Jebediah has Gone Insane

[Sargent890]

A few KSP years ago (6 to be exact), I sent two identical craft into an orbit around Kerbin in order to complete my first completely manual docking described in this tutorial: http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Tutorial:_Gemini_6A_and_7. I docked the two craft and left them there for about 6 KSP years, being to busy to recover the kerbals and not wanting to de-orbit a historic site. About a week ago, though, I decided to recover the kerbals from the craft. I brought up my standard recovery craft and EVA'ed the kerbals over.

One thing I noticed was that Jebediah was smiling insanely and did so throughout the whole mission. The other three kerbals were acting normally. I landed the craft and am now preparing for a mission to Laythe, but Jeb hasn't stopped smiling! It's starting to scare me now. Anyone else having the problem?

Jeb in the recovery vehicle

[syfyguy64]

This is not out of the normal.

Judging by join date, you must be new here.

I still sorta am, but I like to know I played just before it went p2p.

[DisarmingBaton5]

Well yeah, he's Jeb.

Now strap him to an SRB and watch the fireworks. (I meant that figuratively, but oh well )

[jaredkzr]

Perfectly normal. The only way to get that guy to stop smiling is to fly a rocket at mach 4 straight into the ground, but even then results can't be guaranteed.

[Specialist290]

Nothing out of the ordinary, citizen. Jeb's always been like that

[Sargent890]

I had no idea that this was completely normal. Oh well, it does add some excitement to future missions!

[lajoswinkler]

Put him into a capsule on the launch pad and throw a fuel tank next to it. He'll stop immediately... for a while.

[manskal]

I love the expression on the other kerbal. 6 years on the job with Jeb, and counting.

Just another ordinary day in the Kerbal Space Program.

[Proxima]

I sent Jeb and another Kerbal (Can't remember exactly which) I sent him on a moon walk, I found the Neil Armstrong easter egg, but it was ages away from my landing site. So he went out, and I got bored halfway and I wasn't bothered to get him back. So I just left him lying on the floor (I pretended he was in Cryosleep) he's still there now, about 3 Ksp years on. Don't want to find out what his facial expression is now.....

[leax256]

jeb was always insane. he just hid it from most.

[FellipeC]

This is because Jeb is badass. True Story

[ArmchairGravy]

That is a great screenshot! I'm still laughing at the other Kerbal's look. This needs a caption contest!

[TicTacToe!]

Haha, you brewed him up for six years in orbit? Make sure carefully count the number of SRB's on your next launch...

[Sargent890]

Good idea!

[McKerbin]

I've only seen Jeb not smiling once... for just a second.

It was an SSTO test flight that went horribly bad. At about 22km the craft lost lift and started re-entry at about 1200m/s... with Farren & Deadly Re-entry mods. Parts started exploding and ripping off and Jeb frowned for a second as he went into a lunch expelling spin.

Amazingly he was able to (crash) land the craft with just 1 wing (no ailerons), a rudder, and the rocket engine. (Just the cockpit survived.)

And yes, Jeb was smiling insanely the rest of the way down.

[sorcerymon]

I've always imagined Jebediah has a personality similar to the "Space" personality-core from Portal 2.

[MrCoolx10]

[MrCoolx10]

This is how to fix it