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

[Geschosskopf]

1 hour ago, adsii1970 said:

And you notice the adapter has a mini docking port...

Sabash, Adsii-huzoor! +1 (and extra credit if you can cite the reference)

[Matuchkin]

When you actually think you can get something to space via scrap metal, your school's chemistry storage, and money.

I'm getting more and more stupid by the minute.

[Grenartia]

6 hours ago, V8jester said:

Oh I thought it was an over. Except every time the red light came on, on one of the 3 I had. All I got was a shiny coaster

Coaster? I thought that was an aluminum frisbee. You're telling me I've been bragging to my friends about my aluminum frisbee collection all these years, and all I had were coasters?

[mattssheep4]

On May 22, 2013 at 8:19 PM, magnemoe said:

Worse, far worse if you has to remind yourself that the Oberth effect don't work on turnabouts.

 

On May 22, 2013 at 11:41 AM, LeonG17 said:

When you wonder why the space agencies haven't started use mods yet.

Yes to both of these.

Also when you find yourself explaining what radial and anti-radial burns do to your friend who's a physics major.

[Grenartia]

28 minutes ago, mattssheep4 said:

 

Yes to both of these.

Also when you find yourself explaining what radial and anti-radial burns do to your friend who's a physics major.

As a physics major, I had to give a physics-related presentation to my class and the professor (its a 100-level class, so nothing too complicated). I basically just did a video of me explaining the bare basics of orbital mechanics. Literally just me explaining why you have to do a gravy turn, and what burning prograde and retrograde do, and noting the relationship between velocity and altitude.

[insert_name]

when you get angry every time the producer of a tv show/movie doesn't know basic physics

[Temstar]

You know you play too much KSP when walking down the hallway into a room you find yourself grabbing the door frame to perform a gravitational slingshot to curve your trajectory through the door.

[Matuchkin]

When you highlight text from wikipedia to copy and adapt it into a paragraph for a powerpoint presentation, and get surprised when "quote this" doesn't appear. You think about how to copy it now that the "quote this" feature's gone, then, a split second later, realise that you can just Ctrl-C+ Ctrl-V.

[Tantalus]

When you dream about KSP at night, and in your dream you find the design mistake in your lander you built a day ago, wake up, grap your laptop and fix it

[Puggonaut]

Its 4.07am an your saying to yourself "i'll go to bed after i've landed safely"

[cubinator]

When you can rendezvous two ships using only the tier 1 tracking station easily.

[Emoss55]

when you find yourself making a list of science fiction authors who don't completely ignore orbital mechanics. (I can count them on the fingers of one hand)

[livefree75]

On ‎1‎/‎7‎/‎2016 at 7:00 AM, Temstar said:

You know you play too much KSP when walking down the hallway into a room you find yourself grabbing the door frame to perform a gravitational slingshot to curve your trajectory through the door.

I somewhat do this with stair railings. If I'm going up, I grab the railing and pull myself inward to accelerate myself, so I basically don't have to do any work with my legs climbing the first few steps.

[Bev7787]

[Columbia]

When you get astonished at the lack of a Navball and UI in real life.

[Kuansenhama]

When you're riding your bike and consider a 48-7s and some Oscar-B fuel tanks might help you go faster.

When you see a picture of the ISS with the space shuttle and soyuz and your first thought is how bad that probably lags.

 

[cubinator]

On 1/15/2016 at 9:26 PM, Kuansenhama said:

When you're riding your bike and consider a 48-7s and some Oscar-B fuel tanks might help you go faster.

When you see a picture of the ISS with the space shuttle and soyuz and your first thought is how bad that probably lags.

 

The real reason space travel is so hard isn't because rockets are difficult to design, its because space agencies need to figure out how to keep rockets less laggy or they won't be controllable. NASA will probably have to switch to 64 bit for manned Mars missions, that's what makes them so dangerous.

Edited March 27, 2016 by cubinator

[Captain Farzdex]

When you watch episodes of the old series "The Honeymooners" and you feel the urge to name your Mun rocket "Alice."

[GregA]

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[Stewcumber]

When you get a cheap W10 atom-CPU tablet and the first thing you do is try to play KSP on it :/

[Bluegillbronco2]

When you go into the Lego section of your local supermarket and see a Lego set with 500 parts and think "wow that would cause a bunch or lag."

[Tantalus]

When you try to rebuild your mun base with your sons lego bricks.

When your girlfriend, complaining about above, secretly gets the nickname "kraken"

[Bev7787]

When the car just makes it to the petrol station with 16km left in its tank you don't say its running out of fuel you say its running on fumes

[MagicFireCaster]

you can't sleep due to mission planning still going in your head 

[DrMarlboro]

You wanna know how you really know you've been playing ksp too long? when you look at this:

and think "that's a lot of parts in physics range" and then face palm.