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

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. 


> (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.
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