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

In article , Wiseguy
 wrote:

> 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.


How profound.


> >> (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.


Deleting followups for no reason is, though.  So is deleting followups
without notice, as you tried to do here.  Inserting your sorry self
into a spent discussion just because you're a blockhead with an asshole
where his judgment should be may or may not be trolling.  It may simply
be a cry for help.
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