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

[ar81]

When you read the news "UK housewives rule in online time" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7789494.stm) and you think it's Orbiter forums fault.:rofl:

 

[T.Neo]

...when you get this from your wife:

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Absolutely brilliant, tblaxland. Absolutely brilliant.

 

[Piper]

....when pork-chops take on a whole new meaning.

 

[doggie015]

...when you get this from your wife:

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
I vote this the best post in this thread so far!

:hesaid:

 

[Omhra]

TMAC300;
Flying to the moon real time is something I do most if not at all times... At my business I have an ORBITER machine always running a simulation... makes time tick more firmly.. that doesn't keep me from using other computers to fly more complex, time compressed missions... So I guess I am addicted too...

tblaxland;
I hurt from laughing... vacuumed... dear lord.

 

[James.Denholm]

...when you get this from your wife:

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
I vote this the best post in this thread so far!

Wait, you guys don't get e-mails like that? :lol:

That's the best post I've ever seen, tblaxland. Well done indeed!

 

[tblaxland]

That's the best post I've ever seen, tblaxland. Well done indeed!

OK, that post has been getting a lot more attention than I ever expected, so I have to come clean - it is not an entirely original work. I adapted it a little but it came to me from a serial emailer, who no doubt got it from someone else, and so on. Credit where credit is due. Those close to me know that I am far to busy writing code for Orbiter to come up with something that funny :lol:. Anyway, I'm glad you all liked it

 

[TSPenguin]

So your wife got this email from someone else before sending it to you?!

 

[mattberg]

All you know of Orbital Mechanics you learned at Orbiter.
Guilty.

You "simulate" Orbitermissons in your brain while trying to sleep, and you burn at reentry due to too high AOA.
Guilty.

Your first interplanetary flight was done without any TransX/IMFD etc.
Guilty (from Jupiter to Earth, just took 5 refuelings of each 150.000t).

You try to run Orbiter on any new or old PC, not depending how old it is.
Guilty.

You try to convince your physicsteacher to use Orbiter in celestial mechanics.
Guilty (and he will try to use it ).

 

[T.Neo]

All you know of Orbital Mechanics you learned at Orbiter.

Also guilty.

Your first interplanetary flight was done without any TransX/IMFD etc.
Guilty (from Jupiter to Earth, just took 5 refuelings of each 150.000t).

Guilty I guess, I used transfer and did a plane change on the way.

You try to run Orbiter on any new PC, not depending how old it is.
Guilty.

Kind of guilty.
Really guilty when you try to run Orbiter on any PC you can get you're hands on...

EDIT:
I once almost got caught trying to install Orbiter on a laptop to see how well it ran on Vista

 

[Artlav]

When you move your shopping cart in the mall by impulse logic, like walking ahead to brake and pushing perpendicular to make a fast and tight turn.

 

[T.Neo]

You know you're addicted to Orbiter when you make your least favourite politicians as Ummus and crach then in a DGIV on the surface of Titan.

...When they survive, and you leave them to die of cold and lack of oxygen on the surface :evil:

 

[astrosammy]

...when you have following partitions:

 

[T.Neo]

...when you have following partitions:

:lol:

 

[Zatnikitelman]

When you do more Orbiter work on your school laptop than school work!
When Orbiter invades your dreams.

 

[T.Neo]

When Orbiter invades your dreams.

Guilty.
Worse, when you think of Orbiter during those half-asleep moments, and come up with great ideas for it, only to forget them once you wake up. :dry:

...when you have following partitions:

When you realise that you'll have to get an EHD to store the stuff you do for Orbiter.
When you get a backup drive especially for that drive...

 

[EliNaut]

~When Orbiter is at the top of your start menu, and no matter how much time you spend on other programs, it stays there.

~When the pilot of your plane becomes unconscious and you volunteer to land the plane.

"Do you have a license?"
" *LAUGH* Sir, I play Orbiter. Who needs a license?? Nonsense I tell you!"

~When you re-wire your car with a joystick and throttle axis.

~When you pedal very hard on your bicycle trying to achieve escape velocity. That is, until a car cruises right by you casually, and kills your morale.

~When you develop the compulsive urge to strap a rocket to everything in sight to see how high it flies.

 

[Donamy]

When you are trying to get the last part of an animation done, but your best friend knocks at the door, so you pretend you're not home.

 

[Ark]

When you finish reading a good sci-fi novel, then start writing scenarios for it.

 

[T.Neo]

When you finish reading a good sci-fi novel, then start writing scenarios for it.

When you think about writing you own sci-fi novel, and you make scenarios for it.

Guilty.