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

[MattG]

...when you're over 25k LY from Sol, and the last 6 "interesting" systems you visited were already tagged by Jackie Silver.


Makes a change from Allitnil, I suppose.

 

[GabberGandalf]

...when you go back to Sol and call Barnard's Loop your runway light

 

[Lya Naylo]

... you have 15k LY left to travel on your way back home and it feels like you're just next door

 

[Jhyrryl]

You make a 50,000 LY detour while on Distant Worlds, so you can do the A* Challenge to catch back up.

...then fall asleep at the stick 2/3rds of the way there, and while deeply embarrassed, think it's no big deal to have to do it again.

 

[Kerenn]

...then fall asleep at the stick 2/3rds of the way there, and while deeply embarrassed, think it's no big deal to have to do it again.

I smell a story about emergency stop.

 

[Hell Razor5543]

...you start wondering if Black Holes are really wormholes to other parts of the Galaxy (or Universe), and, if they are, how to prove it. Once you have, you start wondering how to use them!

 

[Jhyrryl]

I smell a story about emergency stop.

Indeed you do.

 

[CMDR Swift Arrow]

When you feel the need to map out an entire section of space, and you get space mad enough to write a guide on it

 

[disorganise]

You try to scoop roundabouts in RL

 

[Jhyrryl]

"Ooh, ooh! What's that? Oh, it's a spec of dust on my monitor."

 

[SpaceMonkeyz]

When your weekly RL forays with your friend and telescopes out of the city(light pollution) start getting called "Trips out of the bubble"

 

[MazTr]

When you watch a Discovery channel 'Universe' episode and remember the time you was there in that Nebula.

 

[Sooden]

when you get back from a far rim trip and go right back out on a 18Kly trip just to check the colour of a star

 

[Alex Brentnall]

When you try to land on a 6G world because it would make an awesome screenshot.

 

[Grav]

When you have to run the training mission again to remember how to dock.

 

[ronin677]

When you realise you have forgotten how to use all the controls of your combat ship parked at Sol

 

[Sniffy75]

When you can read every page of this thread and relate to each post.

 

[Sapporo]

I considered "almost home" as NGC 6231 BVF 50.

It's there

http://puu.sh/nDhSA/2276820b13.jpg

 

[SpaceMonkeyz]

I HAD to make a meme for this one:

When you get back to the bubble and enter an occupied system:

 

[Fyrd Judge]

When your maximum jump range is 16ly and your on the other side of the Galaxy.