Subj : Re: IDW Does Harlan Ellison
To   : All
From : angie
Date : Sun Jul 20 2014 14:00:27

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: angie.3@gmail.invalid
Subject: Re: IDW Does Harlan Ellison

On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 06:18:41 -0400, A Friend wrote in 
<180720140618410107%nope@noway.com>:

> 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. ^_^

(comics group dropped from followup-to -- has there ever been a comic 
based on Demon with a Glass Hand?)
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