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

[Eli13]

I totally did. My ford windstar is secretly space ship two. Don't tell virgin galactic.

 

[jimblah]

Cockroach on Campus

When I lived on my sailboat I would sometimes terminate my slip rental and would cruise the Channel Islands. When I needed to fill my water tanks, recharge my batteries without running the generator, or get supplies I knew marinas where I would dock under cover of darkness and be gone by morning. Its called 'cockroaching'.

Right now I don't have internet at home. At night I'll find a place on campus where I can plug in and have wireless access (I have to use my student id to log on). Fortunately I'm friends with Campus Police and janitorial staff, and this is a temporary situation. I've stayed till dawn many times learning about and running Orbiter beneath the stars.

:lol:

 

[Columbia42]

When I lived on my sailboat I would sometimes terminate my slip rental and would cruise the Channel Islands. When I needed to fill my water tanks, recharge my batteries without running the generator, or get supplies I knew marinas where I would dock under cover of darkness and be gone by morning. Its called 'cockroaching'.

Right now I don't have internet at home. At night I'll find a place on campus where I can plug in and have wireless access (I have to use my student id to log on). Fortunately I'm friends with Campus Police and janitorial staff, and this is a temporary situation. I've stayed till dawn many times learning about and running Orbiter beneath the stars.

:lol:

That may be one of the most commercial-worthy Orbiter stories I've ever heard...

 

[Eli13]

:lol:

 

[jimblah]

The Orbiter Bug

That may be one of the most commercial-worthy Orbiter stories I've ever heard...

I've definitely been infected. I'm willing to wager that when I start submitting bug reports to Wine that one of the developers there get's infected too. Someone there will have to install and run it before I am through. :lol:

 

[Eli13]

haha nice.

 

[Sky Captain]

When you have an irresistable urge to turn volume to max when you launch a big rocket in Orbiter.
When you install 10 000 watt audio system in your tiny bedroom to make rocket engine sounds more realistic.

 

[Keatah]

I did some experiments with bass. Basically a wood plate being hit with a coil and weight, like an electromagnetic jackhammer. this drew 4700+ watts if I last remember right. All for low frequencies for turbine and blast sound type sounds.

 

[Arthur Dent]

when you scan through the Wikipedia page of the space shuttle and see the section "Orbiter add-ons" and think that they actually list the space shuttle fleet and the space shuttle ultra add-ons for Orbiter.

 

[agentgonzo]

...when you watch the well-known historical footage from the Gagarin's launch and realize that the footage is from the wrong launch

When you're watching "When we left Earth" and note that they use the audio clip of "Inboard Engine Cutoff" during the wrong set of missions (The use it in, I think, Mercury when it's talking about the inboard engine of the Saturn V SI-C stage) during ascent.

 

[Columbia42]

In the BBC miniseries, Space Race, during the scene where the LM and CSM are orbiting the moon they play the 1201, 1202 program alarms audio from just minutes before landing.

 

[Nazban]

When you're watching "When we left Earth" and note that they use the audio clip of "Inboard Engine Cutoff" during the wrong set of missions (The use it in, I think, Mercury when it's talking about the inboard engine of the Saturn V SI-C stage) during ascent.

Lolz i heard it once, thought it was my own imagination after playing too much of orbiter in a go(too much orbiter - more than 4 hrs in a go )

Since its also related to the topic, how many hours of playing orbiter do you all think is 'normal'??:lol:

 

[Columbia42]

For me it really depends. I'd say all told I play an average of one or two hours of Orbiter a day but that's not counting the time I spend developing addons which is decidedly way more than that.

 

[HAL9001]

5 hours the day :lol:

 

[iamwearingpants]

...when you play so dang hard that you can't even get an estimate on how much you fly.

 

[dougkeenan]

bzy flyng estmt ltr

 

[ky]

When you have an irresistable urge to turn volume to max when you launch a big rocket in Orbiter.

Guilty as charged.Drove my mom and my neighbors crazy.

 

[Grover]

when you notice that even the Shuttles can get from and to any point on earth in 2 hours... then try to test it in orbiter...

 

[Ross]

When you create an O: drive especially for Orbiter on your computer.

 

[diogom]

when you notice that even the Shuttles can get from and to any point on earth in 2 hours... then try to test it in orbiter...

Like when I tryed to get a Shuttle from KSC to NYC. :lol: I think I ended up landing on the North Pole. :facepalm:

...when even with a 38.5ºC fever, you still go to the window, on the outside's cold weather, to see an ISS sighting. (And also spend most of the day in OF, despite feeling terrible).
...when you reach your 100th CTD of the month.