Celsius Only

[Temperamental]

Cant believe this game doesn't have the option to change from Celsius. That alone put a complete stop on me buying the game.

[Ral222]

It's not like you actually need to understand what the degree means, there's a corresponding red/green bar that indicates whether it's good temp or bad temp

[A6M Zero]

The description does say it's meant to be realistic, so why would it have fahrenheit?

[Romain]

Not that hard to multiply by 2 and add 30 to give you fairly accurate value.

At least for elementary grade students

[Savanik]

Or just get familiar with Celsius as a unit... 23 is room temp. 27 is a mite warm. 15 is darn cold. And 65 C is very much too hot as I just found out when I forgot to turn the cooler back on.

[Patola [Linux]]

Look at this like an opportunity to try and intuitively learn what the rest of the world uses as a de facto standard.

[ngx]

even NASA works with metric

[CryonicSuspension]

The thing is Kelvin and Celcius are the SI ( standard international ) units for temperature. Usually, only one unit is used as an SI unit but for whatever reason, temperature has two.

Questions in Advanced Chemistry are only given in Fahrenheit, when they want to annoy the student, and forced them to convert into the SI unit.

There's a forumla:

We use the formula to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit as °F = (9/5) °C+32.

Examples:

38 Celsius to Fahrenheit: °F = (9/5)(38)+32 = 100.4°F.

20 Celsius to Fahrenheit: °F = (9/5)(20)+32 = 68°F.


We were taught a speed math trick - a fast way to do a, slightly inaccurate calculation.

In the formula, ( in your mind ) round the 9 up to 10,

so that way you have 10/5 ( which is = 2 ),

so then you have F = 2 x C + 32 =

the bigger the number to convert, the greater the inaccuracy.

[CryonicSuspension]

There are no negative numbers on the Kelvin scale, because absolute zero is -273.15 Celcius, the coldest temperature possible.

So supposedly it's easier to sometimes work on the Kelvin scale. If you were working in outer space, I'd imagine that they use the Kelvin scale on the orbital platform, but I dunno.

Maybe NASA has a protocol for on the ISS etc ( international space station ).

[🎇TYPHOON🎇]

If you board a spacecraft (RL or simulation, doesn't matter) you need to be familiar with Celsius. Otherwise, you are in the wrong place and should stay at Walmart.

[CryonicSuspension]

In the UK, it was too expensive to change the road signs to metric, so the road signs were left in miles ( I left the UK in 1994, so I don't know if they ever changed the signs, probably not - the older generation would have had a hard time switching to metric road signs? ).

The UK had probably the most ancient weighing system, where people would measure their body weight in stones.

Science is always in metric in the UK.

I know what it's like to be in a country that uses mixed units - annoying.


Map of countries that use Metric versus Imperial:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/gnymvy/where_in_the_world_do_people_use_metric_and/


The States had one of the most costly errors when they built a space thing... I'll find the story because it's funny...

"When NASA Lost a Spacecraft Due to a Metric Math Mistake"

https://www.simscale.com/blog/nasa-mars-climate-orbiter-metric/


AI overview:

The stone (st) is a unit of measurement in the United Kingdom and Ireland that is equal to 14 pounds avoirdupois or approximately 6.35 kilograms. It is commonly used to measure body weight.
While the UK has adopted the metric system, imperial units are still widely used in the public. They are also still legal for certain measurements, such as: draught beer and cider, precious metals (by troy ounce), and milk in returnable containers.
In non-official settings, such as American-British boxing matches and horse racing, weights are often stated in both pounds and stones.


"The name "stone" derives from the historical use of stones for weights, a practice that dates back into antiquity."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_(unit)

[A6M Zero]

Originally posted by CryonicSuspension:

In the UK, it was too expensive to change the road signs to metric, so the road signs were left in miles ( I left the UK in 1994, so I don't know if they ever changed the signs, probably not - the older generation would have had a hard time switching to metric road signs? ).

They're still in mph, but body weight is now commonly done in both kilo and stone. In schools, though, they don't really teach any imperial measurements, and while people still talk about "a pint", it's really only in pubs. For the most part, even beer and cider is sold in ml volumes.

[Noobs_sammy]

agree, inability to use kelvin is annoying

[Laub]

Originally posted by Noobs_sammy:

agree, inability to use kelvin is annoying

Learn it. I never used kelvin before and can read it now. Where is the problem?

[Temperamental]

The problem is I'm not trying to go and learn something just to play a game. So the devs can simply add it or lose a player. Either is fine with me.

[Temperamental]

For all the other comments here... I will never be on a spaceship, I do not care which is better, or any other fun facts you have. Devs should be making their games all-inclusive or risk losing money and players. It wouldn't have taken much time to add the feature to convert Celsius. Here they lost money and a player that would have probably played any future games that made out of this one. Thier lose, not mine. There's plenty of other games out there that do and will.