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

[Piper]

That's liable to freak people out severely.

You think that will freak out people? Dang you should hear some of the things I want to play over the intercom when briefing the passengers:

Me: Hello ladies and gentleman, this is your captor, ahhh, captain speaking. On our way to our destination of Calgary, we need to make a small diversion, to the lovely city of Kabul.

 

[earthorbit]

Me and a Friend always count down the time to end of the class like this:
Me: How long??
Him: Ohh.. about T-12 min

 

[jinglesassy]

Me and a Friend always count down the time to end of the class like this:
Me: How long??
Him: Ohh.. about T-12 min

NOO WHY DID THEY HAVE TO ABORT?!?! :lol: sry couldn't resist

 

[ikrase]

"Me and a Friend always count down the time to end of the class like this:
Me: How long??
Him: Ohh.. about T-12 min"

I have actually said "ok back to T=0" after an amusing messup at ballroom dance lessons. Then me and my partener (this was a nerd dance, but no Orbiter involved) missed the rest of the dance laughing.

 

[bwog]

When you look at the classifieds in your newspaper you see someone selling a Voyager, and become dissapointed when you find out it's just a Chrysler van.

 

[Izack]

...when you here your math teacher say "T-15" and then "guidance is internal" runs automatically through your mind. (Guilty!)
Or better yet...when you fully recite “T-15 seconds, guidance is internal. 12, 11, 10, 9, ignition sequence start, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, all engines running, liftoff! Liftoff at 32 minutes past the hour, liftoff of Apollo 11.” and then start crying. (Very nearly guilty...but I'm just a space-kid )

Or even better: ...when you read all 52 pages of a "you know you're addicted to Orbiter when..." thread!:rofl: Completely guilty!! Great thread, guys!

 

[rucinter]

When every morning opening my bedroom door that sounds like a decompression hatch.

When entering the living room and hearing my central heating running, sounding like a rocket engine (my PC is on for bonus effects, with all kind of led blinkering - router, speakers, mouse, HDD, etc).

When you ride a bike behind someone and try to do a rendezvous, that is running very close to him, your front wheel being at 5-10 cm apart from the back wheel of the bike in front of you and maintaining this formation for a while, without the one in front noticing and freaking out.

 

[Izack]

When you ride a bike behind someone and try to do a rendezvous, that is running very close to him, your front wheel being at 5-10 cm apart from the back wheel of the bike in front of you and maintaining this formation for a while, without the one in front noticing and freaking out.

When you then accidentally press the T button you installed on your bicycle and send the both of you spinning crazily into the outer solar system.

 

[count_volta]

When you waste hours trying to figure out how to get to the moon in Nassp instead of doing your homework.

When you finally get to the moon, see it in all its pixelated glory, and go showing your friends who couldn't care less."

When the words, space, planet, spaceship, space time continuum, etc triggers a sudden unstoppable urge to go play orbiter, and if you don't get your orbiter you are worse than a homeless person on cocaine.

When you hail this piece of Soviet under-funded junk.

 

[Artlav]

When you react to blasphemy against The Probe.

When you hail this piece of Soviet under-funded junk.

YOU DARE call the Mighty Probe a piece of junk? Hail Probe!

 

[Pablo49]

When you dream about the next mission to your space station.

Yeah, it's totally centrifuge time.

 

[ThatGuy]

While driving through Georgia and you see the exit for Brighton Rd... need I say more?

 

[markl316]

While driving through Georgia and you see the exit for Brighton Rd... need I say more?

Where in Georgia? That road sounds familiar.

 

[Arrowstar]

When you react to blasphemy against The Probe.

YOU DARE call the Mighty Probe a piece of junk? Hail Probe!

When you get up in arms about others insulting your love of a 1960s tin ca- err, space probe. :lol:

 

[rucinter]

When you are driving and the windshield is missing the HUD.

When you are driving as a copilot on a bumpy road and imagine that you are launching/reentering and you look for the ABORT handle.

When you are constantly comparing the available space in the front of a car with the living space of a Gemini capsule.

 

[Kyle]

When your girlfriend trips and falls into a spin you feel the need to click '5' on the numpad.

When you decide it necessary to do an RPM before you get home.

When you play Orbiter so much that whenever you see a meteor coming straight at you at 22,000 mph you think 'oh, its just going to bounce of into solar orbit'

 

[markl316]

When your girlfriend trips and falls into a spin you feel the need to click '5' on the numpad.

:rofl:

When you come home from college to visit your girlfriend, and you bring your hdmi cable to hook up orbiter to her 57 inch tv. And you actually follow through with that plan.

 

[ThatGuy]

Where in Georgia? That road sounds familiar.

I think I was near Tifton (Tampa, FL to Ellijay, GA is a very long drive; it all blends together)

 

[ThatGuy]

When you wake up abnormally early to watch the shuttle launch, use Google Earth to select the closest and best vantage point, and get excessively excited when you can actually hear the SRBs.

...and of course my first reaction was to post this

 

[Shadow Addict]

When you waste hours trying to figure out how to get to the moon in Nassp instead of doing your homework.

When you finally get to the moon, see it in all its pixelated glory, and go showing your friends who couldn't care less."

When the words, space, planet, spaceship, space time continuum, etc triggers a sudden unstoppable urge to go play orbiter, and if you don't get your orbiter you are worse than a homeless person on cocaine.

I'm guilty of all three! Man, I was so excited when I did Apollo 8 in vAGC last year (splashed down way off target, but I was only 45 minutes early!), and none of my friends cared at all. I really wish they could get into Orbiter.

Oh, and:

When you spend hours reading unintelligible documents on the NTRS just trying to glean a slightly better understanding of some arcane CSM system like the ORDEAL