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In accord with my previous "yea or nay?" thread on colon cleansing I'm curious about osteopathic medicine (OM). Although it is unfair to sort of put it in the same vein as colon cleansing, my intent is not really to lump them together, these are just things I'm curious about at the moment....

Yeah, I've known about this for a long while, someone I know had a colon cleansing done and swore by it, but it just doesn't seem to add up. Your colon ought to be able to handle what you eat, most anything like bacteria and such that lives down there probably NEEDS to be there as a symbiotic relati...

I've been reading a bit about colon cleansing and I'm a bit skeptical. On the one hand, you'd think your colon could handle what you eat just fine, just based on it being evolved to do its job. On the other hand, no doubt our modern diets are deficient in fiber and such, so maybe colon cleansing cou...

His Divine Shadow wrote:

Vegi wrote:We've seen the return of The Cyborg Superman, Parallax, Superboy Prime, and the shocking return of The Anti-Monitor!!!

Sounds like this is going to suck.

Should they be read in the order you listed them?

OK, I understand that use of relative time descriptors is just to facilitate the discussion, but in actuality they are meaningless sans the universe. The universe is all of existence, time included, and the laws of physics are mathematical expressions which describe how it works. The universe does n...

So the laws of physics are just the way the universe works. No universe (since there was no "before" the Big Bang), the entire concept of "the way the universe works" becomes meaningless.

You'll have to bear with me as I try grasping this, it isn't an area of expertise for me.

This is definitely some weighty stuff to wrap one's brain around, and thanks to those who have replied so far. So "until" the Big Bang occured there was no before, now, or after, right? All existence was compressed into a single, dimensionless singularity with infinite density. I'm going t...

Would it also be accurate to say that "before" the Big Bang nothing really existed? Or was everything just a tiny compressed bit of matter?

Are there any scientific theories on what was going on pre-Big Bang? I assume there are. What are the main ones right now? This is something that was brought up in a thread I was reading on another forum and it got me curious.

Is there a one shot coming out today as well? Aren't 4 going to be released?

Wasn't the Surfer making a bunch of really big holes in the earth, or am I misremembering the movie? If so, maybe we can get some kind of quantification on the volume of the holes made and calculate a lower bound on his TK?

Sorry, assume this is the beginning of Season 7.

This time it's the puzzle box from the Hellraiser movies. A random Sunnydale civilian picks it up and takes it home. Over time people start either disappearing or being killed, and the Scoobies attention is gained. Assume it is Pinhead and his Cenobyte minions from the first two movies. How do the S...

A reminder to everyone that the next installment of the Sinestro Corps War goes on sale tomorrow with Green Lantern Corps #16 (and yes, it's spelled right this time Steve 8) :wink: ). In addition, the second Tales of Sinestro Corps one-shot is also on sale tomorrow, this one focusing upon the Cybor...

The same chap is also responsible for Tunguska, which was iirc, a multi-megaton event. Twenty megatons, off the top of my head? Also, didn't the Blackstaff do Krakatowa as well (which is considerably more impressive). I've heard that, but it seems to be pretty much every book series involving magic...

General Zod wrote:
This is the same group that went into battle against the Persians with no armor except a helmet. Thinking is not their strong point.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but they did think enough to build a wall of dead bodies in the movie didn't they?

Would the Spartans be able to fight them in shifts during the day? Maybe have 100 Spartans fight while the other 200 rest/eat, giving them 3 fighting shifts. This might at least be possible once the bodies start to pile up, giving the Spartans defensive structures to work with and slowing down the ...

Would the Spartans be able to fight them in shifts during the day? Maybe have 100 Spartans fight while the other 200 rest/eat, giving them 3 fighting shifts. This might at least be possible once the bodies start to pile up, giving the Spartans defensive structures to work with and slowing down the z...

I enjoyed this issue a lot. It seems to be setting things up and foreshadowing future plots. Tony does not seem to be gone for good. We'll see what he's planning later.

Also liked the interaction with the mortals with Thor, and his newfound friend.

Went to the Wake County Beekeepers Association meeting last night and David Tarpy, a professor of apiculture at NC State University, was giving a talk. He went over the CCD phenomenon. It seems like this Israeli virus is the most likely candidate, as it has been found in 95% of the dead colonies, an...

Scientists find clue in mystery of the vanishing bees (CNN) -- A virus found in healthy Australian honey bees may be playing a role in the collapse of honey bee colonies across the United States, researchers reported Thursday. Honey bees walk on a moveable comb hive at the Bee Research Laboratory, ...

That sounds about right.

For a GL ring:

Aragorn from LOTR
Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda (how can this little green guy not get one?) from SW

For a Sinestro ring:

Palpatine
Sauron (He likes rings anyway)

Yeah, the Reality gem isn't something you should mess with, unless you REALLY know what you're doing, or have the other Infinity gems working in concert with it. I'm pretty sure when Warlock had to break up the gauntlet he secretly gave Thanos the Reality gem, basically because he knew Thanos wouldn...

Ah, OK, I misunderstood. Sorry for the confusion on my part.