how many such partners does messi have at Barcelona? The point is of course if I'm 6'4 with a 40 inch vertical I would win more aerial balls but this is really not as much an advantage as simply fielding a good soccer player.

"Many "hold-up strikers" have none of these, and it shows"

so in other words good strikers.

not really. It sounds like a good strategy only if you believe a striker physically and literally needs to do a lot of holding up. Next time you watch a soccer match try to identify the number of times the traits described above help.

sure if you're not good enough to work the ball through the midfield you can pay a long ball strategy but the point man just needs to be a good player not necessarily a limited lumbering striker. The words we use to describe these strikers end up being euphemisms for what they can't do.

assuming there were no symptoms on what basis does a pediatrician go looking for a rare genetic disease? This is exactly why medical doctors ultimately do things that result in worse outcomes for patients but prevent against the type of lawsuit you are suggesting

this idea of big hold up strikers as something required or even helpful in soccer is only something that basketball fans will come up with. Sorry there is no significant back to the basket play in soccer. And for the minimal such play that exists lower body strength is far more important than size.

may be he is busy working on innovations that many people actually want or need. SoI don't know this guy he could be a bum but I am going to speak to a disturbing trend you appear to have subscribed to: The debatable idea that technological progress means consumption of more and more borderline useless data and…

The problem is this sound good in theory but in practice isn't much of an improvement since human beings are not robots. Why we must subjugate our complex humanity and lower the bar just to make these technologies appear to work is not clear to me.

No its like a mechanic saying that sometimes he wants to just take a walk. That is perfectly okay

there is the distinct possibility of course that the reason women aren't coding in the numbers we have arbitrarily determined they should isn't because we haven't spent millions telling them it's okay.

If its really this obvious why wasn't this article written 2 weeks ago?

I have faith in the a lot of things I just prefer not to mix my faith, or hobbies with my science and objective expectations. Reality is a bitch, it only serves one well to check in with it once in a while.

Sorry I have no come back for that... there's too much faith and hope and flowery everyone should reach for the stars to have a discussion. There is no argument against faith.

So you discounted the possibility of living on a gas planet... ok so that tells me you're not entirely crazy but it doesn't tell me you are approaching the habitability of Mars with any kind of objectivity. Listen people want to believe we would inhabit another planet one day, why? its not clear to me. The reason…

so to summarize "some things were done in the past therefore everything is possible in the future" .... ok got it.

Sorry there is any wedding industrial complex conspiracy to tell anyone anything. If it was this easy for businesses to convince you to do things we'd all be using our blackberrys on segways. Businesses mostly exist to fill an existing demand, or simply put out a product and hope and pray we happen to like it. They…

Getting married in itself isn't any more logical than throwing a huge party for it. If the idea is that humans should only do logical things then you have wrong species. We all have a long list of illogical things we love and cherish for reasons that are not immediately clear or explainable. Picking on one of such…

This is up there with 'I've been to every baseball park in the US but NEVER been on the field.'

actually eradicating poverty is a far tractable problem than a self sustaining Martian colony. I'm glad to know you draw the line at gas planets though.