Since talking about temperatures seems to be all the rage...

[Frostiken]

1) The 'default' temperature of Kerbin seems to be, like, 250-something degrees according to the thermometer. Uh...?

2) Parts 'cool off' extremely slowly to the point of absurdity. Even in atmosphere, even in *water*, parts seem to cool down only by radiative methods.

3) Certain parts, like jet engines, seem to handle heat quite oddly. In pre-1.0, the jet engines would heat up rapidly to a specific temperature but then stabilize. Post 1.0, jet engines very, very slowly heat up. The engines don't even glow anymore until you fly around for twenty minutes, and they keep bleeding their heat into connected parts all the while. I had landing gears that were nearly as hot as the engine exhaust.

[Reddeyfish]

1) that's in Kelvin. Kelvin scale is the exact same as Celcius, except that Kelvin starts with zero being Absolute Zero. (0 degrees C is 273 Kelvin).

[7499275]

1) that's in Kelvin. Kelvin scale is the exact same as Celcius, except that Kelvin starts with zero being Absolute Zero. (0 degrees C is 273 Kelvin).

We can assume considering it is that high, but that doesn't explain why everything is green and there is liquid water. 250K is still -23C. Water should freeze and the grass shouldn't be so green.

I'm not sure how you are measuring parts tempature cause the right click menu doesn't have that. Could you explain a little about how to so I can go do some testing myself.

I don't know a lot about jet engines but I assume it would be kinda like a car engine and take some time to warm up. So having it heat up kinda slowly seems resonable to me.

[Frostiken]

We can assume considering it is that high, but that doesn't explain why everything is green and there is liquid water. 250K is still -23C. Water should freeze and the grass shouldn't be so green.

I'm not sure how you are measuring parts tempature cause the right click menu doesn't have that. Could you explain a little about how to so I can go do some testing myself.

I don't know a lot about jet engines but I assume it would be kinda like a car engine and take some time to warm up. So having it heat up kinda slowly seems resonable to me.

Alt-F12 -> Physics -> Thermal -> Show information in parts info something or whatever.

[m4v]

Kerbin's water is made of players' tears.

[Madrias]

We can assume considering it is that high, but that doesn't explain why everything is green and there is liquid water. 250K is still -23C. Water should freeze and the grass shouldn't be so green.

I'm not sure how you are measuring parts tempature cause the right click menu doesn't have that. Could you explain a little about how to so I can go do some testing myself.

I don't know a lot about jet engines but I assume it would be kinda like a car engine and take some time to warm up. So having it heat up kinda slowly seems resonable to me.

Who says it's water? All we really have to go on is it's some form of liquid.

[Brotoro]

Kelvin?? Why do they keep making up terms starting with K?

[SpenSpaceCorp]

Kelvin is a very real unit of measurement haha! 0K is also known as absolute zero (the coldest anything can get). At 0K, atomic motion ceases. 273K = 0 degrees centigrade, with 1K = 1C.

(What if squad simply chose to use Kelvin not because it is considered "sciency" but simply because it starts with K?)