What do you do during long burns?

[Pinduli]

I usually take to the internet and do miscellaneous things, and occasionally check back to see how far I am. What about you?

[Brotoro]

Monitor the pointing of the ship.

And listen to audiobooks.

Or eat a snack. Snacks are very kerbal.

[Kerbal01]

Herp around on the forums/spaceport untill their done.

[keanukeno21]

Wacth the kerbal's reaction's

[comham]

Check twitter on my phone. Same as taking a long hike in Arma 2/3

[Pinduli]

Wacth the kerbal's reaction's

Must be fun, I never launch manned missions beyond Kerbin. Only probes from Minmus and beyond.

[ninjakids]

I'm doing a long burn right now as im reading this.

[jocax188723]

Yep. About halfway to Jool, just doin' fine.

Just find stuff to do in the meantime, I suppose. It certainly doesn't diminish the fun.

[elkar]

Chat with ppl on KLF or just looking at their screenshots.

[StainX]

Meanwhile in my head planning new crafts/missions thinking about: "How would Scott Manley do this?"

[Bothersome]

Scouring the forums I visit, like now, got another 1.5 hours to go on this burn. Yes, I'm burning the Ions again.

[1of6Billion]

browse the forum and/or http://www.eatliver.com

[joppiesaus]

Looking at my ship, realizing how bored I am, and how ugly my ship is, and eating snacks.

But mostly, eating snacks.

[JonoRig]

I really wanted to put an immature response, but I wont bring the forums qualities so low

Usually stuff on phone (like now as I'm at work tho, not doing a burn) or on my tablet, or Xbox, tv... Or read

Also considering new ship designs that will never be built or missions which will never be flown

[leopardenthusiast]

I make absolutely sure that the ship doesn't drift off the maneuver node indicator at all, even for a moment, and that's it.

[SRV Ron]

My longest burns, several minutes, were to launch probes on a Voyager mission. Interestingly, the longest one was to send a probe into the sun. Due to spin issues on the rocket used for such missions, I used Kerbal's orientation to determine when to launch straight up to escape velocity, dawn launch for the Voyager mission, evening launch for the solar mission, then planned the final burn to achieve those objectives. Four stage launcher using onion asparagus setup to fuel second stage just reaches escape velocity at second stage burnout. Third stage achieved Voyager objective with 1/3 fuel expended and nearly all fuel for solar encounter.

A heavy nuclear engine is not required for either mission. One should consider it's weight when launching one to escape velocity compared to the lower efficiency of a much lighter engine of comparable power. That heavy engine does have a major effect on overall mass of probe ships and their performance.

[Vespasianus]

Mostly I read a book.

[Scotius]

Listening to music, browsing the forum, making tea, washing dishes...just random stuff needing this couple of minutes

[KerbMav]

Sounds like KSP will be the game that gives us back time for our RL while playing?

I did not leave Kerbins/Muns orbit yet, so mostly I am anxious if my fuel reserves are sufficient, my ship stays on course ...

[CtrlAltEL1TE]

During long burns I open a 2nd KSP client and try to find alternatives to using ion engines for my long distance probes

[Moon Goddess]

Last time I did a long burn to the outer system I left it running while I shaved my legs. Clearly this doesn't need to be done every time I have a long burn, which may partly explain why I spend so much time in LKO.

[Spartwo]

come here or watch something on youtube.

[flowen8]

I listen to this guy

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAmazingAtheist/videos

[Pinduli]

I listen to this guy

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAmazingAtheist/videos

I prefer PMrants. Its a bit less...biased.

[DerekL1963]

I usually take to the internet and do miscellaneous things, and occasionally check back to see how far I am. What about you?

Step out and have a smoke. Mess around on the forums, Facebook, and Slashdot. Read my email. Etc...