You Know You're A Real Explorer When...

[JeffRyan]

You consider the Coalsack Nebula as 'almost home'.

 

[Fenric]

You return to inhabited space and want to go back out after less than an hour.

 

[Deepfriedmal]

The closer to inhabited space you get, the more nervous you become...

 

[Fenric]

You realize you'd get to your original destination a lot faster if you stopped looking at the galaxy map and saying "ooh, shiny..."

 

[Galten75]

When you load up your mobile phone with tv-series and movies before you start playing for dealing with those pesky 400 000ls Super Cruises

// G

 

[Kancro Vantas]

You dont get grinding because anything above Asp is pretty much an overkill. You do it for the rank...not for the credits!

 

[Eagle3]

When you're driving to work and a certain cloud during sunrise has you thinking that it would be a cool nebula to visit.

 

[Bacon Sarnie]

You open your fridge to make dinner and think "Not much left in, will have to return to populated space to stock up on food"

This actually happened

 

[Zulu Romeo]

You watch a movie trailer and wonder why your discovery scanner is frequently going off.

 

[EddyRockSteady]

You look skywards and you hear the disco scanner in your head start spooling up.......
.

 

[unite]

You find yourself circling the petrol station, keeping an eye on the engine temperature while trying to refuel.

 

[Cmdr PeryplusErithrea]

You know your an explorer when your local chat feed becomes your inner monologue

 

[Zenith]

You consider a neutron star to be an inconvenience rather than a hazard.

 

[Ulysses_W]

When you're totally alone on the other side of the Galaxy with many millions of credits worth of data and you don't want to come home.

 

[Dommarraa]

When you have an opinion in a "Delta Quadrant vs Gamma Quadrant" discussion

 

[Zieman]

When you have an opinion in a "Delta Quadrant vs Gamma Quadrant" discussion

Doesn't that make you a Trekkie, not an (E: D) Explorer?

 

[Agony_Aunt]

When your wife or kids start speaking to you and you get spooked because you thought you were alone in space.

 

[puca]

When you've been out so long, you forget how docking works!

 

[Ulysses_W]

When you've been out so long, you forget how docking works!

Indeed. I recently went into the Mac beta just to practice docking!

 

[Zulu Romeo]

You stay away from snowball fights.