how do kerbals occupy themselves

[insert_name]

How do kerbals keep sane on decades long missions or "long term assignment". do they play board games, videogames, hang out with other kerbals on board. and for that matter do kebals age, or gain weight, because I can leave one in a chair for a quarter century, and their fine with it and don't need to exercise?

[Hagen von Tronje]

Every cockpit and crew cabin has a PC with KSP x64 and a bevy of mods installed. That and snacks is all they need.

[Bill Phil]

They don't beed sustenance.

Plus they're already crazy.

[mythbusters844]

They have a gaming PC with Human Space Program.

[Yukon0009]

Unfortunately HSP is still very buggy, so they have a whole ton of other games like Half-Kerb 2.

[Goddess Bhavani]

I think they amuse themselves with the approximately 26 tons of B-movie DVDs I filled the cargo bay with?

[Bloody_looser]

They drink liquid fuel. Not the best activity, tbh, but keeps them going.

[mrclucks]

They have the ability to perceive everything within 2.5 kerometers around them so they count the atoms.

that's also why high part count crafts are laggy. The kerbals have to perceive them!

[viktor19]

They drink liquid fuel. Not the best activity, tbh, but keeps them going.

That's not a good idea beacause it literally keeps them going.

[FlyingPete]

Jayne Kerman: "I'll be in my bunk..."

As for the rest, I guess they play board games a lot of the time (no idea how that works in zero-g) and use the ISRU converters to make incredibly strong booze.

[Goddess Bhavani]

I'm sure photosynthesizing is one of them. They're green after all

[psychopoak]

according to the tons of postit in the cockpit with bold "don't touch this" scattered everywhere, they are not allowed to do that much! even a trip to minmus could be a pain as it would at least take two weeks of floating around in the cockpit watching the greatfull emptiness of space.

but be sure almost everytime the almighty Kraken hits, some kerbal may have decided to ignore a sticky note and end up screwing the whole ship

[jean400]

Jayne Kerman: "I'll be in my bunk..."

As for the rest, I guess they play board games a lot of the time (no idea how that works in zero-g) and use the ISRU converters to make incredibly strong booze.

They could just use magnetic boards, right? the real problem is with rolling the dice in 0g, no idea how that's gonna work.

[insert_name]

Probably they invent a zero gravity sport and use bob as a ball

[peachoftree]

They could just use magnetic boards, right? the real problem is with rolling the dice in 0g, no idea how that's gonna work.

It could be contained in a small chamber which can be shaken and has a toggle-able magnet that pulls down the closest side.

[MrWalrus123]

They play Kerbal Space program as shown by the PS4, Xbox, and Wii U teasers

[Xyphos]

They have a gaming PC with Human Space Program.

I see what you did there.

clever.

[Skorpychan]

They're incredibly easily amused, and spend their time gazing out the windows in wonder.

[severedsolo]

They're incredibly easily amused, and spend their time gazing out the windows in wonder.

To be fair, I do that too when I play KSP. Methaphorically anyway. KSP can be a beautiful game, I love just looking around sometimes.

[worir4]

They all have staring contests.

[ComradeWolfe]

It could be contained in a small chamber which can be shaken and has a toggle-able magnet that pulls down the closest side.

The life support system has an intake for the air scrubbers. Attach a hose to the intake for mild vacuum, then hook it up to a tray with a false bottom made of mesh panel (the stuff in the windows of microwaves). The airflow/suction will hold the die to the mesh panel.

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I think they amuse themselves just the same as astronauts here one earth. Books, etc.

[Geschosskopf]

How do kerbals keep sane on decades long missions or "long term assignment". do they play board games, videogames, hang out with other kerbals on board. and for that matter do kebals age, or gain weight, because I can leave one in a chair for a quarter century, and their fine with it and don't need to exercise?

Well, because new Kerbals arrive at KSC with zero training, and because the Astronaut Complex is incapable of training them, they get their training while in space. As they sit in their pods for days/months/years, they watch instructional videos over and over that teach them to perform the simple, menial tasks required of them (fix flat tires, reload Goo cannisters, etc.). Physical restraints are used to ensure they watch the videos and various chemicals are pumped into them to enhance their retention of the material. The process looks like this in operation:

[lukethecoder64]

Why, They play Kerbal space program!

Level 2 Astro Complex

http://i.imgur.com/Yex7NWK.png?1

Luke

[BlueCanary]

"I spy with my little eye something beginning with... e"

"The empty void of space stretching out endlessly before us as it will continue to do so for years to come?"

"yes"

[Aragosnat]

One of the old trailers for their updates Squad did. Showed them playing cards. Building card houses will likely be next. Stone carving and possibly wood carving since they do have trees now around KSC.