What was your most humbling moment in KSP

[psyper]

My most humbling moment in KSP:

Building a pyramid sized rocket consuming all of Kerbins fuel, planning a interplanetary visit to Jool and back. Perfect gravity assist and throttle full open with the most immense engines, looking at my trajectory on the map.... Man, space is mind-boggingly big, not even halfway there.

"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." -HHGTTG

[Jas1126]

I feel a bit disappointed that I cannot relate to this thread. Being a space nut since I was a child kind of spoiled me. KSP offered nothing shocking or awe inspiring. Study VY Canis Majoris, for instance, and you'll know what I mean. Nothing compares.

[theend3r]

I feel a bit disappointed that I cannot relate to this thread. Being a space nut since I was a child kind of spoiled me. KSP offered nothing shocking or awe inspiring. Study VY Canis Majoris, for instance, and you'll know what I mean. Nothing compares.

"shocking or awe inspiring" <> humbling. Realizing your smallness and stupid overconfidence is.

[psyper]

I feel a bit disappointed that I cannot relate to this thread. Being a space nut since I was a child kind of spoiled me. KSP offered nothing shocking or awe inspiring. Study VY Canis Majoris, for instance, and you'll know what I mean. Nothing compares.

I thought I was a space nut until I started playing KSP. I've watched documentaries, visited Kennedy Space Centre a few times, study the stars and even got a cheap telescope. Since playing KSP I can't stop looking up at the night sky, I see the alignment of the planets to the point where I can work out the inclination of the earth, I've visited every shuttle that I'm in the same State as - 3 so far (being in the UK that is pretty good going), I have subscribed to every half decent facebook page on iss, space, astronomy etc and have watched the iss flyby countless times, watch esa launches live and even streamed nasa tv during eva's. I've never been more hooked than ever. When I read about cassini and rosetta I think - what the heck was younger me doing missing all these awesome launches etc!

[TheFlyingPigs]

What humbles me is when you land an asteroid, and you put your kerbal next to him. He looks so small, and then you think the comparison to real life, then asteroids to planets, then planets to suns. Then I think about atoms and protons and neutrons and I think to myself 'Huh, I really am made of star-stuff'

[Higgs]

Just want to chime back in: it says a lot about a game, an indie game especially if it can humble you and then teach you so much more.