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from: WISEGUY
date: 2014-07-21 12:43:00
subject: Re: IDW Does Harlan Ellis

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: epwise@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: IDW Does Harlan Ellison

A Friend  wrote in news:200720141600080690%
nope@noway.com:

> In article ,
> angie  wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 06:18:41 -0400, A Friend wrote in 
>> :
>> 
>> > The mass of 70 billion electrons equals 6.38 x 10^20 kg.
>> 
>> No way. That would mean one single electron weighed millions of tons, 
>> which is obviously wrong.
>> 
>> A quick wikipedia lookup and use of a scientific calculator gives the 
>> correct answer: 6.376568037 x 10^-20 kg. Looks like your error was to 
>> forget a minus sign in the exponent. ^_^
> 
> 
> Yes, I accidentally dropped the minus sign.  Surely that was worth two
> paragraphs. 
> 
> 

Yes, learn to proofread.

>> (comics group dropped from followup-to -- has there ever been a comic 
>> based on Demon with a Glass Hand?)
> 
> 
> Yes, there has.  Published by DC in 1986 as part of its Science 
Fiction
> Graphics Novels series.
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/Demon-glass-Science-fiction-
graphic/dp/0930289099
> 
> Followups restored.  Next time you troll, please try to do so
> appropriately.
> 

Asking a question is not trolling.
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