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ericghildyalyesterday at 8:33 PM2 repliesview on HN

I can't stop laughing at the first entry and this simple joke:

> he gained international notoriety for his claims that [...] mass and time are equivalent. (With regard to the second claim, it was suggested on the "sci.astro.amateur" newsgroup that his demise be observed with a gram of silence.)


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direwolf20yesterday at 11:42 PM

with some not–so–subtle changes, maybe he was onto something: angular momentum has the same units as energy.

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flopsamjetsamyesterday at 8:49 PM

ABIAN was always my friends and my favourite, from our time on Usenet! His all caps .sig with "equivalence of MASS and TIME" is something I will always treasure.