Wii Fit Plus gets a date wth Europe

Sounds like the games calculations are pure bullshit.

Wonder if most people will buy it, use it for one day then put it away forever like the first one…

Most likely.

“Nintendo says that the game estimates a 70kg (154lb) person can burn 140,000 calories just doing the Hula Hoop exercise for half an hour.”

Running a six minute mile barely burns 1000 calories. That’s scientifically impossible.

WiiFit Hula Hoop exercise > Running. Apparently.

The original Eurogamer piece says 140kcal. Which is 140 calories, not 140,000.

140,000 calories. Thats like michael moore’s daily intake.

Damn weird across the pond figures. 140k over here means 140 thousand. What the heck does 140kcal mean then?

I thought 140,000 was high, but who am I to question Nintendo? They may send someone over to my house and I would disappear suddenly.

1 kcal = 1 kilocalorie = 1 kg. calorie = 1000 calories = 1 Calorie = 1000 c = 1 C

FFS

1 kg. calorie?? 1 kilogram of calorie???

“Outside of the US some countries give their nutritional data in kcal (kilocalories) instead of calories. Don’t worry, they’re the exact same. So that cookie that has 150 kcal, it really means it has 150 calories. But if you’re looking at it through a scientific way, 1000 calories are in 1 kilocalorie. But for nutritional data, they’re the same.”

Jesus. Can’t the world be on the same damn measuring system? Plus, I was told there would be no math involved. Someone lied.

How many doughnuts does it take to raise a the temperature of cup (US) of water by five kelvin given an ambient temperature of 85 Fahrenheit at 3 nautical miles above sea level?

The real kicker is that the way we measure calorific value is so flawed that the system is practically useless anyway.

Are the donuts heated or frozen?

The doughnuts have just been removed from a freezer with a storage temperature of 185 Delisle.

– Psycho.

For how long have the doughnuts been in the freezer and what is their core temperature?

Also it’s impossible to raise the temperature by 5 kelvin.

Who is Kelvin and what does he have to do with the matter?

I think we have all proven our nerdishness. Lets move on before stephanie assaults us for being so sexily smart.

The doughnuts have been stored in the freezer for three days. Their surface temperature is 185 Delisle as stated, but due to a biological reaction in the raspberry jam, the core temperature of the doughnuts is 692 Rankine.

So burned on the inside and frozen on the outside and you want me to lower the temperature with something hot?

In other news Wolfram Alpha doesn’t know what Delisle is and I still have work to do.

You know, I never realised just how many crazy ways there are of quantifying temperature. Crazy egotistical scientists.

Psycho, you should apply for a designer’s job at the Professor Layton developers

BTW what’s the initial temperature and volume of the cup of water

Everything you would possibly want to know about 1 cup of water.

It actually matters whether you take a US cup or Canadian cup. Silly scientists.

hehe, funnily enough I just finished the first game.

(Excellent little title, everyone should buy it)

The water is at the ambient temperature (85 kelvin) and the volume of the cup of water is 0 dBA.

That question was (or, to be precise, turned out to be) rhetorical

Glad you enjoyed Layton though

PS. Logic dictates that nothing can *raise* the temperature of water (already sitting at 29.4 degrees) by -268.15 degrees Celsius, only lower it. There’s a contradiction in terms that numbs the mind…