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

[Matt Decker]

You don't get up and close the window tight, because the whirring noise makes it seems like your at the Cape waiting for lunch.

 

[Talon1]

...when you actually needed to revive a thread which has existed since at least 2005 in various forms.

...when driving to McDonald's takes all night, because instead of just coming home right away, you decide to circle your block for several hours so that "you can land in daylight".

...when approaching the drive-thru at McD's, you slow to a crawl and approach the window at no more than 2 cm per second, and yell out "Capture!" as they hand you your shake and burger.

...when driving around you see a bright light in the sky and try to hit the F9 key to see what it is. (I've actually caught myself doing this!)

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
ROFL!!!!! THATS CLASSIC!!!!!!!
:roflcopter:


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When you look at a NASA ISS photo and right-click drag to try and get a better angle!

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:rofl::rofl::rofl:

 

[Andy44]

When you are going in for a job interview or an exam and hit CTL-S before walking in in case you screw it up.

 

[Pilot7893]

-When your Orbitersound MP3 collection is bigger than you CD and I-tunes/Napster collection combined
-You advertise Orbiter on other forums
-Whenever you see any spacecraft in any form of media, you wonder "Wouldn't it be cool to have that in Orbiter?"
-With half of the posts in this thread, you think "That means I'm addicted? Uh oh..."

 

[Talon1]

When you ram your car into your garrage door because you thought there was no collision detection.

When you wear a sweater and long pants to visit the beach because you think it is going to be 15 degrees celsius.

When you use a tape measure to measure the distace between your eyes and the moniter so you can set the field of view just right.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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"I turned on unlimited beer! What's the deal?"

:rofl::rofl::rofl:ROFL AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Guilty for this one:sorry:

lol, me too


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You know your NOT addicted when you wonder who the hell Zat's talking about. (Guilty)

You know you ARE addicted when you look up Tsiolkovsky in Wikipedia. (Guilty)

lol:lol:

 

[Ghostrider]

- When you're dealing with one of those combination crib-baby carriages gizmo things that separate in two parts and you refer to the crib part as the "ascent stage" and to the wheels section to the "descent stage".

- DOMINATING if you wonder if you've reset the stages correctly before separating the two.

- GODLIKE if you spend half a minute looking for the DSKY to punch in the Lunar Ascent program.

 

[Artlav]

And when you can correctly spell Tsiolkovsky without using Google or any other aids!

...when you can pronounce the name without having to look it up...

Hm. What is so special about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's name?

 

[Jarvitä]

Hm. What is so special about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's name?

I was wondering the same thing. Maybe it's the latin spelling? I don't know, Slavic names always look strange to me when spelt in latin.

 

[EJ316]

When you leave the 'atmosphere' of your home and listen to 'Air on a G string' until you arrive in the 'atmosphere' of the neighboring planet, School.

 

[Talon1]

When u do a bumper to bumper Car accident because u were thinking of docking to the back of that car :lol:.

When you post in the forums about ur first space journey in Orbiter.

When you search about pictures of the delta glider in google or Wikipedia.

lol:lol:

 

[Donamy]

This just in :

Man vows to fly to Mars, real time, with Orbiter Spaceflight sim. Locks self in bedroom and has "T" key removed.

 

[astrosammy]

And he removes all keys that make it possible to leave Orbiter, removes the shutdown button of his computer, and uses super-glue to make it impossible to pull out the cables of his PC, makes everything water resistant and floods the room to simulate zero-G.
OK let's bring him to the doctor, he's "Orbiter-Ill". :lol:

 

[Zatnikitelman]

...and he gets NRC approval for a nuclear reactor in his room just to power said computer incase of neighborhood power outages!

 

[simonpro]

Hm. What is so special about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's name?

A lot of westerners would pronounce it Kon-stan-tine Tsss-eyeoh-kov-sky.

 

[astrosammy]

Or Tsilosky, if you speak it to fast :lol:.

 

[Kaito]

When ur sitting there going "how the hell do u pronounce that", then asks how you pronounce it (that equation guy thingy)

 

[Urwumpe]

...you see "GetThrusterMoment" in the API Reference, think: "Hey, I can use this for replacing the three line calculations you currently do by a single line.", implement it, don't test it as it just calculates what you already calculated. And when you want to take off later, for a small spin, have a terrible crash because the torque compensation thruster does not fire.

When you then shout "Damn you Martin, for making Orbiters physics engine left-handed!" into the night, you are really badly addicted already.

 

[dougkeenan]

Heck, when you start thinking in left-handed notation that's a pretty good sign also!

 

[n122vu]

When you burn all the .wav files from the\Orbiter\Sound\Vessel folder to CD and play them in your car at various times, such as looping aircond.wav once you are going down the highway...

 

[Donamy]

Hello, my name is Don 'Donamy' Gallagher, and I'm an Orbiter addict.