Subj : Re: IDW Does Harlan Ellison
To   : All
From : angie
Date : Sun Jul 20 2014 18:02:16

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

On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 16:00:08 -0400, A Friend wrote in 
<200720141600080690%nope@noway.com>:
> 
> In article <MPG.2e35cdca6de8203f989703@news.eternal-september.org>,
> angie <angie.3@gmail.invalid> wrote:
> 
> > 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. ^_^
> 
> 
> Yes, I accidentally dropped the minus sign.  Surely that was worth two
> paragraphs. 
> 
> 
> > (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.

I wasn't trolling.

Followups set to remove Star Trek group, as that's now clearly the least 
relevant group.
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