The "You know you're playing a lot of KSP when..." thread

[RocketBlam]

When your driving around in your car and you don't turn a corner, you burn prograde to change the apoapsis of your vehicle.

[zeppelin415]

I start explaining orbital mechanics to people for random reasons. i.e. something on TV.

[pslytely psycho]

When you're playing Skyrim and think, "wouldn't it be kool to find a tribe of primitive Kerbals, making a wooden and iron spacecraft."

[Superfluous J]

When you see the Moon in the sky and you look around to see if Minmus is up as well.

[Boosterspice]

When you read about Curiosity and think "Hey, I launched that". And then "Wait, that was Pandora".

[running]

My son makes crayon drawings of rockets and space stations and asks me to build it in KSP.

[Blue]

My son makes crayon drawings of rockets and space stations and asks me to build it in KSP.

My day has suddenly improved greatly. That is so encouraging to hear.

[CaptainArchmage]

My son makes crayon drawings of rockets and space stations and asks me to build it in KSP.

Good! Someone will grow up knowing what actual space stations look like, and also what usually works and what does not.

[TranquilTempest]

When someone says TMI and you think they're talking about a Mun mission.

[Deadpangod3]

When your writing down the planets names in a test and while you writing mercury, Venus, earth, mars, your mind is going Moho, eve, kerbin, Duna,

[Nicke]

I do almost every time those matematic thing and i have been playing ksp almost every single day!

[WillHop]

Not really a biggy but today I was studying Russian history in the early 20th century. The Tsar named his government the Duma. I wrote Duna every. Single. Time.

[SargeRho]

You know you play too much KSP when you get annoyed by movie spacecraft.

[Deadweasel]

You know you play too much KSP when you get annoyed by movie spacecraft.

I'll second this, and expand it to include most space-based movies (excluding Moon, which was just freaking sweet).

Just watched The Last Days on Mars the other night, and near the end, a transport shuttle was departing from its mothership for Mars' surface. It disconnected and burned forward and downward for the landing zone, causing no small irritation on my part, ("that's not how it works!!").

Then there was Elysium, where transports could apparently just burn straight up and rendezvous directly with the station at any old time. Nothing about launch windows really mentioned, they just went up and out directly for the station whenever they felt like it, and next shot they were coming straight in to land directly on the wide-open and yet somehow still pressurized habitat grounds.

Then there was Gravity, which at some points completely ignored Newton and human nature so thoroughly as to make me wonder what the heck all the fuss had been about with that movie. The tension was well-built during the first portion, but after that it started feeling like they were going out of their way to insult the intelligence of audience, or at least didn't care to maintain the level of realism they'd set out with. Oh yeah, those lengthy "no cut" scenes were impressive, but I really got the feeling that, like Avatar, the entire film existed solely to show off the director's Huge Super Good Happy Time Idea, and that was it.

[Th_]

When you look at the ISS and think of all the part lag they must get.

[Othuyeg]

When you spend 2 hours doing an EVA from Minmus to Kerbin orbit.

[Iforgotthis]

I refused to see that movie because the Space Shuttle/s are retired in real life. 2> Sandra Bullock would be wearing nappies on ISS = not sexy

3> How much fuel would they use going from Hubble to ISS again ??? FAIL

Technically china hasn't finished its space station, not the one mentioned in the film. This means the film could be set in the near future, where the space shuttle has been brought back into action.

Just an idea.

[Deadpangod3]

When this happens

AKA Whackjovians Disease.

[LadyAthena]

When you roll out of bed by accident, and instantly think of your kerbals falling from the command capsule after exiting....

[SuperBigD60]

When you roll out of bed by accident, and instantly think of your kerbals falling from the command capsule after exiting....

You have time to sleep?

[Togusa]

You know you play KSP too much when:

- You're adjusting Bezier curves in Adobe Illustrator and wonder if you have enough delta-V to make the course correction.

- You watch someone on YouTube launching a large rocket, and the first thought you have is "needs more struts". (The person in question already had 40 bozillion boosters attached to the thing, but nary a strut anywhere.)

- Speaking of YouTube, the first video you watch is posted by Scott Manley, Kurtjmac, Danny2462, or Xactar. (Hat tips to all of them.)

(This is my first post here. I wanted to post an introduction first, but this thread is too good not to jump into right off the bat. )

[Sternface]

You know you play too much KSP when you instinctively reach for the period button on your keyboard to time warp through a boring "when I was your age" phone call with grandpa.

[Sargent890]

When you're working in Unity, watching an object slowly float away and wish you could time warp.

[Xaelath]

When you're staring at the Moon, saying "Oh, I landed there. Nice little spot for my Mun Base."

Also when you realized that the Earth doesn't have a second moon.

[Red Iron Crown]

You keep opening the help menu when trying to take screenshots in other programs.