Comments on: It Must Be A Drug Company Conspiracy…

By: Harvey

Harvey — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:04:49 +0000

Maybe it’s in a museum because it is quaint and archaic. Maybe they tried using it in the 28th Century and after causing numerous social catastrophes, people assembled and decided never to use the damn thing again.

By: Zach

Zach — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:18:44 +0000

Hey, Scott, didja notice that Infectious Lass had her TV debut this weekend on the Legion of Superheroes cartoon? Her, Chlorophyll Kid, Stone Boy, Color Kid, and Porcupine Pete founded the Legion of Substitute Heroes.

By: Zaratustra

Zaratustra — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:33:32 +0000

And, you know, Infectious Lass.

By: Really likes Batman Better

Really likes Batman Better — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:30:33 +0000

Just wondering –

what doesn’t the healing cure? Can you have off-label sales for a healing urn?

By: xrundog

xrundog — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:29:52 +0000

Well, isn’t that Bouncing Boy? If he bounced into all that glass what would happen to the poor expanded fool? He’s clearly helpless to act. My assumption is that the 30th century would be an age of scientific wonders. So, if the Urn is a sciemtific creation, why make it as an urn? It’s magic you say? That’s just confusing! And the crook has an electric motor from an old GE washer on his back. In the 30th century? Oh my achin’ head!

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:46:34 +0000

1) We might say he wasn’t being strictly literal, and it’s more like “it can boost the immune system into overdrive.”

2) They don’t use it because they have better medicine, so to them it’s the equivalent of a plant version of a pharmaceutical – it works, but it might give you some bad side effects (like an auto-immune condition which it *won’t* cure), and their 30th century developments are much safer and more effective.

Maybe the guy is stealing it for the collectible value rather than the medical value. As in, “this is the object which was responsible for the discovery of immunodiation therapy”.

By: Zach

Zach — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:24:22 +0000

Y’know, in the time it took him to think that paragraph he could have prevented the theft.

By: stavner

stavner — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:21:46 +0000

It’s in a museum because it’s no longer needed.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:40:18 +0000

Maybe the museum charged to have people come to be “healed”?

Nah, didn’t think so…

By: MrBuddwing

MrBuddwing — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:01:03 +0000

I’m reminded of a former co-worker who was convinced that the medical establishment will never truly cure cancer, because that would mean the medical industry would lose out on the tons of money it makes now treating cancer.

I can’t help feeling that if I were to come up with a cure for cancer that was nearly 100% effective and had virtually zero percent side effects, I would be wealthy beyond avarice. (I mean, if we’re going to say it’s only about the money …)