Is it just us or is it a little bit strange that things can be and frequently are better insulators than vacuum?
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we understand why, of course, it just feels a bit weird for some reason
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to clarify that's electrical insulator not thermal

it's hard to beat vacuum for thermal insulation
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@IceWolf sometimes we don't realize just how much our being an electrical engineer changes the way we use words
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@Felthry *grins*

I probably have that with programming things, I bet.

But yeah, even after that /entire cool infodump/ I was still thinking thermal.

...I think I kinda split it somehow when vacuum tubes got involved, thinking electrical there and thermal elsewhere. How? I don't know!

@starkatt seems that a lot of people did, hence the clarification!
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