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 Wiseguy to All 
 Re: IDW Does Harlan Ellison 
 21 Jul 14 15:38:43 
 
From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: epwise@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: IDW Does Harlan Ellison

"Adam H. Kerman"  wrote in
news:lqj2s0$9b1$2@news.albasani.net: 

> Wiseguy  wrote:
>>A Friend  wrote:
>>>angie  wrote:
>>>>On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 06:18:41 -0400, A Friend wrote:
> 
>>>>>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.
> 
>>>>(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/093028909
>>>9 
> 
>>>Followups restored.  Next time you troll, please try to do so
>>>appropriately.
> 
>>Asking a question is not trolling.
> 
> How about screwing around with followups as you did? How about
> pretending that a troll pretending to be a female sockpuppet isn't a
> troll as you did? 
> 
> How about making your own calculation to show us how smart you are
> instead of taking potshots at someone else as you did?
> 

I did none of those things.  I was just stating a fact and commenting on 
the childish rants of "A Friend," who apparently has none of his own.  
If you're too stupid to understand that that's your problem.
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