You know you're addicted to Orbiter when...

[James.Denholm]

Not only do you check the latest posts on orbiter forum with your Blackberry while "taking care of business," you also post about it on the forum with your Blackberry...

When you make a version of Orbiter for the Blackberry or iPhone so you don't need to lug around your laptop when you want to get your Orbiter "high" (well, it does say addiction...).

When you buy a Blackberry or iPhone just so you can use the new Orbiter Blackberry or iPhone version.

 

[RangerPL]

When playing baseball, you calculate the Delta-V you need to give the ball to hit a home run.

@James Denholm:

Guilty. Kinda. I sometimes go on here from my PSP.

 

[n122vu]

When you make a version of Orbiter for the Blackberry or iPhone so you don't need to lug around your laptop when you want to get your Orbiter "high" (well, it does say addiction...).

When you buy a Blackberry or iPhone just so you can use the new Orbiter Blackberry or iPhone version.

:rofl:

Honestly, I'd be happy if I could just get an open-source pdf reader for my Blackberry so I could pull up spacecraft manuals instead of alt-tabbing...

Hmmm....wonder if I could use OIPC to get my Blackberry to communicate with Orbiter via the USB cable so I could display an external MFD on it...... (I think this also qualifies as a sign of the aforementioned addiction... LOL)

 

[chris772]

When you crash or spin uncontrollably and restart Orbiter to redo what you've done

guilty...dont know how that pretains to an addiction but..some of my own:

...when your driving on the freeway and attempt to sync with the nearest semi

...when your BBQ'ing on your grill for 3 hours (or so as the recipie calls for) and yelling "Main Engine cutoff, burn complete" when the timer goes off. Guilty.

 

[James.Denholm]

When playing baseball, you calculate the Delta-V you need to give the ball to hit a home run.

@James Denholm:

Guilty. Kinda. I sometimes go on here from my PSP.

When I "borrowed" my father's PSP (didn't have an iPod at the time [Do now!] I did that nightly. The PSP realy sucks for web browsing...)

When you crash or spin uncontrollably and restart Orbiter to redo what you've done

That's not the sign of addiction, that's just the sign that you actualy want to do something properly. I'm not very good at Orbiter (just very active on the forums, I suppose), so I do that a lot. And I mean A LOT.

When you sleep and dream about orbiter and about creating orbiter addons

Sign of a fertile imagination!

:rofl:

Honestly, I'd be happy if I could just get an open-source pdf reader for my Blackberry so I could pull up spacecraft manuals instead of alt-tabbing...

Hey, that gives me an idea! iPods have a notes funtion, where you go into the extras tab and select notes. If you have any text files in the Notes folder on your iPod (refer to the features guide on the Apple site for more info), you can read them!
Oh, my, god, I just had a brain wave. Let's all go to :hooters:!
Better idea! Converting each page of the manuals into jpegs! YES! Then I'll be able to VIEW THEM ON MY IPOD!

Finaly, a good idea. My family has been trying for generations, you know. It all started with my great-great-great uncle Baldric, who thought that if you owned the bullet with your name on it, you wouln't get shot...

Hmmm....wonder if I could use OIPC to get my Blackberry to communicate with Orbiter via the USB cable so I could display an external MFD on it...... (I think this also qualifies as a sign of the aforementioned addiction... LOL)

That, my friend, is... Brilliant!

Now, I wonder if I hack my iPod to controll iTunes, so I don't need to alt-tab every time I want to change songs...

guilty...dont know how that pretains to an addiction but..some of my own:

...when your driving on the freeway and attempt to sync with the nearest semi

Isn't that suicidal? As in, getting crushed underneath the tires?

Then again, if you mean driving into the back of an open semi, then the casual observer could mistake you for a Bond, Spy Hunter, or Knight Rider fan.

...when your BBQ'ing on your grill for 3 hours (or so as the recipie calls for) and yelling "Main Engine cutoff, burn complete" when the timer goes off. Guilty.

Guilty!

 

[Arrowstar]

...when your BBQ'ing on your grill for 3 hours (or so as the recipie calls for) and yelling "Main Engine cutoff, burn complete" when the timer goes off. Guilty.

I had the distinct urge the other day to mutter "Nominal MECO, OMS-1 not required" as I took something out of the oven.

 

[joeybigO]

okay I wasn't going to share this, but yesterday I was teaching the kids words like Monomethyl Hydrazine, and UnsymetricalDimethyl Hydrazine.

And when they went to the bathroom I was doing a count down and at 3 seconds I said, "we have an abort!".

That didn't go over very well....:dry:

 

[nasakid]

i am guilty of this: i press F1 in FSX to get to my cockpit

Originally Posted by Yuren
When you sleep and dream about orbiter and about creating orbiter addons

I am guilty of this

 

[AstroCam]

When you walk down a hallway, stop and say "BEEP, Translation" as you sidestep into the nearest doorway (I've actually done this!)

You REALLY ride the clutch in your driving instructors car during lessons, because coasting and using your momentum/gravity to stop and engage the handbrake on a steep hill is so awesome and 'orbiter-esque'

You fail 1st year Calculus at University, but you can fly around fine in orbiter, and even attempt to calculate your delta-v, etc. using a pen and paper - even though this is the same type of maths you failed!

Luv this thread

 

[nasakid]

I had the distinct urge the other day to mutter "Nominal MECO, OMS-1 not required" as I took something out of the oven.

Do that all the time

"Okay kids, we're going to make a stop at this rest stop here, let me just speed time up a bit... Whoops... Well, we're out of fuel and spinning frantically towards the center of the galaxy. Who wants to play another game of I Spy?"

LOL

When you contact Fernbank museum and see how much it would cost to rent the IMAX theater for a day to experience orbiter on a 50 foot x 72 foot screen with 12000 watts of sound.

I've considered doing that, but with a planetarium instead.

wanted to do that for a long time

 

[SlyCoopersButt]

When you replace Dawn's default ion engine sound with that of a TIE fighter and brave the asteroids from a scenary generator in the belt and pretend it's the Star Wars movie

 

[Cobalt]

You REALLY ride the clutch in your driving instructors car during lessons, because coasting and using your momentum/gravity to stop and engage the handbrake on a steep hill is so awesome and 'orbiter-esque'

When I used to have a BMW, I would do stuff like that, accelerate downhill to see if I could coast back up the other way. Good times!

 

[Kyle]

I tend to get really upset when an Addon I have been very looking forward to CTD's, I mean, teary eye'd upset.

 

[Lunchbox]

You are truly addicted to Orbiter when you re-create New Horizons to Pluto. In real time.

I once did a real-time "mission" in the DG IV once. One orbit around the Earth.
my experiment was the effects of Sodium Bicarbonate in vinegar, food was a tin of tuna fish. Drinks were water in plastic bags with a straw. To simulate photography, I got out the digicam and took a few snaps of the Earth in the screen. Fortunately it was only 90 minutes so I didn't have to use the potty.

 

[unussapiens]

I did that with Vostok 1, I even managed to notice it was time to land.

 

[Pilot7893]

When you sleep and dream about orbiter and about creating orbiter addons

OK, once. When I first found out about Orbiter

 

[Zatnikitelman]

When you've committed Tsiolkovsky's equation to memory just to work on an addon!
And when you can correctly spell Tsiolkovsky without using Google or any other aids!

 

[Pilot7893]

teehee you said aids

 

[silent_protagonist]

When you've committed Tsiolkovsky's equation to memory just to work on an addon!
And when you can correctly spell Tsiolkovsky without using Google or any other aids!

Lol guilty.

 

[James.Denholm]

When you've committed Tsiolkovsky's equation to memory just to work on an addon!
And when you can correctly spell Tsiolkovsky without using Google or any other aids!

You know your NOT addicted when you wonder who the hell Zat's talking about. (Guilty)

You know you ARE addicted when you look up Tsiolkovsky in Wikipedia. (Guilty)