Oy, how did you read just half of that sentence?
So while the temperature changes in the individual atoms, overall, there's not a huge net temperature loss because only those atoms on or really close to the surface will emit IR radiation that will escape into deep space (There is no medium through which to transmit heat through a vacuume, so space is only cold based on how long it takes the medium or atmosphere around you to release all it's IR energy ).
Granted though, this really isn't my area. BW came and cleared it up on the next page.
Myself and BW found that little forum way back when - and most of them do indeed know about HLP and the SCP, and what's better is that those members usually point the newbies towards them also. They also show them where they can download or buy the whole game from if they don't yet have it, and solve other's problems as best they can (answering or directing them to Kara's FAQ or these boards themselves etc)
A lot of them lurk and/or post occasionally here, and there is absolutely
no reason to disregard the lot of them as flamers and/or idiots. Sure there's the occasional
utter idiot such as godsboys and more recently ez_pk, but I'd say HLP proportionally has many times the number of flamers that little board does.
I'm slightly disappointed that peeps here are bringing up the old "universes don't mix!!!" argument though. It might be far fetched and occasionally a bit childish for the most part, but that topic has thus far been a lot of fun.
Simply put, if comparing the universes doesn't interest you, don't read the topic! (Especially considering this particular topic isn't even on the same forum
) - This is the stance I've held when the rare idiot bounds in with the shocking news that they will never actually fight because they don't actually exist and so we're all wasting our time and must be retarded.
Put it this way: I and I expect most of the others will stop discussing it as soon as it is no longer entertaining. (ie, when it gets all serious) Until then, it's just for fun.
Edit: On second thought, might it be better deleting this topic? Having tension (imagined or otherwise) between the FS community and other space sims is bad enough - but members of that board finding this topic that denounces them and their board as,...well....everything that they've been called here already, could only further hurt the FS community as a whole.
Besides, other than the fact that inactive topics get purged once every few weeks, the place really is just a mini-HLP anyway - with a larger influx of newbies.
