Times when you wish you were taping this.

[Stranded]

So I just had a roll out of the chair laughing moment. I set up my abort sequence on my newest rocket and loaded in a Kerbal to give it a test. Got it up to about 1500M, and hit the abort button. Everything worked beautifully, until... I had placed the three chutes on the fuel unit for RBS which was located just below the capsule. On top of the capsule I had one of those multiple docking port thingys. Everything was falling along just fine until the chutes fully deployed. Then the center of balance shifted and I watched as the whole contraption tilted to the side and the capsule separated from the RBS fuel tank and slid right off the edge. The absolutely hilarious part was after the capsule hit the ground and exploded here came the fuel tank gently gliding to the ground under three chutes.

I wish I had taped it. So how often do you have those Whoops?!? moments?

[alex the killa]

http://www.twitch.tv/haha_same_yolo/c/2332989

Fortunately one time I was taping it...

[Aragosnat]

Quite a few times. Once when my Can Lander had chutes above it on another part. Was blissfully unaware of what was about to hapen when the chutes fully opened as normally nothing bad ever happened when I hade them above. Needless to say when they opened the can lander part went down minus its top section, one of those WTF moments. Luckly the Lander section landed upon its SAS and Monopropelent tank, both of which where destroyed but saved the lander and its crew from death. With the top part drifting down. Have screen shoots on steam. Just dont have steam on this pc to go and post them from.

[Xacktar]

I used to keep my twitch software around when playing just for that reason. So many random silliness in this game... love it.

OMG, Alex.. the ending of the video got me. Your crazy surprised scream made me LOL so hard.

I caught one of those special moments as well... http://www.twitch.tv/xacktar/c/3065425

The crash lagged my computer soo much I decided to build smaller after that thing.

[Depth]

I was in the Jool system for the first time a few days ago with a science probe. I didn't think much about it and I was happy when I got the SOI change, so didn't notice I was entering a retrograde orbit. I circularized low around Jool and did some science. Then I thought I'd visit one of the moons and see them for myself. Made a node and wow! That was easy. So I zoomed in for the SOI change and Vall sped by me like lightning. This puzzled me a bit, and when I zoomed out and saw the massive, skewed, elliptical orbit I realized I was going retrograde. I was hoping to land somewhere but that was definitely out of the question. My orbit extended over half the moons on the periapsis side and four times as long on the apoapsis side, so I thought I could get some science by randomly stumbling into a moon. I got one SOI change (that wreaked havoc with my Jool orbit) and started waiting for the next one. By the time I noticed I HAD a SOI change it was too late, and passed over it at maximum timewarp.

My probe then promptly left the Jool system, going escape velocity from Kerbol.

Having this episode on tape wouldn't be so interesting. But I really wish I had my reaction on cam. I imagine I pulled off a good Kim Jong-Un face

[Eric S]

I've only had one time I really wished I was recording things.

I was testing an escape pod for use on my space station. It was pretty simple. A hitchhiker pod, a probe pod, RCS and RCS thrusters, a battery, sepratrons, and parachutes.

First test, I learned that the hitchhiker pod is a bit on the fragile side, everything worked fine until the actual touchdown, at which time the hitchiker pod blew up. Tried it again with more radial parachutes, and this time it splashed down fine. Decided I wanted to make sure that it was safe for a ground landing as well, so I tested it again.

Everything was going fine. It came down, parachutes deployed, and the escape pod slowed down to a nice slow descent, and landed. On the side of a hill. The RCS tank was on the bottom, so the whole pod fell over, at which point it started to roll down the hill. I figured the radial parachutes or sepratrons would stop it. Nope, those got ripped right off. It starts rolling faster... and faster. I'm wondering how long it's going to take to stop rolling, though at least it's rolling towards a valley rather than the coastline. Then, just as it hits the bottom of the hill, it either spun too fast or hit a bump, and the hitchhiker pod explodes. Again. At this point I was laughing so hard I couldn't even begin to work on the redesign.

[Taleric]

I am running kerbal economy and remote tech 2 climbing through the tech tree.

It was time to head for Duna. I rigged a dish probe to leave in orbit and a Viking style lander to deposit unconnected (had to retract long range antenna on entry!)

Going well I had a close call on bingo fuel just getting satellite into orbit and lander on "crash course".

About to retract the panels and antenna when, no connection, WHAT!?! Thirty min till atmosphere I rush back to kerbin, geostationary satellite, not so stationary, has slipped out of position! I rush another up and regained connection just in time to button-up the lander for entry.

The probe parachutes in beautifully intact and the Duna satellite does a close flyby to wake it up.

Can't wait for the remote tech 2 flight computer and delay implementation, the pinical of my KSP fun!

[Mr. Rogue Ace]

My Kraken bug: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/37109-Easter-Hunt-%28no-spoilers-though%29-%28picture-heavy%29

But the funny thing was, I WAS TAPING IT

But the video is slow for the same reason why the textures are crap.

[GoodSirMortimer]

Not necessarily funny per se, but still a moment I wished I had recorded.

A friend of mine, still new to the game, couldn't land on Mun. To find out whether he was lacking in the rocket designing department or the piloting one, he sent me his craft file for his most successful ship iteration. I got there in his ship but botched a bit of the burn and so it looked like I was going to run out of fuel before I landed.

Sure enough, at an altitude of about 5 km, it became apparent I was going to run out of fuel. I used the rest of what I had reducing my horizontal velocity to as little as possible and then EVA'd Jeb. I managed to guide him down safely using the RCS jetpack for the rest of the fall, about 2 or 3 km if I remember correctly.

So that's how I MacGyver'ed my way into safely landing a kerbal on Mun with a rocket that couldn't. Well, I say safely but in truth Jeb probably would've broken his legs if he had bones. I wished I had recorded it because I was pretty proud of managing that rescue. I've tried it once before, but the horizontal velocity was too high and the hapless kerbal turned to dust the minute he hit the surface

[Katve]

I did three backflips between first touchdown and safe landing while doing standard landing to Mun. It was very basic lander design at it was like 4 time using same design so it was pretty unexcepted

[TriggerAu]

I got carried away and spent waaaay too long building an overengineered asparagus staged rocket, got it all to the launchpad ready to go. Throttled up, and... realised I'd messed up the staging so it basically obliterated itself in all directions. When the explosions cleared there were still the lit outside rockets attached to the launch clamps straining to get going. so funny and I still see it in my head

[Xacktar]

LOL, these are great.

[SkyRender]

Long ago, back in caveman times, I managed to get a rocket gimbal-locked in a donut-shaped flight, perfectly level with the ground and about 500m over the KSC. I nabbed a solitary screenshot of it that I can no longer find. Such a tragic loss...