Reply #87: My English, Sir, Could Not Be More Plain

[The Magistrate]

You claim to have taken a college physics course, and so should be sufficiently conversant with the differences between chemical and mechanical energies and fission and fusion energies to obviate the need for rehashing the matter on a level suited to a primary school.

Similarly, what you are requesting in your opening above amounts to a request for a citation proving that a billion is a greater quantit than ten, or that a ton is a greater weight than a pound. If you wish a demonstration, pick up a sack of potatoes inthe produce aisle, then go out to the parking lot and attempt to pick up an automobile. You will find the energy sufficient for the former is useless in attempting the latter.

"It's easy to tell who isn't paying attention in class."