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   Message 20,119 of 20,898   
   A Friend to All   
   Re: IDW Does Harlan Ellison   
   21 Jul 14 16:24:30   
   
   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    
   > >> <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.    
   > >    
   > >    
   >    
   > 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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