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

[Bay23]

You start to wonder why there are no female Kerbals.

[eddiew]

You wake up now knowing why yesterday's SSTO didn't fly... (the engines weren't vertically aligned with the CoM)

[alexman142]

When you say Duna in science class, and then your teacher replies "so Dawn is orbiting Eeloo now, right?" Then he winks

[KarmaLarma]

A significant portion of my subconscious mind is devoted to continually solving problems that crop up when playing KSP.

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-When you open your mouth with some grin and you classmates instantly know what you're going to talk about.

-When you try to go on and EVA from boring lessons.

Yup. That's pretty much my daily school life.

When you open up your science book, take one look at the rocket in the physics section and go "Yup. That's not right" and spend the next 20 minutes of science class fixing the staging and labeling the portions of the rocket as proof.

Edited March 11, 2015 by KarmaLarma

[RandomActPG]

When you're running low on gas in your car and start wondering if you have the delta-v to get to a refueling station.

[Brainlord Mesomorph]

When you're running low on gas in your car and start wondering if you have the delta-v to get to a refueling station.

Your car battery is dead, and you feel like "why didn't I install the solar panels?"

[Deutherius]

When you accidentally refer to "catching the bus/train" as "not missing the optimal transfer window"

When you want to screenshot something and automatically press F1 (and later wonder why no screenshot was taken)

Edited March 16, 2015 by Deutherius

[Delrey]

When you see the 4 solar panels on the orion service module and think "with some minor orientation they could kept the part count down"

[Lhathron the Elf]

At night I fall asleep thinking about how to design my next rocket. Also, a couple nights ago I had a dream about flying a really weird looking probe into Duna orbit.

[SickSix]

When you dream about it... Seriously too many hours in the last week.

[Sampa]

you started saying that your system got attacked by the Kraken and they have no clue that you are making a KSP reference

[Lhathron the Elf]

Your car battery is dead, and you feel like "why didn't I install the solar panels?"

You get a flat tire and immediately look around to see if you have an engineer.

[jake9039]

when you are watching youtube and want to timewarp to the good part, right click spin their game, and then are like "oh man. it's 3 am! I need to get lunch! quick, f5 for safety real quick, just in case of food poisoning", and then on your way to the kitchen you try to transfer from your room to there, and then eat snacks as mechjeb makes your food burn on the grill. lastly, you f5 again, and critisize games and movies while playing ksp in your head. then the fire trucks come as your grilled cheese burns and you think"man! the grill ran out of delta-V"

also, (that is not what I do, but after this is a true story) when you say all sorts of ksp terms and the people you are talking to are like"what are you talking about?" and you realize you said duna,jool,venus,eve,and mun.

Edited March 17, 2015 by jake9039

[Yukon0009]

- you notice your clock ran out of juice and think "Where the hell are the spare RTGs?"

- you mistakenly call all the planets their Kerbal representatives and only stop when you think "Hey wait, Saturn? Eh?"

- get stuck in a traffic jam and think "I shoulda downloaded BD Armoury."

- every single damn time I write a school assignment, it ends up as some reference to KSP

[jake9039]

when on weekend revei and all you talk about is making ssto's

[Brainlord Mesomorph]

Driving down the interstate, your mentally converting MPH into m/s

(I've been working on rovers lately)

[Elowiny]

When you are running, and when you are tired, you think "Not enough Delta-V!"

[tommypops]

When you have finished riding your bike up your circular street in a progr-erm... Counterclockwise direction, you spin around to cancel out your relative velocity to the house, but luckily, when you fall, your launch esca- erm... Bike helmet saves you.

this actually happened. Don't daydream about KSP while riding a bike!

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

When you turn on symmetry while building with LEGO bricks.

[TrainEngie]

When you wonder why that Kerbodyne tank is so small and it contains toothpaste, then realize it's Sensodyne.

When you dream of boats with RCS thrusters on them.

When you try to sleep and rockets start doing high-G ballet without blowing up.

When you try to get an 8 minute mile time in PE by running with an athletic classmate then leaving them, then when you finish the mile, you call them a solid rocket booster.

When you put your arms on other's shoulders and call them solid rocket boosters.

When you see a mobile with Saturn discolored and wonder, "Why does Jool have rings???"

When you try to drift a rover on Kerbin with Initial D music playing, and end up flipping the rover over.

When you wonder how many struts are on the Saturn V.

[One-Way Films]

When you start pointing out the issues in a smaller kids' science project. I didn't mean to be mean....

THE DELTA V REQUIREMENTS TO THE MOON WERE WRONG!! THEY HAD A CLIP-ART ROCKET AND NOT THE SATURN V!! WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO?!!!

[Columbia]

When you find yourself drawing Mk1-2 Command Pods on your notebook.

When you associate items with their KSP counterparts. In that case, I'm seeing Mk3 cockpits everywhere in the airport, and seeing a rover in a road, and seeing bunches of struts in buildings.

When you forget about breakfast to play KSP.

When you're having dilemmas about starting construction on that dream space station, or send Kerbals to Minmus.

[Byronicus]

when you read this entire thread and think, can I remember any of these i dont do

[juvilado]

When you go to bed and can´t sleep because you can´t stop thinking about orbital mechanics, gravity assists, SSTO vessels and how to combine all those things in your next mission.

[Rath]

When your Grandma knows orbital mechanics and you get grounded for killing jeb bob and bill