Here's my entry!! This video was lots of fun to make, (had a few hiccups along the way as well) and I'm very happy with the result! Tyvm for creating this challenge!

Looks like Bluesky only embeds one of the links into the post...
Anyway, Scott Buckley's music is so beautiful and especially fits if you're out exploring the galaxy in ED!

In general I feel like I'm terrible at coming up with names for my ships, so they quite often end up not being named! But here's a couple that are not too bad. :)

So you're out exploring, far far away from the bubble and all civilisation! You land on a planet to collect biological samples and wander away from the ship, so it flies away. Not to worry! You can just recall it later.

After a while you finally successfully have all the samples you need!! Time to recall the ship!

As the ship comes into land, you here your low suit power warning, and just as the ship is about to land, you get another warning that you hull is below 50%, then 25%! In that split second the ship explodes right before you eyes and you are left stranded in the middle of nowhere, dying from suit power loss.

I had something similar to the above happen where I was out exploring, collected biologicals and recalled my ship. As I was headed towards it, it suddenly just exploded for no reason right in front of me as I stared in complete shock and horror! I'm asuming it was a glitch with the landing system that just kept raming the ship into the ground at a spot that wasn't landable, so I quit the game and sent a support ticket. Thankfully Fdev were able to help recover the ship since that wasn't supposed to happen lol. I was quite worried for a sec though, thinking I was going to lose all the exploration data I had collected! All in all it was quite an amusing experience.

I had these two ideas, not sure which is more feasible, so I'll mention them both:

Funniest timing that players have had while playing Elite or

Funniest glitches/bugs that players have bumped into while playing Elite.

I once was fiddling around with the camera and discovered that if you move it too close to the NPC, they lose their head!

While taking a picture, the NPC said "Looking for something, Commander?" and I found the timing of it hilarious since they are missing a head... lol

There could be two prize types, 1st is if you have a picture or video of what happened, and second place is just the text story of what happened.

I know it's already been mentioned, but I absolutely love the seismic charge explosion sound! I remember when I first found out that Elite Dangerous had a seismic charge launcher, I was super eager to hear what it sounded like! Once I used it for the first time, I was not disappointed! Still my favourite sound to this day, although the Thargoid Titan sound in the Proteous wave cutscene did get close to passing it.

When I was a newer player, I didn't even know this option existed! So I was taking 50 or more jumps just to travel a short distance across the galaxy...
I was soooo happy when I discovered it could be done quicker!