two 160 N Turbins, wich weights ore than I weigt at that time, with it's 60kg...
I now handled it to fly a plane and a helicopter at the same time with anmultiplayermode, my one of my joysticks and the special transmitter from the RC-model-simulator in the NEW RC-Simulator, wich is ABSOLUTLY reality (know that, because I have got a plane wich is in that simulator, too. absolut no difference, the simulator is a BITsome harder han reality)

 

[Stevodoran]

I'm 13 and got a flight simulator wich costs ca. 100 Euro (120 Dollar) to my ninth birthday.

:lol:

It was for RC-models and it has rented now, without it, I had wasted ca 300 Euro (360 Dollar) in smashing expensive RC models and we don't have so LOT'S of money in my family.

it the recession isnt it

 

[HAL9001]

a BITsome, but we never were millioopneers.
but we can pay rent, eat, electricity, and a few ne books and computergames monthly. I won 3000 Euro in a competition about inventing (not building) a new pane, but that's all given out for a new computer, solid works, and a part was for the one friend of me who has invented that pane, too (teamwork)

but that goes a bitsome too much to fftopic: now. lets
let's go back to "you know you are addictet too..."

 

[donatelo200]

When you make 5 solar systems without taking a break and then think about making another.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

When your wife poses suggestively at the computer room door asking "When are you coming to bed?", and you know what she has in mind, but really want to finish writing your guidance file first...

 

[adamb193]

When you consider turning your work's/ school's $35,000 lighting console into something capable of playing Orbiter. Just need to get it working on Linux and it can be done.

 

[Alexw95]

When you are flying the nassap apollo 13 mission while watching the movie

 

[Izack]

yes, i don't want show off, but I needed 2 minutes to learn flying an RC-Model of an F-16 with pivoting wings and two 160 N Turbins, wich weights ore than I weigt at that time, with it's 60kg...

Good lord, that's more than I weigh now. :lol:

 

[Talon1]

Just a side question, but what does "Hail Probe!" mean again? It's been a LONG time since I came online. XD

 

[Lucy]

http://www.orbiterwiki.org/wiki/Probe

 

[Talon1]

http://www.orbiterwiki.org/wiki/Probe

Oh... Ok then... HAIL PROBE!!! :hail: :lol:

 

[jedidia]

When your wife poses suggestively at the computer room door asking "When are you coming to bed?", and you know what she has in mind, but really want to finish writing your guidance file first...

Well, I might have been tempted every once in a while if it where only a passed up opportunity. But it's basically the choice between a rather good time now, allthough I planed to use it differently, or a hell of a drama later, and that's just not worth it... :lol:

 

[squeaky024]

You know you're addicted to orbiter when you buy this just because it resembles the delta glider.:thumbup:

 

[TMac3000]

I propose a joint party on the ISS.

A joint party?:blink:

Marijuana in spaaaace:jiggy:

Sounds like fun, but might be dangerous...

 

[Izack]

A joint party?:blink:

Marijuana in spaaaace:jiggy:

Sounds like fun, but might be dangerous...

No kidding.

(Picture by Moach)

 

[n122vu]

...while sitting in traffic, you wish when you got home you could edit the source code for your car so the hover engines actually lift you off the ground on Earth, much like you just did for the default Deltaglider the night before, so you can fly over said traffic.

 

[Talon1]

No kidding.

(Picture by Moach)

Hahahaha!!! Awesome picture. :lol:

 

[Wally]

... when planning a trip with your car trough Europe you think at highway exits as burns.
... when calling your parents feels like calling Mission Control.
... when a malfunction of the electrical bus in the car is regarded as an APU failure.
... when doing parakiting and thinking at Gus Grisson when you wait the boat to rescue you from the water (and hearing Gene Krantz saying Get Gus! Get Gus! from When We Left Earth series).

 

[Moach]

hey, juet yesterday i had an APU failure on my mom's car (which i have borrowed while mine is in the shop)... i was coming home after a full saturday of C++ learning, and the battery went kaput :facepalm:

luckily, the guy who tends to the parking garage had a pair of jumper cables - so we were able to "reroute the main elec bus" and "spool up" the engine without the... erm... "APU"
:rofl: