If you could a kerbal...

[Vohjiin]

but... but... you'll reappear at the astronaut complex if you die....

[katateochi]

I might. If life is anything like our launch trailers, I, as a Kerbal, would still have the ability to play KSP. In that case, all is right with the world.

This is a good point. In light of that, I'd sign up to be the "rocket safety inspection officer", it's an essentially redundant post that means I'd spend my days playing KSP on high end machines and sitting on the beach drinking cocktails and watching the fireworks from KSC.

[Werwolf]

Sitting on the top of 1000 tonnes of liquid fuel and oxidizer slapped together with parts from reputable companies like "Jebediah Kerman's Junkyard and Spaceship Parts Co.", and parachutes that were "found lying by the side of the road"? What's to worry about?

Hehe... like John Glenn, thinking to himself before his famous launch that the rocket he was sitting on was built by the lowest bidders...

[syfyguy64]

AS long as I'm used by KurtJmac or Solar Gamer who takes things serious, and rarely kills kerbals.

But don't let me see whackjob.

[SpacedCowboy]

Ok, We all do a little role playing but,,,,Damn!

[Fr8monkey]

But don't let me see whackjob.

He only kills computers...

[smysha]

Meeeh... Yes, if it will be Scott Manley's Kerbin, where Mission Controll really cares about kerbals fate. I don't want to be stuck in space without water, oxygen and snacks for years =_=

[Jas1126]

I'm extremely claustrophobic so there's no way I could handle the missions... How I would love to see those planets in real life though..

[The Destroyer]

One life: No. Kerbals have clone bays, remember?

Player controled: Noooooooooooooooooo

Time: Snacks.

[Geschosskopf]

I don't think Kerbals perceive themselves as individuals. They seem rather to be mobile sensory/manipulative/reproductive organs of a vast, planet-carpeting fungus. This huge fungal mass is what makes most of Kerbin's surface green and is the brains of the outfit. Kerbals just stand there forever doing nothing unless commanded into action by this fungal mat. Sure, Kerbals all have individual names but if you actually translate them from the Old Kerbish, they all mean things analogous to "right big toe" or "left armpit".

Thus, to be an individual Kerbal is to lose one's consciousness and free will, and to become no more than a skin cell, easily lost and just as easily replaced in daily activity. That's not something I'd want to try. However, being the fungal mat controlling the whole shebang has its attractions. You'd be effectively immortal, would control an entire planet with the ability to spread yourself onto most others, would learn much of what's in the cosmos, and could entertain yourself making explody rockets

[Hans Dorn]

Now I'm weirded out.

Good job

[cantab]

He only kills computers...

Whackjob's probably one of the safer people to be in the space program of. His launches take so long in the real world that he can't make as many of them.

[Floppster]

snip

I think you forgot that he also sometimes destroy Kerbin.

[kmMango]

Never Mind

Edited April 27, 2014 by kmMango

[xSCMx]

Advantages that kerbals have over humans: Live forever

Disadvantages: Can never close their eyes(do they even have eyelids?), considered expendable, extreme boredom from having nothing to do when not piloting spacecraft. Also no cities on Kerbin so far.

I think I would stay human if I got offered a chance to be a kerbal.

[Mitchz95]

Only if I was on Scott Manley's game. I like being alive

Somewhere, Enming Kerman is giving you the stinkeye.

[Taki117]

I would become a Kerbal only if I were the one controlling myself. (That could have been worded so much worse) I haven't lost a kerbal yet on my current save.

[RSF77]

I accidentally a kerbal.

[problemecium]

*reads thread title*

I just accidentally a Kerbal.

EDIT: Slow-motion ninja'd. I second the above poster.

ANOTHER EDIT:

Somewhere, Enming Kerman is giving you the stinkeye.

Don't forget Joeger!

[xrayfishx]

If that player played like me, I would definitely a kerbal. I have an LES on every spacecraft I build and I rarely build spaceplanes. And I always test them without kerbals, they all have a probe core. My kerbals stay alive, but with how my real life is going, I would a kerbal even if they didn't.

[Boris_T_Roach]

I'd happily be a kerbal....... but only working in a KSP controlled by a player like.......... me for example

Who tests all his rockets/rovers before launching a live crew, who wants to make sure he has a ship capable of getting back from the surface of Eve, who builds interplanetary ships that have a 7 kerbal crew, and enough living space for 19 and finally cares enough to send a rescue ship for that poor lost crew that had a engine bitten off out near Jool and ended up on a 20 year orbit beyond eeloo

The rest of you are going down on the list of those who've committed crimes against kerbalkind*

Boris

*except WhackJob who commits crimes against his computer

[Hello moto]

I'd a kerbal only if I had unlimited lives. I'd even endure four year interplanetary trips.